AMD Launches Exclusive Sid Meier's Civilization(R)

Beyond Earth(TM) Game Bundle With AMD Radeon(TM) R9 290 Series Graphics Cards

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 6, 2014) - 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.