GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 8670D

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1011not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.95no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameDevastatorGT200B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date12 March 2013 (11 years ago)15 January 2009 (15 years 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 cores384240
Core clock speed844 MHz648 MHz
Boost clock speed950 MHzno data
Number of transistors1,303 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology32 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt204 Watt
Texture fill rate22.8051.84
Floating-point processing power0.7296 TFLOPS0.7085 TFLOPS
ROPs832
TMUs2480

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 6-pin

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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared1 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared512 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1242 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data159.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2013 15 January 2009
Chip lithography 32 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 204 Watt

HD 8670D has an age advantage of 4 years, a 71.9% more advanced lithography process, and 104% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8670D and GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.


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