Radeon 610M vs R9 285X

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated786
Place by popularitynot in top-10037
Power efficiencyno data13.24
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameTongaDragon Range
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores2048128
Core clock speed1002 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate128.317.60
Floating-point processing power4.104 TFLOPS0.5632 TFLOPS
ROPs324
TMUs1288
Ray Tracing Coresno data2

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 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount3 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width384 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1375 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth264.0 GB/sno data
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 1.2Portable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.2.1701.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 610M has a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 1233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 285X and Radeon 610M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R9 285X is a desktop card while Radeon 610M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon R9 285X
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