Announcement of graphics solutions from AMD codenamed Tonga was promised in late August or early September. Last month of summer is inexorably approaching its equator, which means gaining momentum Tonga preparing to debut. In turn, activated and various information resources spy wing.
Initially will be presented Radeon R9 285 card based on GPUs Tonga PRO - AMD nomenclature suffix PRO indicates less advanced solution than, for example, XT. Graphics cards will be equipped with a small cooling systems, and some of them will have a length of PCB no more than 17 centimeters (format mini-ITX).
It is known that the Radeon R9 285 will receive 2 GB of GDDR5 memory with 256 bit interface and the effective frequency of 5500 MHz, which corresponds to a peak capacity of 176 GB / s. GPU frequency is equal to 918 MHz, but its configuration is unknown - full crystal Tonga has 2048 stream processors, as will suffer PRO-version is hard to say.