AMD Radeon R9 285 Video Card Coming on September 2nd?

According to CPU World, AMD will be introducing a new GPU named Tonga and it appears that it will be used on the Radeon R9 285 and Radeon R9 285X graphics cards. AMD hasn’t revealed the details on the GPU just yet, but it appears that to be very close to launching.

The AMD Radeon R9 285 is said to be coming on September 2nd, 2014 and it will be followed up by the Radeon R9 285X about a month later. No clock speeds have been leaked, but the Radeon R9 285 is believed to feature 28 Graphics Core Next (GCN) 1.1 Compute Units, 1792 shaders, 112 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The AMD Radeon R9 285X will feature a fully enabled Tonga GPU, so it will have 32 GCN 1.1 compute units, 2,048 shaders, 128 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The Radeon R9 280 will have a 256-bit memory interface with the ability to support either 2GB or 4GB of GDDR5 memory whereas the AMD Radeon R9 285X will have a 384-bit memory bus with likely 3GB of memory.

We suspect that this card will be replacing the AMD Radeon R9 280/280X cards that use the other Tahiti GPU. This should help AMD compete with NVIDIA’s upcoming Maxwell based graphics cards that appear to be just around the corner.

Here is a picture of the Sapphire Dual-X R9 285 that VideoCardz was able to come up with.