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Radeon R9 285 and Radeon R9 270 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 285 vs Radeon R9 270

Radeon R9 285
6880
Radeon R9 270
4435

Radeon R9 285

Radeon R9 270


Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name
Tonga
Curacao

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
September 2014
November 2013

Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1 x 6-pin

Boost clock speed
-
925 MHz

Core clock speed
918 MHz
-

Floating-point performance
3,290 gflops
2,368 gflops

Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm

Number of transistors
5,000 million
2,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
1280

Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
150 Watt

Texture fill rate
102.8
74.00

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
-

Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
179.2 GB/s

Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

Eyefinity
-
1

HDMI
+
+

DisplayPort support
-
+

DirectX
12 (12_0)
DirectX® 12

Mantle
-
-

OpenCL
2.1
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.6

Shader Model
6.5
5.1

Vulkan
1.2.170
+

AppAcceleration
-
-

CrossFire
-
1

DDMA audio
-
+

Enduro
-
-

FreeSync
-
1

HD3D
-
+

LiquidVR
-
1

PowerTune
-
-

TressFX
-
1

TrueAudio
-
+

UVD
-
+

ZeroCore
-
-