[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.
  
    
    
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
      
 
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        Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB (OC)
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
      
 
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
      
 
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        Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
      
 
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
      
 
    
    
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        AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
      
 
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
      
 
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        Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB (OC)
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
      
 
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        Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
      
 
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
      
 
    
    
    Frames Per Second
    
   
 
  
    
    
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
      
 
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        Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB (OC)
      
 
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
      
 
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        Powercolor Radeon R9 285 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
      
 
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        AMD Radeon R7 265 2GB
      
 
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        Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
      
 
    
    
    Score (higher is beter)
    
   
 
  
    
    
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        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
      
 
    
    
    Score (higher is beter)
    
   
 
     
    
    
        
            
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