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Rounding Up Initial Flood Of R9 285 Graphics Cards

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September 3, 2014 8:52:04 AM

After the Radeon R9 285 launched yesterday, today we bring you a roundup of a handful of cards.

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September 3, 2014 10:42:26 AM

No partners did a 3GB OC edition? I am disapoint.
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a b U Graphics card
September 3, 2014 11:09:19 AM

Chris Droste said:
No partners did a 3GB OC edition? I am disapoint.

3GB of VRAM doesn't split smoothly across a 256-bit bus. 3GB and 6GB cards are more common among 192- and 384-bit controllers. 256- and 512-bit cards tend to have ordinals of 2GB VRAM ( 2, 4, 8, etc. )
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September 3, 2014 11:09:57 AM

I hope Tom's will a test the 4GB versions at 1440p to check the effects of extra memory on that resolution.
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a b U Graphics card
September 3, 2014 11:15:11 AM

srap said:
I hope Tom's will a test the 4GB versions at 1440p to check the effects of extra memory on that resolution.

Would be interesting to see the Mantle difference on those cards, if nothing else.
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a b U Graphics card
September 3, 2014 1:29:09 PM

Chris Droste said:
No partners did a 3GB OC edition? I am disapoint.

Most of the RAM on 3+GB GPUs with triple/quad-channel memory configurations simply holds extra copies of data mirrored on other memory channels to increase bandwidth/availability. More memory without extra channels for bandwidth multiplication is not going to make much of a difference.
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September 3, 2014 5:01:41 PM

Well that should help things. The R9 285 is from AMD was a nice card to add in all the new features and lower power consumption a fair bit, but it only gave 2% performance improvement when comparing all benchmarks.

With about 941.5Mhz being average among these cards, that gives an extra 2.5% increase in clock speed will help to kinda help step it up and distinguish it from the R9 280 a little more. Of course the higher clocked ones with the faster RAM will really shine a lot more on this.
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September 4, 2014 1:40:02 PM

I love the ITX one
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September 28, 2014 6:33:18 PM

When does MSI release their version? Anyone know?
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