AMD Radeon RX 560 vs AMD Radeon R9 285

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560

AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +26%

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1175 MHz

Base Clock

-

1275 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

28

-

1024

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

81.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

2.611 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

2.611 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

163.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

190W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 21

GPU Name

Tonga

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

5 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.5

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