GeForce RTX 4060 vs Radeon R9 285X

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated49
Place by popularitynot in top-1002
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data100.00
Power efficiencyno data32.37
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTongaAD107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)18 May 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores20483072
Core clock speed1002 MHz1830 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2460 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt115 Watt
Texture fill rate128.3236.2
Floating-point processing power4.104 TFLOPS15.11 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs12896
Tensor Coresno data96
Ray Tracing Coresno data24

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 4.0 x8
Length267 mm240 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 12-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount3 GB8 GB
Memory bus width384 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz2125 MHz
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/s272.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.13.0
Vulkan1.2.1701.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 115 Watt

RTX 4060 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 73.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 285X and GeForce RTX 4060. We've got no test results to judge.


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