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The AMD Radeon R9 285 Thread

I have been using

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for a few days

The Specs
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So far I've been quite impressed it's easily as good as a GTX 680 only without the heat soak and noise.

On league of legends it holds a nice and stable 220 fps temps ramp up to 72 degrees, fans crank up to 50% and the temperature doesn't move just stays at 72 which is fine.

Same on CS:GO no drops holds a decent and stable fps at 1080p with most things on high Again temps ramped up fans matched and just held the temp at a point. Fan noise isn't that high either.

will install battlefield and have a play this week.

Might even do some benchmarks.

But I can assure you if anyone wants a cheap card the 285 is a fair shout from where I'm sitting and I'm a team green fan.
 
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TwsT said:
I have been using

GX-099-HS_95997_350.jpg


for a few days

The Specs
BOdX9KL.png

So far I've been quite impressed it's easily as good as a GTX 680 only without the heat soak and noise.

On league of legends it holds a nice and stable 220 fps temps ramp up to 72 degrees, fans crank up to 50% and the temperature doesn't move just stays at 72 which is fine.

Same on CS:GO no drops holds a decent and stable fps at 1080p with most things on high Again temps ramped up fans matched and just held the temp at a point. Fan noise isn't that high either.

will install battlefield and have a play this week.

Might even do some benchmarks.

But I can assure you if anyone wants a cheap card the 285 is a fair shout from where I'm sitting and I'm a team green fan.
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Thanks for the mini review Twst. :)
 
no problem I don't do benchmarks but i do play a lot of games so i can always tell if something is lacking.

2gb is just enough for 1080p but it would be fair to say if you're trying to do 120hz on anything above 1080p you're already prepared for spending more money :)
 
I picked up a Sapphire R9 285 OC and it works fine graphically, runs cool etc. However, in anything with DirectX acceleration I'm getting audio glitches. I've verified it's related to DirectX specifically - if I use OpenGL renderers it's fine. If I uninstall the graphics card drivers it's fine. Run something as simple as a video in VLC with the Direct3D renderer and I get clicks/pops every few seconds but switch to the OpenGL renderer or any of the others and it goes away.

The rest of the machine is no slouch - it's brand new 5820k build with 16GB RAM, SSD, Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 and 750 watt corsair PSU. I'm not doing any overclocking.

Anyone else experienced anything like this with one of these cards?
 
jbox5 said:
I picked up a Sapphire R9 285 OC and it works fine graphically, runs cool etc. However, in anything with DirectX acceleration I'm getting audio glitches. I've verified it's related to DirectX specifically - if I use OpenGL renderers it's fine. If I uninstall the graphics card drivers it's fine. Run something as simple as a video in VLC with the Direct3D renderer and I get clicks/pops every few seconds but switch to the OpenGL renderer or any of the others and it goes away.

The rest of the machine is no slouch - it's brand new 5820k build with 16GB RAM, SSD, Gigabyte GA-X99-UD4 and 750 watt corsair PSU. I'm not doing any overclocking.

Anyone else experienced anything like this with one of these cards?
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Can't say that I have, which drivers are you using ?
 
I think amd have issues with marketing of the 285 in the desktop sector.
It also should have never come with 2gb but 4gb as minimum.

Now in the workstation market the w7100 (a 8gb 285) it's an upgrade over the w7000 which is a 7870 4gb. It's also a sideline/upgrade over the w8000 ( a 7950 4gb 256bit memory bus) and below a W9000 (a 6gb 7970)
8100 and w9100 are hawaii (290 8gb/ 16gb 290x).
So tonga fits in nicely as bonaire/tonga/hawaii


On the desktop though despite some gimmicky extra features, tonga just doesn't fit in.
Ok yes it's designed to replace tahiti, but 2gb of ram come on!!
is tonga broken or is it amd trying to cheap out?
 
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