AMD Radeon RX 570X vs AMD Radeon R9 285

VS

AMD Radeon RX 570X

AMD Radeon R9 285

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570X 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 570X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1244MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 570X +54%

5.095 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570X

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Sep 2014

Polaris

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1168 MHz

Base Clock

-

1244 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/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)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

39.81 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

159.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

5.095 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

5.095 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

318.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

190W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

Tonga

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

232 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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