Switch GPU and Radeon R9 285X - video card comparison

Switch GPU

Radeon R9 285X

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)

GPU code name

GM20B

Tonga

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2017

-

Interface

IGP

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

768 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

1002 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

20 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,000 million

5,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

256

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

15 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.29

128.3

Memory type

DDR4

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

3200 MHz

5.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

264.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

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

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (12_0)

CUDA

5.3

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5

Vulkan

1.1.126

1.2.170