AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon HD 6570

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6570 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +427%

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6570

0.624 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

Radeon HD 6570

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2011

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

6

1792

Shading Units

480

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.200 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Turks

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

Turks PRO (215-0803002)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

190W

TDP

60W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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