VIA Castle Rock vs GeForce GTX 285M SLI

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking682not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.92no data
ArchitectureG9x (2007−2010)no data
GPU code nameN10E-GTXCLE266
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date2 March 2009 (15 years ago)1 January 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2563
Core clock speed576 MHz2 MHz
Number of transistors1508 Millionno data
Manufacturing process technology55 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattno data

Form factor & compatibility

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Laptop sizelargeno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3no data
Maximum RAM amount2 GBno data
Memory bus width256 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1020 MHzno data
Shared memory-+

API compatibility

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DirectX10no data
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 March 2009 1 January 2003

GTX 285M SLI has an age advantage of 6 years.

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