AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB Video Card Will Be $249 on September 2nd – #AMD30LIVE

By Nathan Kirsch

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Devon Nekechuk and John Byrne are just wrapping up at #AMD30LIVE and have announced the AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics card! The AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB reference card has 1,792 stream processor, running at up to 918MHz, which is good for 3.29 TFLOPS of compute power. The card comes with either 2 to 4 GB of GDDR5 memory running on the 256-bit bus at up to 5.5Gbps (5500MHz). The DirectX 12 ready card with AMD Mantle support has a pair of 6-pin connectors and a typical board power rating of 190 Watts.

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Other key specifications are the 112 texture units with a texture fill-rate of up to 102.8 GT/s and 32 ROPs with a Pixel Fill-Rate of up to 29.8 GP/s.

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The price of the AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB video card will be $249 and it will be hard launched on September 2nd, 2014.

AMD Radeon R9 285 Video Card Designs

All the major AMD Radeon board makers will be making AMD Radeon R9 285 video cards and you can see the assortment above.

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To wrap things up AMD also announced the Never Settle: Space Edition game bundle promotion that now includes Star Citizen! The AMD Never Settle: Space Edition promotion will begin on September 2nd as well.