Not everyone can afford an AMD Radeon R9 295X2 or an Nvidia GTX Titan Z – and AMD appreciates this.
Launched on 2 September 2014, the slightly more affordable AMD Radeon R9 285 will cater to gamers who need to balance performance and price.
AMD says the card is “loaded with the latest from Graphics Core Next architecture, including mixed screen resolution and orientation for AMD Eyefinity technology, and support for DirectX12 and AMD’s groundbreaking Mantle API”.
The company also guarantees the R9 285 will be faster than Nvidia’s GTX 760.
Here are the R9 285’s specs.
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AMD Radeon R9 285
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| Steam Processors | 1792 |
| Core Clock | 918MHz |
| Memory | 2GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus Width | 256-bit |
| Power Consumption | 190W (270W peak*) |
| Texture Units | 112 |
*According to tests conducted by Eurogamer.
Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry got its hands on the card on launch date and put it through it through its paces.
The HD – 1920 x 1080 – and QHD – 2560×1440 – tests on the group’s gaming rig showed that AMD’s claims were justified. The R9 285 performed better than the Nvidia GTX 760 in Battlefield 4, Tomb Raider, and BioShock Infinite.
In BioShock, set to QHD, the AMD card was a full 14 frames per second faster than the GTX 760.
The final verdict was that AMD has taken a clear performance lead in the sector of the market the R9 285 falls into.
AMD Radeon R9 285
A quick look online showed that Evetech seemed to be the only local supplier with prices for the card, which can be pre-ordered for R3,999.
The aforementioned card is the MSI Gaming, 2GB version.
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R3999. Huh.