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Asus R9 285 STRIX Review

Battlefield 4 (also known as BF4) is a first-person shooter video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) and published by Electronic Arts. The game is a sequel to 2011′s Battlefield 3. Battlefield 4 is built on the new Frostbite 3 engine. The new Frostbite engine enables more realistic environments with higher resolution textures and particle effects. A new “networked water” system is also being introduced, allowing all players in the game to see the same wave at the same time. Tessellation has also been overhauled.
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We test at 1080p with the Ultra graphics quality setting enabled.
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A demanding engine, but the R9 280 and R9 285 are able to hold very smooth frame rates. The GTX760 OC is a little slower, although it is still able to power the game without a problem.

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8 comments

  1. I just dont understand the purpose of this card.
    Its no more efficient than previous GCN cards.

    Atleast Nvidia is releasing a much better architecture with 750 Ti and 960/970/980.

  2. I was expecting a bit better from AMD,i thought the 285 wil be faster than the 280x. Guess i’ll wait a bit and see Nvidia’s offering to replace my 7850.

  3. To use up the chips which weren’t good enough to be sold as 290s and push TrueAudio support.

  4. Where’s the power consumption test? It should, in theory, be less power hungry.

  5. Cons:

    R9 285 pricing needs adjusted if AMD want to be competitive against their own products.

    I don’t expect them to do it. Nvidia’s CEO speaks about higher prices in the future and articles about AMD not considering changing their GPU prices where posted a few days ago. Also AMD has done this before. They replaced better performing cards – 7730, 7750 and 7770 – with slower cards – 240, 250 – at the same price points. They are doing it now again. Lower specs, higher price.

  6. Go ahead and replace your 7850 I had two in CFX and replaced it with this card and you know what I don’t regret it one bit

  7. This card even though very very good on 1080p gaming just can’t cut the mustard with 4K gaming which is where AMD pitched this card maybe if it had 4GB of Vram then it would be a much better contender

  8. damn you Nvidia fans boys come out in droves…. It isnt meant for 4k gaming … And if you want big green go with big green… damn…