AMD Radeon R9-285 review

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So the Radeon R9 285 ASUS Strix edition a 2GB version with that ROG eyes design cooler. It actually has two PCI-E PEG power connector.

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The R9 285 is armed with 2 GB @ 5.5  Gbps / 256-bit to get you a little more leash with resolutions and image quality settings. The reference clocked products will run with clock freqeuncy up-to 918 MHz on its 1792 shader processors. 

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The card has been designed to be a nice match for Full HD gaming, up-to 1080P. AMD however is positioning the card as a great alternative for 2560x1440 gaming, so we'll place a focus at that in out article. The reality though is that the Radeon R9 285 performance wise honestly is at Radeon HD 7950 / 7970 like performance yet with only 2 GB of graphics memory.

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The specs are fairly similar to the regular 280, 1792 shader processor running up-to a core frequency of 918 MHz. The 2 GB GDDR5 graphics memory runs on a 256-bit wide bus though. 

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Overall the card can poop out 3.29 TFLOPS is single precision performance and has a texture fill-rate of up-to 102.8 GT/s. The card has two DVI connectors, one HDMO adn one DisplayPort connector. The card has a significantly better TDP, now ranked at 190 Watt.

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