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this video is brought to you by NCI XCOM great technology selection and service hello everyone this is Dmitry with hurricane axe and we see many mini ITX and micro ATX cases starting to strive within the gaming community as the demand for compatible hardware is growing as we want to build ourselves you know the smallest yet powerful systems so today we're taking a look at the Sapphire r9 285 this is a m-- these latest tonga GPU and we'll be seeing how the compact edition of the card that is significantly shorter at just 171 millimeters compares to the dual X version of the same GPU and to get the specs right out of the way the r9 285 has 1792 streaming processors with two gigabytes of vram on a 256 bit bus the compact Edition is clocked slightly lower at 928 megahertz in the core and 1375 big Hertz on the memory while the dual X is tap higher at 956 megahertz on the core and fourteen hundred megahertz on the memory and I really want to see whether or not you can squeeze just as much performance out of the compact edition of the card you know given the smaller cooler for those mini ITX builds so you're looking at power without compromise the cooler on this card looks quite nice with aluminum accents and single 85 millimeter fan keeps the GPU surprisingly cool we'll take a look at the benchmarks later in the video there are a total of four heatpipes dual eight millimeter and dual six millimeters that are visible from the top but they complement sort of the compact nature of the cooler with no significant part Rouge ins and checking out the dual X card the purple accents on the shroud are not exactly color friendly if you want to color match to your build the four heat pipes exit through the bottom of the cooler and dual 85 millimeter fans give the card quiet with excellent cooling the cards do not have back plates unfortunately but at least the PCBs are black both the compact and dual X have BIOS which for legacy and UEFI that's located where the cross five fingers usually are but these new Tonga GPUs utilize PCI Express bus for crossfire communications the r9 285 compact requires a single pin for a total of 150 watts of power delivery while the dual X version requires two 6-pin for power for display connectivity they are also a little bit different the dual X features dual link DVI I and dual link DVI D HDMI and DisplayPort 1.2 while the compact is equipped with two mini display outputs HDMI and dual link DVI I and now let's go onto the benchmarks that would be really interesting to see how the Mini ITX compact version will play out compared to the larger duo legs I was able to seamlessly overclock the compact to 1039 megahertz on the 4 and 1500 megahertz on the memory that is a substantial about 11% increase the dual X card overclocked slightly better reaching a maximum stable clocks of 1080 megahertz and 1500 megahertz on the core and the memory respectively and as I was benchmarking the r9 285 I was so surprised to find such excellent results for 1080p gaming everything on high that I also did 1440p gaming benchmarks and as you can see the results are right in front of you and they are really impressive now the dual X was cooler both at idle and load understandably so that extra heatsink real estate and the extra fan but while did the Sapphire do a good job on the compact cooler with just a few degrees harder and because the fan has to ramp up it was slightly louder than the tool X and so the r9 25 Mini ITX compact edition from sapphire is an absolute beast of a card for tight spaces that perform so well in games especially when compared head-to-head with the bigger brother the R 925 dual X and you can begin to think about you know building yourself a really tiny PC without compromising on GPU power so we hope you enjoyed this performance review video of the Sapphire r9 285 compact and dual X cards and let us know what card you'd like us to review next Zowie say thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe for more similar content and give us like if you found this video helpful and we'll see you in the next one