AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 vs AMD Radeon R9 285

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 and AMD Radeon R9 285 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

AMD Radeon R9 285

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 6

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 January 2018 vs 2 September 2014
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 285

Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 597 vs 320
6.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6680 vs 1015

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	597 vs 320
PassMark - G3D Mark	6680 vs 1015

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 6
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 285

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

320

597

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1015

6680

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R9 285
PassMark - G2D Mark	320	597
PassMark - G3D Mark	1015	6680
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		72.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1474.632
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		6.369
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		91.954
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		391.399
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6474
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3043
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2782
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6474
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3043
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2782
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2778

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6	AMD Radeon R9 285
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5th gen	GCN 3.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	Tonga
Launch date	7 January 2018	2 September 2014
Place in performance rating	448	445
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$249
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	384
Transistor count	4500 million	5,000 million
Core clock speed		918 MHz
Floating-point performance		3,290 gflops
Pipelines		1792
Texture fill rate		102.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		190 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.0
Vulkan
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		221 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		176.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		5500 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5
Technologies
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)