Radeon HD 8570 OEM vs Radeon R9 285

Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8570 OEM
Radeon R9 285
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Sep 2014
Radeon R9 285

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    100%
  • Radeon R9 285
    556%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8570 OEM

140 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 285 .
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 285

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 456% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 285

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 285

The Radeon R9 285 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R9 285
GPU NameOland ()vsTonga (Tonga PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size90 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders320vs1792
Compute Units5vs28
Core clock730 MHzvs918 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs20vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R9 285
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8570 OEMRadeon R9 285
TDP50 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs2 Sep 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    5.84 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 285
    29.38 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    14.60 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 285
    102.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    28.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 285
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    467.20 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 285
    3290.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 8570 OEM
    1940
  • Radeon R9 285
    10790

Points (higher is better)