Amd radeon r9 285x is seen two years after its supposed launch

You probably don't even remember anymore but the Radeon R9 285X was the most talked about graphics card for a long time, it was supposed to hit the market with a fully enabled AMD Tonga GPU but that never happened. Finally its specifications and the supposed performance have come to light, better late than never.

This is the Radeon R9 285X that never saw the light

The Radeon R9 285X was canceled by AMD before its official launch, rumors suggest that it did not measure up in terms of performance and efficiency, so nothing new was brought with its launch. Finally, the C765 PCB that corresponded to the Radeon R9 285X based on the Tonga XT silicon has been filtered, this graphics processor consists of a total of 32 Compute Units that total 2048 Stream Processors accompanied by 128 texturing units (TMUs)) and 32 raster units (ROPs). Next to it is a 384-bit bus to manage its 3 GB of GDDR5 memory at a frequency of 5.5 GHz for a bandwidth of 264 GB / s. All this fed by a VRM of 5 + 1 phases of feeding that takes the energy from an 8-pin connector and a 6-pin connector, with this its TDP is estimated at approximately 200W.

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With these characteristics, the Radeon R9 285X is 17% faster than the Radeon R9 285, a figure that was expected at the time. Obviously we will no longer see any card with these characteristics in stores.

Source: videocardz