AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon RX 580X

VS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X +87%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

Radeon RX 580X

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

28

Compute Units

36

1792

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

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

Board Design

190W

TDP

185W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 6 GB

2

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

3

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti 6 GB

4

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU116

5

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA TITAN V

6

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon R9 280

7

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

8

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Limited Edition

9

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs ATI Radeon HD 4730 OEM

10

AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870

Related News

1

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

2

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products

3

NVIDIA Informs Brands of Reduced Supply for RTX 40 Series GPUs

4

Only 3 Weeks Left! AMD Zen5 Launching Soon

5

Ilya Departs OpenAI to Launch New Company Aiming at Superintelligence!

6

Comprehensive Overview of AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen5 Desktop CPUs

7

Intel May Increase Base Frequencies for Arrow Lake-S / H / HX, High-End Chips to Reach 3GHz or Higher

8

It's 2024: This Company Released a Laptop Supporting DOS and Windows 95

9

AMD's Strix Halo Supports Up to 128GB Memory, Clearly Designed for AI Large Language Models

10

AMD to Launch Advanced Ryzen AI PRO Series Soon