GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs GeForce GT 720 384SP

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
GeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Mar 2014
GeForce GT 720 384SP
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 720 384SP

185 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GT 720 384SP
GPU NameGT200B (G200-350-B3)vsGK208 ()
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs87 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvsunknown
Shaders240vs384
Compute Units10vs2
Core clock648 MHzvs967 MHz
ROPs32vs8
TMUs80vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GT 720 384SP
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width512 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GT 720 384SP
TDP204 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2009vs27 Mar 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    20.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    7.74 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    51.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    15.47 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    159.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    708.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 720 384SP
    742.70 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better