GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking658not rated
Place by popularity30not in top-100
Power efficiency20.92no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeGT200B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date26 October 2017 (7 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 cores512240
Core clock speedno data648 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt204 Watt
Texture fill rateno data51.84
Floating-point processing powerno data0.7085 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data80

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data1 GB
Memory bus widthno data512 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1242 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 data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 15 January 2009
Chip lithography 14 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 204 Watt

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 8 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 1260% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

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