AMD Radeon R9 285 Review feat. Powercolor

September 2, 2014 | 12:59

Tags: #freesync #gcn #mantle #powertune #r9-285 #radeon #trueaudio #zerocore

Companies: #amd #powercolor

[h]Powercolor Radeon R9 285 - Overclocking[h]
Using MSI Afterburner, we first pushed the card's power limit to its maximum of 120%. No voltage increments were possible so we just increased the frequency until things became unstable. The highest stable core clock was 1,030MHz, a 9 percent gain over Powercolor's frequency and 12 percent faster than stock. The memory maxed out at 1.55GHz (6.2GHz effective), which is a 13 percent gain which gave the card a new total memory bandwidth of 198.4GB/sec. You can see the results of our overclocking efforts below.

Overclocking - Battlefield 4

1,920 x 1,080, DirectX 11, 'Ultra' Settings

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB (OC)
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
    • 47
    • 57
    • 45
    • 55
    • 40
    • 49
    • 39
    • 47
    • 38
    • 47
    • 38
    • 46
    • 37
    • 48
    • 36
    • 42
    • 32
    • 38
    • 30
    • 37
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10
20
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Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
  • Average

Overclocking - Crysis 3

1,920 x 1,080, 0x AA, 16x AF, 'Very High' Settings

  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB (OC)
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
    • 50
    • 62
    • 46
    • 55
    • 43
    • 52
    • 40
    • 50
    • 38
    • 49
    • 37
    • 48
    • 36
    • 45
    • 35
    • 43
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Frames Per Second
  • Minimum
  • Average

Overclocking - Unigine Valley 1.0

1,920 x 1,080, 0x AA, 'Ultra' Quality

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB (OC)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
    • 3919
    • 3914
    • 2758
    • 2667
    • 2559
    • 2497
    • 2444
    • 1647
    • 1647
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4000
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  • Score

Overclocking - Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, 0x AA, 'Ultra' Quality

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB (OC)
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
    • 2135
    • 1760
    • 1669
    • 1657
    • 1547
    • 1508
    • 1508
    • 1284
    • 1263
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  • Score

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