GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs GeForce GTX 680

GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2009
GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
GeForce GTX 680
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 680
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Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 680
    362%

Relative performance

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 680

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 262% higher average synthetic performance.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 680

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 680

The GeForce GTX 680 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GTX 680
GPU NameGT200B (G200-350-B3)vsGK104 (GK104-400-A2)
Fab Process55 nmvs28 nm
Die Size470 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders240vs1536
Compute Units10vs8
Core clock648 MHzvs1006 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GTX 680
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width512 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1242 MHz
2484 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 285 Mac EditionGeForce GTX 680
TDP204 wattsvs195 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2009vs22 Mar 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    20.70 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    32.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    51.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    129.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    159.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 680
    192.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    708.50 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 680
    3090.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition
    2950
  • GeForce GTX 680
    10700

Points (higher is better)