AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 200W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock2475MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 +786%

29.15 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2024

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 40

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1920 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2475 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

480.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1792

Shading Units

5888

112

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

36 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

158.4 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

455.4 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

29.15 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

29.15 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

455.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

AD104

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

AD104-2XX-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

5 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

6.5

Shader Model

6.8

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