Monday, March 31st 2014
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Teased, Sort of
Over the past couple of weeks, AMD is guerrilla marketing its next flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 295X2 on Twitter, under the hash-tag #2betterthan1. The first couple of pictures posted over the weeks were, well, typical AMD, showing us abstract everyday objects to drive home something meaningful. The latest one gives us more to chew on. It shows the outline of a rectangular object with a circle in the middle, and rivets lining its edges, something which we most identify with full-coverage water blocks. Could the R9 295X2 be a liquid-cooled product? We'll have to wait and see. Meanwhile, NVIDIA torpedoed AMD's plans by launching the GeForce GTX TITAN-Z earlier this month. The downer? A $3,000 price-tag. Even if AMD falls short of performance by a few percentage points, it could make NVIDIA look bad, by giving it a much lower price.
48 Comments on AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Teased, Sort of
Nvidia all they way :)
All that being said, I'd rather buy a powerful single chip GPU and then buy two of them if the performance was required. Dual chip cards are more a display of engineering prowess than an actual solution to somebody's performance requirements. I think I've met 1 person on the whole of TPU who owned a 7990, and one or maybe two who owned a 690. They become obsolete too fast.
LIquide colleng is the best. Existing air coolers on the powerful GPU cards has more or less stop-gap solution!! All air-cooled card I was ruined after two years of use not to mention room temperature !!!!:banghead: Some used here Koment for cet room but not for the actual evaluation:shadedshu:
On a more serious note, I wonder if the shroud designers are taking styling cues from the GTX 690. The AMD render(?) seems to be using the 135°/45° angular styling lines + oversized securing points that gave the Nvidia card its industrial feel. ...or you could look at theother half of the marketing...
Personally, I'd suggest that the Titan Z might replicate the original Titan marketing. Grab a few sales via the halo effect, and when the hubbub dies down, Nvidia launch a more gaming friendly (price vs features) version - a cut down GTX 790...just as Nvidia did with the GTX 780 after the Titan debut.
1500$ and less...
As long as they would do that (If they have to in order to control the thermals) I am fine with it. And I will buy one!
Might as well wait for ARES III who will be using full blown chips.
That doesnt mean i dont want to see how the actual 295x2 looks like. To bad i have to wait more for that.