Rounding Up Initial Flood Of R9 285 Graphics Cards

[N.Broekhuijsen]

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

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[Chris Droste]

No partners did a 3GB OC edition? I am disapoint.

 

[RedJaron]

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. )

 

[srap]

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

 

[RedJaron]

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.

 

[InvalidError]

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.

 

[IInuyasha74]

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.

 

[Drejeck]

I love the ITX one

 

[JayHW]

When does MSI release their version? Anyone know?