ATI Radeon X1300 XT AGP vs R9 285

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking312not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation8.57no data
Power efficiency6.31no data
ArchitectureGCN 3.0 (2014−2019)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameTongaRV530
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date2 September 2014 (10 years ago)12 August 2006 (18 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 cores1792no data
Core clock speed918 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors5,000 million157 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)190 Watt22 Watt
Texture fill rate102.82.000
Floating-point processing power3.29 TFLOPSno data
ROPs324
TMUs1124

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 x16AGP 8x
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 typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount2 GB256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1375 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth176.0 GB/s12.8 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 VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model6.53.0
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL2.1N/A
Vulkan1.2.170N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 2 September 2014 12 August 2006
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 190 Watt 22 Watt

R9 285 has an age advantage of 8 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

ATI X1300 XT AGP, on the other hand, has 763.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R9 285 and Radeon X1300 XT AGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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