AMD Tonga Powered Radeon R9 285 Graphics Card Launched for $249 / €190

Just last week AMD took the opportunity to announce the latest Radeon R9 285 graphics card (or Tonga) with the occasion of its “30 Years of Radeon Graphics and Gaming Commemoration” event. And a few days later, the new GPU, which arrives with improved GCN architecture and several other enhancement and pleasant surprises (like Mantle or DirectX 12 support), has been officially unleashed into the wild. Even if it was previously said that Tonga was to be AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s super-efficient GM107 architecture, the truth turns out to be a little bit different, as Radeon R9 285 is actually just an incremental update from Tahiti. So, the new card retains the same great gaming performance skills and also brings to the table some technological...

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