Tuesday, April 1st 2014
Radeon R9 295X2 Pictured in the Flesh, Specs Leaked
Here it is, folks! The first pictures of what you get inside the steel briefcase AMD ships the Radeon R9 295X2 in. AMD got over the stonewall of having to cool two 250W GPUs with a single two-slot cooling solution, by making it an air+liquid hybrid. The cooler appears to have been designed by any of the major water-cooling OEMs (such as Asetek, Akasa, etc.), and most likely consists of a pair of pump-blocks plumbed to a single 120 x 120 mm radiator, over a single coolant loop. The coolant channel, we imagine, could be identical to that of the ROG ARES 2 by ASUS. There's also a 90 mm fan, but that probably cools heatsinks covering the memory, VRM, and PCIe bridge. The card draws power from two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, which as you'll soon find out, are running at off-specs.
The Radeon R9 295X2, codenamed "Vesuvius," runs a pair of 28 nm "Hawaii" chips, routed to a PLX PEX8747 PCIe bridge. Each of the two have all 2,816 stream processors enabled, totaling the count to 5,632. The two also have 352 TMUs, and 128 ROPs between them. The entire 512-bit memory bus width is enabled, and each GPU is wired to 4 GB of memory totaling 8 GB on the card. Clock speeds remain a mystery, and probably hold the key to a lot of things, such as power draw and cooling. Lastly, there's the price. AMD could price the R9 295X2 at US $1,499, half that of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN-Z. In that price difference, heck, even for $500, you could probably buy yourself a full-coverage water block, and a full-fledged loop, complete with a meaty 3 x 120 mm radiator.
Sources:
ChipHell, WCCFTech
The Radeon R9 295X2, codenamed "Vesuvius," runs a pair of 28 nm "Hawaii" chips, routed to a PLX PEX8747 PCIe bridge. Each of the two have all 2,816 stream processors enabled, totaling the count to 5,632. The two also have 352 TMUs, and 128 ROPs between them. The entire 512-bit memory bus width is enabled, and each GPU is wired to 4 GB of memory totaling 8 GB on the card. Clock speeds remain a mystery, and probably hold the key to a lot of things, such as power draw and cooling. Lastly, there's the price. AMD could price the R9 295X2 at US $1,499, half that of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN-Z. In that price difference, heck, even for $500, you could probably buy yourself a full-coverage water block, and a full-fledged loop, complete with a meaty 3 x 120 mm radiator.
72 Comments on Radeon R9 295X2 Pictured in the Flesh, Specs Leaked
Sigh... oh well still can't wait to see some benchmarks.
1200 or 1199 if it's better for you.
it would've been 1099 but I added 100$ more for the cooler.
You could be right.... maybe a April Fools day joke!
Everything looks cheap for 1500 bills graphics card...
April fool...
Anyway why not. Beastly, but also pretty uninteresting to me.
- R10 Zeus
- Triple-slot air-cooler with 3 fans
- Two chips with 3072 SPs enabled each
- 16 GB total memory
- 1050 MHz GPU, 6200 MHz memory
- Three 8-pin connectors, two piggy-backed to each other, GTX 680 style.
- $1,199 price.
Go.performance had better be:
for collectors.
Concerns that could have a copper block and would only 1 slot thick if I see correctly!
I m missing operating frequency and what is written already know. I see no reason for a table on which there are data that everyone knows and nothing you do not know.
The zip ties make this thing look like $1500.
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The hoses look a bit too short.
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There's another fan on the card? Under a fan grill?
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Eww.
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April 1st? Trolololol.
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