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Radeon R9 285 Clock Speeds and Pricing Revealed

It's confirmed the GeForce GTX 760 really is on AMD's crosshair's with the Radeon R9 285. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, which is designed to offer "Tahiti" like performance at the energy-efficiency levels comparable to NVIDIA's GK104, the R9 285 features 1,792 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB or 4 GB of memory. The card will feature clock speeds of 918 MHz core, 5.50 GHz memory. AMD claims the R9 285 will be up to 15 percent faster than the GeForce GTX 760. It will start at US $249, with partners coming out with custom-designs on day-one (September 2nd, 2014).
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204464/amd-radeon-r9-285-clock-speeds-and-pricing-revealed.html

Radeon R9 285 Features 1,792 Stream Processors

AMD disclosed the first details of its upcoming Radeon R9 285 graphics card, designed to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 760. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, the card features 1,792 of the chip's 2,048 Graphics Core Next 1.1 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. AMD AIBs will have variants with 2 GB and 4 GB of memory. The company didn't disclose clock speeds, but the card will be designed to offer performance rivaling (or outperforming) the R9 280, at energy-efficiency levels rivaling NVIDIA's GK104 silicon. Below are some of the first custom-design graphics cards.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204462/amd-radeon-r9-285-features-1-792-stream-processors.html

Radeon R9 285 3DMark FireStrike Performance Revealed

AMD put out its own 3DMark FireStrike performance numbers for its soon-to-launch Radeon R9 285 performance-segment graphics card. Running on a test-bed powered by a Core i7-4960X six-core processor and 16 GB of DDR3-1866 memory, the R9 285 scored P7066 (performance preset) and X3513 (extreme preset); compared to an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (337.88 WHQL driver) scoring P5650 and X2774, on the same test-bed. For a card that's in the same price-range (the R9 285 will start at $249) as the GTX 760 (currently going for as low as $239), that's an impressive performance uplift. The R9 285 will start selling on the 2nd of September, 2014.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204467/radeon-r9-285-3dmark-firestrike-performance-revealed.html

New Never Settle: Space Edition Rewards Announced

AMD announced the latest round of free games with its upcoming graphics cards, the Never Settle: Space Edition. The bundle adds several new space-themed games to the 27 free games you can choose, as a reward for going AMD Radeon. These games include Star Citizen, Alien: Isolation, Space Run, and Habitat. Buyers of all AMD graphics cards with unused Never Settle coupons can choose from these four titles.
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Sapphire Officially Launches its Radeon R9 285 Lineup

SAPPHIRE Technology has just announced three new models in its successful R9 series of graphics cards based on the latest GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture from AMD. The SAPPHIRE R9 285 Dual-X is a new model from SAPPHIRE that features a new GCN core and the company's Dual-X cooler. Dual-X, with its two aerofoil fans, and set of graduated sizes of heatpipes, is an efficient and quiet cooler design which received industry acclaim in previous generations of products. The standard R9 285 model has 2GB of the latest GDDR5 memory clocked at 1375MHz (5.5GB/s effective) and a GCN core with 1792 stream processors clocked at 918MHz. The R9 285 OC model features the enhanced clock speeds of 965MHz for the core and 1400MHz for the memory (5.6GB/s effective).


At the same time SAPPHIRE introduces the R9 285 ITX Compact OC edition. Developed specially for small form factor PC systems, this model features a shorter PCB, measuring only 171mm long, and an efficient heatpipe cooler with a single fan. Sharing the same GCN core as the Dual-X models, the ITX Compact is no slouch with core clocks of 928MHz and memory clocks of 1375MHz (5.5GB/s effective).

All three models share the latest features of AMD GCN, including AMD Trueaudio technology for the most realistic sound reproduction in games, as well as AMD Image quality enhancement, AMD HD Media accelerator and AMD PowerTune for optimum performance. They offer support for the very latest games and applications with DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.4 and the on-board Dual BIOS supports both UEFI and legacy systems.

All three models also support AMD Eyefinity, for multi-screen operation. They are CrossFire ready for accelerated performance using multiple cards in a CrossFire enabled mainboard. No interconnect cables are required as CrossFire is now enabled over the PCI-Express bus.

APP acceleration is also supported for enhanced performance in a wide range of applications using the stream processing capabilities and specific hardware features of the GCN graphics architecture. Typical applications include Video encoding and decoding, compression and multiplexing for media distribution, gaming and video conferencing. APP acceleration can also enhance everyday tasks such as Internet browsing, Office applications and file compression with supported software suites.

The SAPPHIRE R9 285 series of graphics cards will be available from September 2nd from etailers and retailers worldwide.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204611/sapphire-officially-launches-its-radeon-r9-285-lineup.html
 
PowerColor Officially Launches Radeon R9 285 TurboDuo OC

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TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphic cards since 1997, announces the latest model, the PowerColor TurboDuo R9 285 OC. This card will be offered a cost-effective choice for those who are looking for the best bang for their buck. The new TurboDuo R9 285 OC comes packed with the latest GCN architecture innovations like Direct 12 and Mantle API. Ensuring that gamers can play the most demanding games at settings better than any other card in its class.

Equipped with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the TurboDuo R9 285 OC comes overclocked from the factory to the core clock speed of 945MHz, and 1375MHz for the memory clock speed, giving gamers blazing fast speed while gaming. In addition to factory default OC setting, the TurboDuo R9 285 OC takes advantage of PowerColor's exclusive Gold Power Kit, which includes total 7-phase design, PowerPAK SO-8, and SVI2 Green Power Manage technology, ensuring stability for its OC setting.


Packed with the TurboDuo cooling technology, the new R9 285 features dual 80mm fans along with patented Double Blades fan design which generates up to 20% extra airflow, providing efficient thermal dissipation. The heatsink comes with a 3-piece U-shape heat pipe design that directs heat away from the GPU rapidly. Furthermore, the pure copper base fully covers GPU, offering the best heat transfers available.

But that is not all, this graphic card is loaded with the latest advancements in GCN architecture. Users are able to experience TrueAudio technology, which is the first discrete GPU featuring programmable audio pipeline. This delivers a unique audio experience on PCs. By using AMD CrossFire technology, users can get exceptional performance scaling with a second GPU. And thanks to AMD Eyefinity technology, gamers can enjoy the ultimate immersive gaming experience with the innovative "wrap around" multi-display capabilities.
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VTX3D Introduces the R9 285 X-Edition Graphics Card

VTX3D, a renowned manufacturer that has been producing quality graphic cards since its introduction. - Today, VTX3D launched a high performance graphics card that targets the enthusiasts, the VTX3D R9 285 X-Edition. The R9 285 X-Edition is equipped with an optimum dual fan cooling design and supports the latest technologies from AMD, such as AMD Eyefinity Technology, Mantle API, and DirectX 12. Gamers may get an unparalleled gaming experience that they have never felt before.

Being one of VTX3D high-end graphics card you can expect some impressive numbers. VTX3D R9 285 X-Edition boasts 1,792 stream processors, up to 945 MHz engine clock, 2 GB GDDR5 / 256-bit memory configuration, 2 x 6-pin power connectors, PCI-E 3.0, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, and Mantle support. Delivering excellent parallel processing performance at extreme 3D rendering speeds. It also supports AMD's Eyefinity, TrueAudio and CrossFire technology, to satisfy the various demands of all users.


The R9 285 X-Edition comes equipped with a customized heatsink and fan that conducts heat away from the GPU with ultimate efficiency. The card is cooled with dual 80mm cooling fans, two massive 8 mm copper heatpipes and one 6 mm copper heatpipes. A wide range of unique aluminum fin and a large size copper base, offers an effective heat dissipation for the GPU. The performance and cooling solution provided by the VTX3D R9 285 X-Edition will meet the need of all gamers from the enthusiast, to the casual.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204615/vtx3d-introduces-the-r9-285-x-edition-graphics-card.html
 
Club 3D Introduces the Radeon R9 285 royalQueen

Club 3D proudly presents the latest addition to the R9 Series, a card that is built for gaming beyond 1080p and delivers exceptional performance per dollar. The all brand new Radeon R9 285 royalQueen.

The AMD Radeon R9 285 uses the latest iteration of the Graphics Core Next Architecture and gains all the nice features found on the existing R9 290 series as well as the R7 260, supporting natively Eyefinty on the Dual DVI ports + HDMI making it easy for an Eyefinity 3 setup and AMD TrueAudio support.


The Radeon R9 285 is AMD's first discreet GPU with a redesigned fixed-funtion decoder (UVD - Unified Video Decoder) that supports full hardware decode of 4K H.264 videos. This next generation UVD supports H.264 base, main and high profile, up to level 5.2. The primary benefit of having a fixed-function decoder, especially for high bit-rate 4K content, is the significantly reduced CPU utilization. This results in a more responsive system and more importantly, the system will not exhibit any skipped frames during playback.

It also provides superior compute performance across a wide number of applications. With a growing number of applications in the market leveraging OpenCL and GPGPU performance in general, this is becoming even more important to the end user.


PokerSeries R9 285 royalQueen

With "PokerSeries" Club 3D offers a new level of special game cards that delivers the best performance, newest features and best coolers. PokerSeries graphic cards present our highest demands.


Custom CoolStream Cooler

Club 3D CoolStream features high performance heatpipes that keeps the components cool and outperforms standard cooling solutions. Transferring heat from the center area to each fin, ensuring enhanced heat dissipation. The result is a dramatic increase of performance for your gaming and multimedia experience.
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AMD Announces the Radeon R9 285 Performance Graphics Processor

AMD announced its most important GPU for the season, the Radeon R9 285. The chip is designed to compete with the GeForce GTX 760 from NVIDIA at not just performance, but also energy-efficiency, and low component costs, so AMD can price it better. Based on a brand new 28 nm silicon by the company, codenamed "Tonga," the R9 285 features 1,792 Graphics CoreNext 1.2 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory.

AMD partners are free to come up with 4 GB variants. The card supports DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.4, and Mantle. It features new AMD innovations, such as XDMA CrossFire, TrueAudio DSP, and 4-display Eyefinity by plugging into every connector on the card (two dual-link DVI, one DisplayPort 1.2, and one HDMI 1.4a). The card draws power from a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors. Available now, the Radeon R9 285, from various AMD partners starts at US $249.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204796/amd-announces-the-radeon-r9-285-performance-graphics-processor.html


MSI Announces its Radeon R9 285 Gaming OC Graphics Card

MSI announced its first Radeon R9 285 graphics card, built in its successful Gaming Series, featuring the company's TwinFrozr IV compact cooling solution, which the company deployed on several of its performance-segment graphics cards, such as the R9 280, the GTX 770, etc. The card also features a factory overclock of 1000 MHz, compared to reference clock speeds of 918 MHz core and 5.50 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, the R9 285 from AMD features 1,792 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide memory interface, which holds 2 GB of memory on this card.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204797/msi-announces-its-radeon-r9-285-gaming-oc-graphics-card.html


Gigabyte Launches its Radeon R9 285 WindForce OC Graphics Card

Gigabyte joined the Radeon R9 285 launch party with a WindForce OC graphics card. The card uses a twin-fan WindForce 2X Triangle-Cool heatsink, which the company implemented on several performance-segment graphics cards, from both camps. The card features a factory-overclock of around 950 MHz, with 5.60 GHz memory. Other Gigabyte-exclusives include gold-plated HDMI and DisplayPort connectors, which totally improve the quality of your digital video content. Or so thinks Gigabyte. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, the R9 285 from AMD features 1,792 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide memory interface, which holds 2 GB of memory on this card.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204798/gigabyte-launches-its-radeon-r9-285-windforce-oc-graphics-card.html


HIS Announces its Radeon R9 285 IceQ X2 Graphics Card

HIS rolled out is IceQ X2 implementation of AMD's newest Radeon R9 285 graphics card. Available in reference clock (918 MHz core, 5.50 GHz memory), and OC variants (928 MHz core), HIS' cards sport a lightweight variant of the IceQ X2 cooler which was previously implement on the company's R9 270X graphics cards, taking advantage of the lower thermal figures of the R9 285. It appears to be based on a compact non-reference design PCB. The cooler features a dense aluminium fin-stack, cooled by a pair of 80 mm fans. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, the R9 285 from AMD features 1,792 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide memory interface, which holds 2 GB of memory on this card.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204799/his-announces-its-radeon-r9-285-iceq-x2-graphics-card.html


ASUS Announces the Radeon R9 285 Strix Graphics Card

ASUS announced the Radeon R9 285 Strix graphics card, based on AMD's latest 28 nm "Tonga" silicon. The card utilizes ASUS' latest Strix cooling solution, which stays silent until a thermal threshold is reached, only beyond which, its fans begin to spool up. Barring its new cooler shroud design and fan-speed management, the Strix cooling solution bears strong resemblance to the company's DirectCU II cooling solution. ASUS is shipping the card with a factory-overclock. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, the R9 285 from AMD features 1,792 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide memory interface, which holds 2 GB of memory on this card.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204800/asus-announces-the-radeon-r9-285-strix-graphics-card.html
 
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I'm a fan of AMD, forget about True Auido, 40% increased memory bandwidth and all that... all that masters is does it improve on the GPU it replaced?

By the looks of it the reality is (other than having True Audio) it has no improvement on the GPU it replaced.
It is not any faster, it does not use any less power, from a users perspective the only real difference is the vRam, this one has less.

IMO, to be blunt, this is Crap!, its a failure as a new for old replacement.

This is exactly why AMD lost a massive amount of their CPU enthusiasts, they replaced one CPU with another that was not any better (Bulldozer) From that moment on AMD's CPU market fell hard on its face.

They need to do better than this, a lot better, Nvidia will not stand still, if AMD do they will get over taken in the blink of an eye and never recover.
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The point is it is not supposed to be any faster than the card it replaces, it's job is to occupy a price point.

When the GTX 970/980 show up then it will be very reasonable to throw all the negative comments going at it. These cards will become NVidia's top of the range products but are unlikely to offer much in performance gain. This puts them in an entirely different position to the R9 285 which is filling a gap in the market.:)
 
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