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HIS R9 285 IceQ X2 OC 2GB GDDR5 Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2014-11-04

As the R9 285 OC model from Gigabyte, the HIS R9 285 IceQ X2 2GB OC video card is based on the Tonga architecture and is using a new form of compression for frame buffer color data, which reduces the amount of memory bandwidth required for buffer operations. The product is overclocked from the factory but not as high as the Gigabyte R9 285 OC so the overall results were a bit lower in the synthetic benchmarks but also inside the games. However, we could overclock the card quite a bit with the supplied utility and have reached similar performance when the card was maxed-out.

A Closer Look Contd.

The 90mm dual axial fans have 11 blades and in the middle HIS has placed an iTurbo sticker:

An IceQ X2 logo is to be found on the top left side:

The opposite corner is occupied with an OC logo, telling us that we are dealing with a pre-overclocked card from the factory:

The lateral shots are showing the complexity of the cooling system for the HIS R9 285 OC:

On the back side of the PCB we will be able to spot some factory stickers, along with the GPU back plate:

The heatsink is noticeably longer than the PCB:

The R9 285 needs extra juice from two 6-pin PCI-Express connectors; nearby we have the 4-pin fan connector which supplies power to both fans:

As outputs, we will see one DLDVI-I, one DLDVI-D, one DisplayPort but also one HDMI:

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