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Radeon R9 285 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

The Radeon R9 285 features core speeds of 918 MHz on the GPU, and 1375 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which uses a 6 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 2200 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2250 MHz on this specific model. It features 1024 SPUs along with 64 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 107 Watts
Radeon R9 285 190 Watts
Difference: 83 Watts (78%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 285 should in theory perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 6500 XT in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 285 176000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT 147456 MB/sec
Difference: 28544 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be much (approximately 37%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R9 285. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 140800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 285 102816 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 37984 (37%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT should be much (about 140%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 285, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT 70400 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 285 29376 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 41024 (140%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 285 Radeon RX 6500 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year September 2014 January 2022
Code Name Tonga PRO Navi 24 XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 918 MHz 2200 MHz
Memory Speed 5500 MHz 4500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 190 watts 107 watts
Bandwidth 176000 MB/sec 147456 MB/sec
Texel Rate 102816 Mtexels/sec 140800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 29376 Mpixels/sec 70400 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1792 1024
Texture Mapping Units 112 64
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 6 nm
Transistors 5000 million 5400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.4 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 285

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Radeon RX 6500 XT

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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