AMD Radeon R9 285X vs AMD Radeon RX 470D

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285X

AMD Radeon RX 470D

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 R9 285X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 211.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 470D 's Advantages

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (120W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285X

4.104 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470D +5%

4.322 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285X

VS

Radeon RX 470D

Graphics Card

Unknown

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

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

28

-

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

128.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

135.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.322 TFLOPS

4.104 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.322 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

270.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

120W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

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

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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