ASUS Radeon R9 285 Strix Graphics Card Pictured

[btarunr]

Here are some of the first detailed shots of ASUS' premium custom-design Radeon R9 285 Strix graphics card, based on AMD's upcoming GPU. The card features a unique cooling solution that keeps its fans off until the GPU reaches a temperature threshold. The cooler's underlying heatsink is essentially DirectCU II, featuring a dense aluminium fin stack to which heat drawn directly from the GPU die is fed by a number of nickel-plated copper heat pipes. This particular card features a factory-overclock, and 2 GB of memory. Oh, and it comes with a back-plate. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, the R9 285 features 1,792 Graphics CoreNext 1.1 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The card is set to launch on 2nd September, 2014. It will start at US $249.



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[|cpm]

I wish It would not be longer than 10 inches but this Asus seems to be at least 10.5-11 inches long..
So far only XFX managed to make a <10 inch 285 (and maybe HIS)

edit: well Sapphire joined the sff the party
http://www.sapphiretech.com/present...d=1&gid=3&sgid=1227&pid=2444&psn=000101&lid=1

6.7 inches 285

 

[Ronnyv1]

can't wait to see the efficiency of this card if sapphire believes that little thing can keep it cool

 

[dj-electric]

These are just the Ebay images from the sale a couple of days ago...