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Radeon R9 285 and Radeon Sky 500 - video card comparison


Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 285 vs Radeon Sky 500

Radeon R9 285
6880
Radeon Sky 500
4906

Radeon R9 285

Radeon Sky 500


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

GPU code name
Tonga
Pitcairn

Market segment
Desktop
Desktop

Release date
September 2014
March 2013

Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0

Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16

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

Core clock speed
918 MHz
950 MHz

Floating-point performance
3,290 gflops
2,432 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
76.00

Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB

Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit

Memory clock speed
5.5 GB/s
4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth
176.0 GB/s
154 GB/s

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

DisplayPort count
-
1

Dual-link DVI support
-
1

HDMI
+
-

DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)

OpenCL
2.1
1.2

OpenGL
4.6
4.6

Shader Model
6.5
5.1

Vulkan
1.2.170
1.2.131