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AMD Announce R9 285 “Tonga Pro” At Celebratory Event
During the “30 Years of Graphics and Gaming Commemoration” event AMD officially announced the presence of the R9 285 graphics card. AMD claims the R9 285 GPU will be their most power efficient GPU yet, although the tech-specs are still under-wraps until its official release which is rumoured for September…
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Rumour: AMD R9 285 Launches September 2nd, Announcement 23rd August
The rumour mill has spun up once again to give us some more information about AMD’s R9 285 graphics card. The new GPU from AMD which is to be based on the Tonga silicon will reportedly get launched on September 2nd. The R9 285, or Tonga Pro, will be launched…
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AMD “Tonga” Block Diagram Reveals R9 285 Specifications
Just a few days ago pictures of upcoming AMD R9 285 graphics cards were leaked into the press, such as the Sapphire R9 285 pictured above, but at that stage we were still unsure as to what the key specifications of AMD’s R9 285 were supposed to be. Well, we…
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TechPowerUp GPU-Z 0.7.9 Released
TechPowerUp has just release the latest version of their GPU-Z, thep popular PC graphics information, monitoring and diagnostics utility that helps you with up to date information on your installed graphics hardware. The new version adds support for several new GPU’s and fixed various bugs. The list of newly supported GPU’s…
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AMD R9 280X, R9 280 and R9 270X Price Cuts Come Into Effect
We heard last week that AMD would be slashing prices on its mid-range GPUs to make way for its new Tonga GPU and now this has started to come into effect. AMD is lowering the pricing of the R9 280X and everything below it in their product stack. The first vendor…
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AMD Will Cut R9 280X and 280 Prices For New “Tonga” GPU Launch
We’ve already heard some new details about AMD’s Tonga GPU and now it emerges that the new graphics chip from AMD could force prices of existing Tahiti based graphics cards down. The R9 280X is AMD’s current $300 offering while the R9 280 is $250. With a round of price cuts…
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New AMD Tonga GPU Coming Next Month
AMD are preparing to launch a new 28nm GPU next month in a bid to counteract Nvidia’s popular GeForce GTX 760 series. Codenamed Tonga the new GPU will be replacing the much loved, but ageing Tahiti Pro hardware. AMD have already got a competitor for the GTX 760 with their…
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Breaking News: AMD Tonga GPU Details Revealed
The team over at Videocardz.com have gotten hold of some very exciting information about the next set of hardware from the red camp. AMD’s new GPU hardware is set to be called Tonga, part of their ever popular volcanic island series, following on from Hawaii and Vesuvius. There have been…
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New AMD “Volcanic Islands” And “Pirate Islands” GPUs Revealed
AMD’s next generation GPUs have been detailed and we now know they will be called Volcanic Islands and Pirate Islands. Volcanic Islands is the high end GPU stack of the next generation and features the high end single and dual GPU configurations. The highest end part is dubbed Hawaii followed…
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