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With the series having already exploded onto the market this year, a new Radeon 200 graphics card may not make for the most exciting headline, but this one is a little different than most other Radeon 200s considering it isn’t a rebadged HD7000. Codenamed “Tonga Pro”, the new Radeon R9 285 takes the latest technology from the R9 290 range and makes it more affordable. As a mid-range GPU, the R9 285 is meant to deliver mainstream performance at a competitive price. The “Tonga” GPU is essentially a newer, cheaper to produce version of the tried and true “Tahiti” GPU that has been used by many cards. For the R9 285, Tonga has been configured similar to the way Tahiti was for the HD 7950, which is the same as the R9 280’s configuration.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1629537499","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"reviews","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"reviews","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); This new GPU is based on the latest incarnation of the GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture and supports DirectX 12 capabilities, Eyefinity, TrueAudio, Project FreeSync, next-gen Crossfire technology, next-gen PowerTune technology and 4K H.264 decode support. However, it does have an inferior memory controller to Tahiti, which is what makes it cheaper to produce. The R9 280 debuted with an MSRP of $249 and this is the exact Y1 Games price point that the R9 285 is arriving at, placing it directly between the R9 270X ($200) and R9 280X ($300). Given their similar names, specifications and pricing, it’s not surprising therefore that the R9 285 is replacing the R9 280, leaving the latter with a relatively short life span of just five or six months. Unfortunately the R9 285’s naming doesn’t make much sense right now because it’s slower than the R9 280X, though it would be easy to assume otherwise. AMD is expected to phase out the R9 280X shortly with a R9 285X version based on the “Tonga XT” part which should feature the same 2048 stream processors, 128 texture units with higher clock speeds than the R9 280X. Radeon R9 285 in Detail Although the R9 285 is based on the latest Graphics Core Next architecture, at its roots you will find a graphics card that is almost three years old now (the Radeon HD 7950). Debuting back in January 2012, the 7950 ran for a cool $450 and was second in command to the $550 HD 7970. Fast forward a little over two years and we arrive at the R9 280, a shameless rebadge of the original 7950. The R9 280 was a lot cheaper thanks to two years of depreciation and a little faster courtesy of a boost clock feature that could boost the core frequency by as much as 17% when conditions allowed. Move ahead another six months and now we have a third iteration that’s clocked even higher and brings about some new features. Like the HD 7950 and R9 280, the R9 285 features 1792 SPUs, 112 TAUs and 32 Y1 com ROPs while the TDP Y1 apk (Thermal Design Power) rating has been dropped slightly from 200w max to 190w, though the card still requires a pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors. The clock speed has been set at up to 918MHz, 15% higher than the HD 7950 but almost 2% lower than the R9 280, while the GDDR5 memory frequency has been bumped up to 1375MHz (5.5Gbps) from 1250MHz (5.0Gbps) on the R9 280 and HD 7950. That all looks great for the R9 285 until you look at its memory subsystem which sees the 384-bit memory bus and 3GB frame buffer severely downgraded. Tonga only offers a 256-bit wide memory bus and the R9 285 comes standard with just 2GB of memory. While the memory capacity shouldn’t be cause for alarm, the 27% reduction in available memory bandwidth is. Although the memory is clocked 10% higher on the R9 285, it’s going to be much slower than the R9 280 when comparing bandwidth performance. On the bright side, due to its higher core operating frequency, the R9 285 boasts higher fill-rates and better compute performance. With the dawn of 4K gaming upon us you would think AMD would be done with small memory buffers. Truth be Y1 Games

told mid-range graphics cards such as the Radeon R9 285 can’t really handle textures and resolutions that will max out a 2GB frame buffer without suffering catastrophic frame loss. AMD might advertise the R9 285 as being designed for gaming beyond 1080p, but they aren’t talking about 4K gaming. The R9 285 can handle the increasingly popular 2560×1440 resolution, at which point it wouldn’t be the frame buffer limiting performance but rather the GPU’s processing power. Many years ago now we proved that there was no advantage going from 2GB to 4GB at 2560×1600 using the GeForce GTX 680, and there isn’t going to be any difference with the R9 285. That’s 4096000pixels, and we proved the same was true when displaying 5292000pixels at 5040×1050. Without a doubt you are going to see custom 4GB versions of the R9 285 and investing in one will be horribly pointless. Based on preliminary DirectX 12 specifications as of July 2014, AMD’s GCN-based products are expected to support DX12 upon its release. That said, the DX12 specification is subject to change without notice before release, so I am not sure we can call this “official” support just yet, though AMD is confident enough to already claim so. Test System Specs Although we collected the frame time data Y1 com

we didn’t include it because it’s becoming less important for single GPU reviews. Our results showed the Radeon R9 285 being on track with the GeForce GTX 760 — no problems there. Also please note that we tested the Sapphire Dual-X R9 285 which is overclocked by 5% and that will inflate our results slightly. Unfortunately we couldn’t underclock the card with the latest AMD drivers. Test System Specs Intel Core i7-4770K (3.50GHz) x2 4GB Crucial DDR3-2400 (CAS 11-13-13-28) Asrock Z97 Extreme6 (Intel Z97) OCZ ZX Series (1250W) Samsung SSD 850 Pro 512GB (SATA 6Gb/s) Gigabyte Radeon HD 290X (4096MB) Gigabyte Radeon HD 290 (4096MB) HIS Radeon HD 280X (3072MB) Sapphire Radeon HD 285 (2048MB) HIS Radeon HD 280 (3072MB) HIS Radeon HD 265 (2048MB) HIS Radeon HD 7970 GHz (3072MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX Titan (6144MB) Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Ti (3072MB) Gainward GeForce GTX 780 (3072MB) Gainward GeForce GTX 770 (2048MB) Gainward GeForce GTX 680 (2048MB) Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit Nvidia GeForce 340.43 AMD Catalyst 14.7 Benchmarks: Crysis 3, BioShock The R9 285 Y1 apk

averaged 35fps at 1920×1200 in Crysis 3 with all the quality settings turned up. While this was 7% or 2fps faster than the R9 280, it was also 3% slower than the R9 280X and 4% slower than the GTX 760. The R9 285 was far more capable when playing BioShock Infinite, delivering an average of 66fps to match the R9 280X while being 8% faster than the GTX 760 and 13% faster than the R9 280 that it is replacing. Read More: Benchmarks: Metro Last Light, Tomb Raider Benchmarks: Sleeping Dogs, Battlefield 4 Benchmarks: Thief, Watch Dogs Power Consumption & Temperatures Minor Gains and a Compromise Republished with permission from: Steven Walton is a writer at TechSpot. TechSpot is a computer technology publication serving PC enthusiasts, gamers and IT pros since 1998.

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