NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition vs ATI FirePro M5725

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition and ATI FirePro M5725 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

ATI FirePro M5725

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition

2.4x more texture fill rate: 51.8 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
Around 64% better floating-point performance: 708.5 gflops vs 432.0 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
Around 55% higher memory clock speed: 2484 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Texture fill rate	51.8 GTexel / s vs 21.6 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	708.5 gflops vs 432.0 gflops
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	2484 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M5725

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 675 MHz vs 648 MHz
Around 33% higher pipelines: 320 vs 240
5.8x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 204 Watt

Core clock speed	675 MHz vs 648 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 240
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 204 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Mac Edition	ATI FirePro M5725
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale
Code name	GT200B	M96
Launch date	15 January 2009	9 January 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	648 MHz	675 MHz
Floating-point performance	708.5 gflops	432.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	240	320
Texture fill rate	51.8 GTexel / s	21.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	204 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million	514 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	159.0 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	512 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2484 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3