AMD Sunday celebrated 30 years of video game graphics and retransmitting on Twitch an event in which he, among others, formalized the new Radeon R9 285.
As expected AMD introduced the Radeon yesterday R9 285, its new graphics card for mid-range player. Like the GeForce GTX 750, it will replace its predecessor (R9 280) in étrennant a new GPU that is both more powerful and more energy efficient.
She actually uses the chip inaugurated Tonga there two weeks by FirePro professional graphics W7100. The card will have in case of 1792 stream processors, 112 texture units and 32 ROPs, as its predecessor. It will operate at a maximum of 918 MHz, the nominal frequency but is not yet provided. In terms of memory, the reference model will carry 2GB of GDDR5 running at 5500 MHz 256-bit.
The TDP of the card will be only 190 W, a drop of 31% compared to 250 W of R9 280 also support DirectX 12 promises additional benefits in terms of performance / consumption with future compatible games. Finally, we know that the card supports AMD TrueAudio function, which means it is at least 1.1 GCN, or perhaps later, it is not specified.
L AMD Radeon R9 285 will go on sale September 2, 2014 at a retail price of $ 250, that is to say, for $ 30 more than the 280 it replaces R9 or 30 dollars less than the 280X R9 remains for the time the catalog. By comparison, the retail price of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 is $ 240.
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