AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470D to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (120W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +31%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2016

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

28

-

1792

Shading Units

1792

112

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 PROD

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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