Radeon R7 450 OEM vs R9 285

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking315not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.76no data
Power efficiency6.26no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameTongaCape Verde
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 September 2014 (10 years ago)30 June 2016 (8 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$249 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1792512
Core clock speed918 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million1,500 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate102.829.60
Floating-point processing power3.29 TFLOPS0.9472 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs11232

Form factor & compatibility

Information on 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length221 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz1125 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s72 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.21x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.4a, 1x DisplayPort 1.2
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model6.56.5 (5.1)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1 (1.2)
Vulkan1.2.1701.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2014 30 June 2016
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 65 Watt

R7 450 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, and 192.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 285 and Radeon R7 450 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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