Radeon R9 285 and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 285 vs Radeon RX 590
Radeon R9 285
6880
Radeon RX 590
9695
Radeon R9 285
Radeon RX 590
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Tonga
Polaris 30
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2014
November 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1545 MHz
Core clock speed
918 MHz
1469 MHz
Floating-point performance
3,290 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1792
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
190 Watt
175 Watt
Texture fill rate
102.8
222.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
2.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
+