AMD Radeon R9 285 Review — Tom’s Hardware
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On paper, the new Tonga-based R9 285 looks to be slightly slower than the R9 280 it is intended to replace, but there’s more than meets the eye.
Early Verdict
A good $250 replacement for the Radeon R9 280 that doesn’t up the ante when it comes to game performance, but adds new features and lower power usage to the mix.
Pros
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Performance on par with Radeon R9 280. New features including TrueAudio and bridgeless CrossFire. Lower power usage and improved performance-per-watt.
Cons
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Lower raw memory bandwidth than Radeon R9 280 that may result in slightly lower performance in some cases. 2 GB of onboard RAM instead of 3 GB. Does not notably increase performance over Radeon R9 280 on average.
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The Radeon’s GCN Is Updated Again: The Tonga GPU
When we first heard about the new Radeon R9 285, our first impression was pessimistic. The new Tonga GPU sports specifications that are nearly identical compared to the Radeon R9 280, but with a slightly lower GPU clock and a sizable memory bandwidth deficit thanks to its thinner 256-bit memory interface.
While the Radeon R9 285’s onboard RAM runs at a higher 1375 MHz clock, the net result is 176 GB/s of memory bandwidth — significantly less than the 240 GB/s memory bandwidth of the R9 280. In addition, the R9 285 has 2 GB of RAM, whereas the R9 280 has 3 GB.
AMD Radeon R9 280
AMD Radeon R9 285
AMD Radeon R9 280X
The tale of the tape is not kind to the Radeon R9 285. Yes, the new card’s power usage has gone down significantly compared to its predecessor, but from a gaming perspective, that would be small consolation in exchange for lower performance. If raw specifications were all that mattered, and if the Tonga graphics processor was merely a re-spin of the Tahiti GPU in the Radeon R9 280, we wouldn’t have a lot of nice things to say about the new Radeon R9 285.
After testing it, though, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the Radeon R9 285 has a few tricks up its sleeve thanks to some re-engineering of the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.
Despite what its specifications may suggest, Tonga is not a spin on the Tahiti GPU in the Radeon R9 280 and 280X. Rather, it is a new and condensed version of the Hawaii GPU in the Radeon R9 290 and 290X. Among other things this means it has four times the number of asynchronous compute engines, that’s eight instead of the Radeon R9 280/280X’s two. According to AMD this can improve tessellation performance from two to four times, and facilitates effects that rely on GPU compute. In addition, the Radeon R9 285 inherits the 290 series’ quad-shader layout, allowing four primitives to be rendered per clock cycle instead of two. Also note the CrossFire XDMA block, which provides the possibility of multi-card operation without a bridge connector.
Tonga features four shader engines, each carrying seven compute units (CUs).
Just like previous GCN-based GPUs, every CU is host to 64 shaders and four texture units, adding up to a total of 1792 shaders and 112 texture units in the Radeon R9 285. These numbers are equal to the cut-down Tahiti chip in the Radeon R9 280, but the arrangement of resources is different.
Speaking of cut-down, we’re told that Tonga is slightly handicapped for use in the 285, and that the uncut GPU has the potential to utilize eight compute units per shader engine for a total of 2048 shaders and 128 Texture units. If this sounds familiar, it’s because this is the same number of resources available in the Radeon R9 280X. Perhaps AMD has some bigger plans for the Tonga GPU in the future.
Regardless, AMD did scale back some parts of the new GPU. Each of the four shader engines carries two render back-ends — instead of four as per the Radeon R9 290 series. Each of these is capable of rendering four full-color pixels per clock, for a total of 32 pixels per clock cycle in total.
This is half of what Hawaii can process but equals the Tahiti GPU in the Radeon 280 and 280X.
Improvements are always welcome but with the memory interface cut by a third compared to the Radeon R9 280, AMD needed to accomplish some magic to compensate for that 27% drop in available bandwidth. The company’s solution was to enable the GPU to read and write frame buffer color data in a lossless compressed format, a technique that it claims can deliver 40% higher memory bandwidth efficiency. We’re somewhat skeptical that this will completely compensate for the Radeon R9 285’s lower available bandwidth compared to the Radeon R9 280, but we’ll see what the benchmarks have to say about it.
That’s not all that’s been improved over the Hawaii GPU in the Radeon 290 series, though. Tonga boasts other new features such as the ability to process instructions in parallel between SIMD lanes, improved compute task scheduling algorithms, and even new 16-bit floating point and integer instructions for compute and media processing tasks.
Of course, Tonga has inherited Hawaii’s fixed-function hardware, too, such as TrueAudio (AMD’s new audio processor) and project FreeSync (the open-source answer to Nvidia’s G-Sync) support. In addition, AMD claims to have revamped the unified video decoder (UVD) and video coding engine (VCE) with improvements specific to the Tonga GPU. The Radeon R9 285’s UVD now supports H.264 playback at high frame rates on 4K displays, and the VCE has been improved with faster performance in addition to 4K resolution support. AMD claims a 31%-47% transcoding advantage over the GeForce GTX 760, but we’d prefer to run our own tests on that so expect some in-depth coverage from us in the future.
For the first time, AMD has added the ability to specify the maximum fan speed in the Overdrive overclocking utility. This means that users who prioritize noise can set the maximum fan RPMs, and the driver will automatically adjust clock rates to fit power and heat into the user-specified envelope.
This feature will be available in the 14.8 release driver, but only to models with second- and third-iterations of GCN processors: the Radeon R7 260, 260X, R9 285, R9 290, and R9 290X. This functionality didn’t seem to work in our pre-release beta driver, unfortunately.
Those are the updated details we have to share from an architectural perspective, now let’s get down to the nitty gritty: the test hardware, specifically the Radeon R9 285 card.
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Radeon R9 285 [in 2 benchmarks]
Radeon R9 285
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- Interface PCIe 3.
0 x16 - Core clock speed 918 MHz
- Max video memory 2 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 5500 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Summary
AMD started Radeon R9 285 sales 2 September 2014 at a recommended price of $249. This is a GCN 3.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 176.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 221 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 190 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
17.05%
of a leader’s which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
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General info
Some basic facts about Radeon R9 285: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance rating | 236 | |
| Value for money | 6.34 | |
| Architecture | GCN 3.0 (2014−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Tonga | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 2 September 2014 (8 years old) |
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| Launch price (MSRP) | $249 | |
| Current price | $295 (1.2x MSRP) | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
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Technical specs
Radeon R9 285’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon R9 285’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1792 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 918 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 5,000 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 190 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 102. |
of 969.9 (h200 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 3,290 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon R9 285’s compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it’s interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 221 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon R9 285: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 5500 MHz | of 22400 (GeForce RTX 4080) |
| Memory bandwidth | 176.0 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon R9 285. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort | |
| HDMI | + |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon R9 285, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon R9 285. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
R9 285
17.05
- Passmark
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
R9 285
6680
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature seemingly made of lava. Using 1920×1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic enough graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
R9 285
8570
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of Radeon R9 285. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 391 Mh/s | |
| Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) | 20. |
Is Radeon R9 285 good for gaming?
Let’s see how good Radeon R9 285 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon R9 285 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD Radeon RX 6400
109.56
AMD Radeon RX 5300
109.27
AMD Radeon RX 570
104.34
AMD Radeon R9 285
100
NVIDIA T600
97.42
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
94.25
AMD Radeon R9 380
93. 43
Radeon R9 285 NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 285 by NVIDIA is T600, which is slower by 3% and lower by 7 positions in our rating.
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Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon R9 285:
NVIDIA T1000
115.37
NVIDIA T1000 8 GB
113.26
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti
112.55
AMD Radeon R9 285
100
NVIDIA T600
97.42
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
94.25
NVIDIA GeForce MX570 A
90. 38
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon R9 285 according to our statistics.
FX
6300
6.4%
Core i5
4460
4.6%
FX
8350
3.7%
Core i5
3570
3.7%
Core i5
3470
2.7%
FX
8120
1.8%
Xeon E5
2689
1.8%
FX
8320
1. 8%
Core i3
10100F
1.8%
Core i7
3770
1.8%
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Radeon R9 285 video card [in 2 benchmarks]
Radeon R9 285
- PCIe 3.0 x16 interface
- Core clock 918 MHz
- Video memory size 2 GB
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory frequency 5500 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Description
AMD started Radeon R9 285 sales on September 2, 2014 at a suggested price of $249. This is a desktop video card based on the GCN 3.0 architecture and 28 nm manufacturing process, primarily aimed at gamers. It has 2 GB of GDDR5 memory at 5.5 GHz, and coupled with a 256-bit interface, this creates a bandwidth of 176.0 GB / s.
In terms of compatibility, this is a dual-slot PCIe 3.0 x16 card. The length of the reference version is 221 mm. The connection requires two 6-pin additional power cables, and the power consumption is 190 W.
It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of
17. 05%
from the leader, which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
GeForce RTX
4090
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General information
Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of the Radeon R9 285, as well as when sales started and cost at the time. nine0095
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Features
Radeon R9 285’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak of Radeon R9 285’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
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Compatibility and dimensions
Information on Radeon R9 285 compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply).
6.3
Benchmark tests
These are the results of Radeon R9 285 rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks. The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment. nine0095
Overall benchmark performance
This is our overall performance rating. We regularly improve our algorithms, but if you find any inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in the comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
R9 285
17.05
- Passmark
- 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Passmark
This is a very common benchmark included in the Passmark PerformanceTest package. He gives the card a thorough evaluation, running four separate tests for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11, and 12 (the latter being done at 4K resolution whenever possible), and a few more tests using DirectCompute.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
R9 285
6680
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests showing a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature that appears to be made of lava. Using resolution 1920×1080, Fire Strike shows quite realistic graphics and is quite demanding on hardware.
Benchmark coverage: 13%
R9 285
8570
Mining hashrates
Radeon R9 285 performance in cryptocurrency mining. Usually the result is measured in mhash / s — the number of millions of solutions generated by the video card in one second.
| Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) | 391 Mh/s | |
| Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) | 20.3 Mh/s |
Is the Radeon R9 285 good for gaming?
FPS in popular games on Radeon R9 285, as well as compliance with system requirements. Remember that the official requirements of the developers do not always match the data of real tests.
Relative performance
Radeon R9 285 overall performance compared to its closest competitors in desktop graphics cards.
AMD Radeon RX 6400
109.56
AMD Radeon RX 5300
109.27
AMD Radeon RX 570
104.34
AMD Radeon R9 285
100
nine0128 NVIDIA T600
97. 42
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
94.25
AMD Radeon R9 380
93.43
Competitor from NVIDIA
We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon R9 285 from NVIDIA is T600, which is slower by 3% and lower by 7 positions in our rating on average.
T600
nine0186
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Here are some NVIDIA Radeon R9 285 closest competitors:
NVIDIA T1000
115.37
NVIDIA T1000 8 GB
113.26
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti
112.55
AMD Radeon R9 285
nine0165 100
NVIDIA T600
97.42
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
94.25
NVIDIA GeForce MX570A
90. 38
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280
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GeForce GTX
690
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P106
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Recommended Processors
According to our statistics, these processors are most often used with the Radeon R9 285.
FX
6300
6.4%
Core i5
4460
4.6%
FX
8350
3.7%
Core i5
3570
3.7%
Core i5
3470
2.7%
FX
8120
nine0002 1.8%
Xeon E5
2689
1.8%
FX
8320
1.8%
Core i3
10100F
1.8%
Core i7
3770
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