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Announced at AMD's Years of Graphics And Gaming celebration last month, and newly released this week, the Radeon R is AMD's first major card launch since the dual-GPU R X was released back in April Indeed it is their new silicon since Hawaii debuted wit...
Fair price...
Brings too few new tangible benefits to the game, Starts to suffer at higher settings...
When we first heard about the R9-285 we suspected that this card was a taster of things to come. A teaser card if you will. what we didn't expect was a different core altogether. We certainly didn't expect a reduced bus-width which we feel has crippled th...
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Sapphire have scored consistently well in our reviews over the last year, thanks in part to their excellent cooling systems. I am aware some of you may be looking at this review today without having read our previous R9 285 coverage, so let us have a quic...
excellent performance, good overclocking headroom in software, runs cool, reasonably quiet, outperforms overclocked GTX760...
facing competition from cheaper R9 280′s and faster R9 280X's, 1GB less memory than the R9 280.
This is the second R9 285 we have looked at this week and it has been interesting to follow up on our initial launch article. Due to all the recent product launches we ran out of time in our earlier article before we could test power consumption. Our resu...
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Although Sapphire Technology don't have the air miles of some current brands (MSI, ASUS), they have carved out their own lineage with some pretty huge accomplishments; first graphics card with HDMI and first 1GHz clocked graphics card. With that being sa...
Has a nice subtle aesthetic, Offers decent performance for the money when compared to NVIDIA options available, Mediocre:, Cooling performance could be better when under load but still within acceptable levels, Offers similar performance to the R9 280x fo...
Fans loud even when at 50%, Better AMD options out there for the same/less money, Only 2GB of VRAM available...
So the latest £/performance AMD card, the R9 285 has been on the test bench and we are thankful to Sapphire for sending us a sample to have a blast with; it's been a surprising pleasure but not without its drawbacks; it wouldn't be a review without a mixt...
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After much anticipation and speculation we can finally present our review of AMD's new “Tonga” based graphics card. Today we are reviewing Tonga Pro, that's the first iteration of Tonga, which forms the R9 285 graphics card. It is expected that a Tonga XT...
Improved power efficiency – allows for more compact form factor, Extra performance seems to have come from nowhere!?, Priced competitively, Beats Nvidia's equivalent – should force price cuts...
R9 280 performs similarly for less cost, 2GB of RAM is a downgrade from 3GB on R9 280...
Pricing (accurate at the time of writing)AMD's R9 285 costs $249.99 MSRP, which is the same as the MSRP for the R9 280 and GTX 760. Although the R9 280 can be found at retailers from $210 and the GTX 760 from $225. Sapphire's model will cost the same as t...
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Sitting here writing the first sentence of this Sapphire R9 285 2GB Dual-X OC video card review, I find myself already annoyed at AMD. This is because while I'm only just starting to write the review now, I've already tested the card and have come to a co...
AMD's Radeon R9 285 is actually ultimately a really strong video card and the Sapphire Dual-X variant of it is excellent. The Dual-X cooler does a great job as we see fantastic temperature and noise levels. I want to say nothing but good things about the...
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The other day we got a chance to test the performance of the new Sapphire R9 285 2GB Dual-X that AMD had just launched. While we liked what Sapphire and AMD offered, we weren't all that impressed with how AMD named the model, or how they are handling it o...
Coming in at around the $500 mark, the CrossFire R9 285 2GB Dual-X OC setup isn't a cheap one. Just like the R9 280 3GB CrossFire setup, performance here is extremely strong, even in comparison to a heavily overclocked R9 290X 4GB. Going through most our...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
2016-12-15 23:12:21
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AMD recently released a new GPU in the R9 285 which offers new features and a cheaper price with a bit of a performance bump over the R9 280. We got one Sapphire sample from AMD have called Dual-X OC R9 285. Lets find out how well it works...
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You may know that the high-end Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 GPUs use the latest Hawaii GCN v2 architecture, imbued with better geometry throughput, tidier design and a general clean-up of the memory controller and back-end when compared to other mainstream R...
Greater efficiency from Tonga architecture, More performance than GeForce GTX 760, Excellent performance at 1080p, passable at 4K, True Audio and software CrossFire support, Competitive pricing...
Sideways performance move from R9 280, R9 280 available for less (for now)...
AMD is bringing consistency to the enthusiast and premium Radeon GPUs by introducing a £170 card equipped with the latest GCN v2 technology. That card is the Tonga-powered Radeon R9 285 and it uses a scaled-down version of the Hawaii architecture to h...
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AMD recently announced their Radeon R9 285 graphics card, this was their first major graphics card announcement since the R9 295X2 back in April. Looking at the naming of the card we expect it to be a replacement for the R9 280, but is it really? It has t...
Dual-X cooling solution is quiet, Good overall performance at 1080p gaming, Ability to connect up to 4 displays, Both memory and GPU factory overclocked, AMD XDMA CrossFire, TrueAudio DSP and FreeSync supported...
Not a huge performance / efficiency boost, 2 GB VRAM compared to 3 GB on the R9 280, Confusing naming...
The Radeon R9 285 leaves me with mixed feelings. Let me first talk about what AMD was trying to accomplish with this card. They wanted to take on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 760 graphics card. Now we did not have a GeForce GTX 760 graphics card on hand, but loo...
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You may know that the high-end Radeon R9 290X and R9 290 GPUs use the latest Hawaii GCN v2 architecture, imbued with better geometry throughput, tidier design and a general clean-up of the memory controller and back-end when compared to other mainstream R...
Greater efficiency from Tonga architecture, More performance than GeForce GTX 760, Excellent performance at 1080p, passable at 4K, True Audio and software CrossFire support, Competitive pricing...
Sideways performance move from R9 280, R9 280 available for less (for now)...
AMD is bringing consistency to the enthusiast and premium Radeon GPUs by introducing a £170 card equipped with the latest GCN v2 technology. That card is the Tonga-powered Radeon R9 285 and it uses a scaled-down version of the Hawaii architecture to h...
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proclockers.com Updated:
2014-10-25 06:44:28
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Welcome to the third installment of our series of reviews featuring AMD's new R9 285 GPU. Today we will be bring you one of Sapphire's configurations, the Dual-X R9 285 OC. Of the R9 285s we have received so far, this Sapphire is the longest, coming in ab...
Excellent Price to Performance Ratio, Nice Accessory Bundle, Runs Very Quiet, Low TDP...
Beta Drivers Need Some More Refinement...
Sapphire did not try and re-invent the wheel with their version of the Radeon R9 285. The card is cosmetically almost identical to the R9 280 is replaces. Sapphire did swap the previous silver highlights for purple and change the PCB from blue to black. I...
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We've taken a look at AMD's top offering, the 290X, which utilizes the Hawaii architecture and puts up some impressive benchmark results. Shortly after we reviewed the R9 280 which is on the last-gen Tahiti architecture and, while still a very viable card...
Good performance, Great overclockability, Cool running temps, New Hawaii features at slightly lower price point...
Large price increase over 280, Only 2GB of memory...
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The strategy of rebranding current-generation high-end parts as next-generation performance-segment ones worked quite differently for NVIDIA and AMD. NVIDIA designed its previous-generation high-end chip, the GK104, as skillfully as the G92. It is energy...
Good overclocking potential, Overclocked out of the box, Active DisplayPort adapter no longer required for EyeFinity, AMD Radeon in Space game bundle included, Support for software voltage control, Single-monitor idle power consumption improved, Support f...
Quite slow as performance has not improved, Not very power efficient, Could be quieter in idle and gaming, Elpida memory not optimal for overclocking, High Blu-ray power consumption...
AMD's MSRP for the R9 285 is $249. We expect the Sapphire R9 285 Dual-X OC to retail for around $260. Good overclocking potential Overclocked out of the box Active DisplayPort adapter no longer required for EyeFinity AMD Radeon in Space game bundle includ...
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The graphics card market has been getting properly shaken up since the release of the new GTX 900 series Maxwell cards, but that doesn't mean that AMD doesn't still have a few tricks left up their sleeves. AMD has been diligently at work refreshing and mo...
Great looking, excellent stock performance, phenomenal overclocking capabilities, quiet fans up to 40% PWM, custom PCB, lower power draw than predecessor...
Nonreference board makes likelihood of fullcover water block small, still requires two six pin cables instead of one eight pin...
For the best compromise of cost, performance, and overclocking capability, look no further than the Sapphire Dual-X R9 285 OC...
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reviewstudio.net Updated:
2015-03-20 13:25:48
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In the never-ending battle for graphics card market, AMD is shifting to a new architecture and brings a new product to life. I am talking about the R9 285 ‘Tonga', a card that came to replace the R9 280, bringing a new level of performance and power effic...
excellent performance, excellent power consumption, excellent overclocking, dead silent, good price...
The new member of the R9 series is 285 and it came from Sapphire as their Dual-X version. In terms of performance, the newcomer beats the R9 280 and comes close to 280X. Talking green, GTX 760 has a lower performance, while GTX 770 is a little better than...
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