Tuesday, June 3rd 2014
PowerColor Radeon R9 295X2 Devil13 Up Close
We went up close with PowerColor's air-cooled Radeon R9 295X2 Devil13 graphics card. Although technically an R9 295X2, the company is choosing to call it "dual-R9 290X." The card is massive, easily bigger in size than even NVIDIA's GTX TITAN-Z. It uses a huge triple-slot cooling solution with individual aluminium fin heatsinks for each of the two GPUs, and a base plate cooling the bridge chip, VRM, and memory; ventilated by three 100 mm fans that can be individually tweaked. The card draws power from four (yes, four) 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Display outputs include two dual-link DVI, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort.
When AMD chose to give the R9 295X2 liquid cooling it had only one thing on its mind, to tame its noise. Given that, the question on everyone's mind would be how loud this air-cooled card is. PowerColor's card, much like AMD's reference R9 290X, features two BIOSes, "Performance" and "Quiet." Even with all the show floor noise, the card was audible in "performance" mode. We didn't get to hear it out in the "quiet" mode, but PowerColor assured us that it's working on getting the card quiet. Unlike AMD's reference card, PowerColor may have to stiffen the card's throttle to achieve that.
When AMD chose to give the R9 295X2 liquid cooling it had only one thing on its mind, to tame its noise. Given that, the question on everyone's mind would be how loud this air-cooled card is. PowerColor's card, much like AMD's reference R9 290X, features two BIOSes, "Performance" and "Quiet." Even with all the show floor noise, the card was audible in "performance" mode. We didn't get to hear it out in the "quiet" mode, but PowerColor assured us that it's working on getting the card quiet. Unlike AMD's reference card, PowerColor may have to stiffen the card's throttle to achieve that.
9 Comments on PowerColor Radeon R9 295X2 Devil13 Up Close
I am impressed they actually utilize 4 8-pin power connectors. Should be interesting to see how this beastly card over clocks:)
Also I must have missed something, but what is the significance of the '13' in the Devil13 name?
In seriousness, I think 13 is just a scary number for those superstitious kooks. Any new block of houses built in the UK skip the number 13 as apparently it reduces the overall worth of the house.
Same with China and the number 4, is removed from houses and elevators, all are missing 4 and 44. (something to do with the number 4 being pronounced similarly to the word for death or something)And 23
Anyways devil LMAO yet another man made story and only devil there is is people.
Anyways looks sweet..