AMD Radeon R9 285 officially announced – 3DNews

As expected, the company Advanced Micro Devices publicly announced new graphics cards based on the middle-class GPU Tonga.

First of all, we are talking about AMD Radeon R9 285. At the presentation were published all basic technical specs, which look like this:

Technical data indirectly confirm the presence in Tonga 2048 stream processors, but in the version of Radeon R9 285 involved only 1,792 of them. In some ways, the new product is a step backwards compared to the Radeon R9 280. It’s not just about memory bandwidth, but also somewhat less computing power and speed of scene – the effect of reduced maximum frequency of GPU. But the level of heat actually fell, though not as much as expected. TDP Radeon R9 285 is 190 watts vs. 250 watts predecessor. Of course, the new supports both DirectX 12 and Mantle.

obvious advantage Radeon R9 285 is the recommended retail price is only $ 249, while the R9 280 was estimated at the time of the announcement of a $ 279 buy a new solution AMD will be starting from the second of September. Then there were the more powerful model, Radeon R9 285X. It will have a 384-bit memory bus and 2048 stream processors active.

Coloring body style AMD Radeon

gamers on the space theme will surely enjoy the offer AMD : Buying graphics cards series R9 company offers a small package, which includes the game Alien Isolation and access to Star Citizen, when the development of the latter will be finished. Players Star Citizen can use a unique model of a spacecraft called Mustang Omega R9.

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