New Install­ment to Civi­liza­ti­on Series Bund­led With Sel­ect AMD Rade­on™ R9 290 Series Gra­phics Cards as Part of AMD Gam­ing Evol­ved Program

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/06/14 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that qua­li­fy­ing purcha­ses from par­ti­ci­pa­ting retail­ers(1) of an AMD Rade­on™ R9 295X2, R9 290X or R9 290 gra­phics card will be eli­gi­ble for a com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of 2K’s Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™.

“I per­so­nal­ly have enjoy­ed more than 500 hours of game time with the Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on® fran­chise, and I’m thril­led by what AMD and Fira­xis Games have done with the Man­t­le gra­phics API to make Bey­ond Earth™ a smooth, high-per­for­mance mar­vel,” said Roy Tay­lor, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent, ISV/IHV Part­ner Group, AMD. “AMD belie­ves that gamers should free­ly expe­ri­ence that remar­kab­le deve­lo­p­ment work, and our new Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ pro­mo­ti­on offers exact­ly that as a ‘thank you’ to new AMD Rade­on™ customers.”

Col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween Fira­xis Games and the AMD Gam­ing Evol­ved pro­gram brings deep PC opti­miza­ti­on to Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™. That opti­miza­ti­on can be expe­ri­en­ced first-hand with high per­for­mance AMD Rade­on™ R9 Series GPUs, which are rea­dy to sup­port empire-wort­hy dis­play tech­no­lo­gies like AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty and 4K UltraHD.(2),(3) Sup­port for AMD Cross­Fi­re™ tech­no­lo­gy and an excep­tio­nal imple­men­ta­ti­on of the Man­t­le gra­phics API pro­vi­des dis­cer­ning gamers with radi­cal per­for­mance and effort­less­ly smooth game­play.(4),(5)

In Civi­liza­ti­on: Bey­ond Earth play­ers lead an expe­di­ti­on from Earth to a new fron­tier, enab­ling them to explo­re and suc­cessful­ly colo­ni­ze an ali­en pla­net. The game’s sto­ry­line ven­tures into unchar­ted ter­ri­to­ry for the fran­chise as the game pro­pels the evo­lu­ti­on of human civi­liza­ti­on into the future.

Gamers can qua­li­fy for their com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ by purcha­sing a new AMD Rade­on™ R9 295X2, R9 290X or R9 290 gra­phics card from a par­ti­ci­pa­ting resel­ler start­ing Novem­ber 6, 2014. Visit amd.com/civilizationoffer for spe­ci­fic terms and conditions.

Plays best on AMD Radeon™
Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ is the first of many next-gene­ra­ti­on PC games that cra­ve lar­ger GPU frame­buf­fers, and the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290X 8GB ans­wers the chall­enge. In per­for­mance test­ing, the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290X 8GB gra­phics card with Man­t­le ren­de­red Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ at hig­her frame rates than any other sin­gle-GPU gra­phics card.(6) Gamers loo­king to secu­re the power of 8GB for their own rigs can do so from their favo­ri­te online retail­er start­ing this month.

Never Sett­le: Space Edition
In addi­ti­on to the Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ bund­le, all AMD Rade­on™ R9 295X2, R9 290X and R9 290 gra­phics cards are simul­ta­neous­ly eli­gi­ble for the Never Sett­le: Space Edi­ti­on pro­mo­ti­on. With a qua­li­fy­ing purcha­se at par­ti­ci­pa­ting resel­lers, cus­to­mers can recei­ve a Rade­on™ Gold Reward cou­pon good for three free games from a cata­log of more than 25 titles to choo­se from.(7) This offer can be com­bi­ned with the Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ pro­mo­ti­on for a total of up to four com­pli­men­ta­ry games.

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(1) Visit http://www.amd.com/civilizationoffer for spe­ci­fic terms and conditions.
(2) AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy sup­ports mul­ti­ple moni­tors on an enab­led gra­phics card. Sup­port­ed dis­play quan­ti­ty, type and reso­lu­ti­on vary by model and board design; con­firm spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons with manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purcha­se. To enable more than three dis­plays, or mul­ti­ple dis­plays from a sin­gle out­put, addi­tio­nal hard­ware such as DisplayPort™-ready moni­tors or Dis­play­Po­rt 1.2 MST-enab­led hubs may be requi­red. A maxi­mum of two acti­ve adap­ters is recom­men­ded for con­su­mer sys­tems. See www.amd.com/eyefinityfaq for full details.
(3) Requi­res 4K dis­play and con­tent. Sup­port­ed reso­lu­ti­on varies by GPU model and board design; con­firm spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons with manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purchase.
(4) Appli­ca­ti­on sup­port for Man­t­le is required.
(5) AMD Cross­Fi­re™ tech­no­lo­gy requi­res an AMD Cross­Fi­re-rea­dy mother­board, a com­pa­ti­ble AMD Cross­FireX™ bridge inter­con­nect (for each addi­tio­nal gra­phics card) and may requi­re a spe­cia­li­zed power supply.
(6) In Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™ inter­nal bench­mark test at 3840x2160, the AMD Rade­on™ R9 290X 8GB with Man­t­le out­per­forms the GeForce GTX 980 with DirectX® 11, NVIDIA’s hig­hest-per­forming sin­gle-GPU gra­phics card as of Octo­ber 20, 2014, by 45.38 avera­ge FPS to 44.89 avera­ge FPS using the Ultra in-game pre­set with 8xAA. Test sys­tem: Intel Core i7-4960X, 16GB DDR3-1866, Asus SABERTOOTH X79, Win­dows 8.1 x64, AMD Cata­lyst™ 14.9.2 Beta and Force­Wa­re 344.16 WHQL.
(7) Visit http://www.amd.com/neversettlespace for spe­ci­fic terms and conditions.