Radeon R9 285X vs GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

Radeon R9 285X
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: UNRELEASED
Radeon R9 285X
GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 2 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 285X

50 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal) .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R9 285XGeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
GPU NameTonga (Tonga XT)vsGP102 (GP102)
Fab Process28 nmvs16 nm
Die Size366 mm²vs471 mm²
Transistors5,000 millionvs12,000 million
Shaders2048vs3584
Compute Units32vs28
Core clock1002 MHzvs1417 MHz
ROPs32vs96
TMUs128vs224

Memory Configuration

Radeon R9 285XGeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5X
Bus Width384 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
vs1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs12288 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R9 285XGeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
TDP200 wattsvs250 watts
Release DateUNRELEASEDvs2 Aug 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R9 285X
    32.10 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    136.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R9 285X
    128.30 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    317.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R9 285X
    264.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    480.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R9 285X
    4104.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    10157.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better