Tuesday, April 8th 2014
AMD Announces the Radeon R9 295X2 Graphics Card
AMD announced its flagship graphics card for this generation, the dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2. Based on a pair of fully-loaded "Hawaii" GPUs, the same ones that drive the R9 290X, the card features a premium built with an air+liquid hybrid cooling solution. Each of the card's two chips feature 2,816 GCN2 stream processors, 176 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interfaces, holding 4 GB of memory. The total memory amount on the card is hence 8 GB. It uses a PLX PEX8747 PCIe gen 3.0 x48 bridge chip to marshal data between the two GPUs, and the rest of the system. The best part, it draws power from just two 8-pin PCIe power connectors. AMD is asking US $1,499 for the R9 295X2, which is half that of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX TITAN-Z. It should be available for purchase on April 21.
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Edit: I think the radiator might be a touch too thin for cooling those monster GPUs. I have a R9-290 in my office that we use for OpenCL programming and that card runs too hot even with an AC.
btw i would like to see it in full water cooled or full air cooled with triple slot maybe
in other words it will help the brand to promote their product.
so every new stuff launched we gonna have many press release from various brands
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