Dual GPU AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 In the Works

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/15/2014 07:44 AM | source: | 72 comment(s)

It should be abundantly clear that AMD is launching a dual-GPU Hawaii based product in the upcoming weeks. We have spoken about this topic many times before, the AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 or whatever it would be called would be based on two R9 290X GPUs slapped on one PCB.

Do the math en realize that's a nice whopping 5632 Stream Processors, 352 TMUs and 128 ROPs at your disposal. In the US AMD is sending around teasrs to press, here in the EU AMD has been showing the product towards selected people. AIB/AIC partners already have been uinformed about the new product. The card will get a clock speed of 1 GHz. Word out on the street is that the X2 will be cooled with a hybrid cooling solution equipped with an external 120mm fan, which sounds rather similar to the ASUS ARES II cooler.

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pbvider
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#4782575 Posted on: 03/15/2014 01:31 AM

wow..shoking news!I guess we won`t see 20nm GPU`s this year.

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#4782580 Posted on: 03/15/2014 01:36 AM

wow..shoking news!I guess we won`t see 20nm GPU`s this year.

Why not, October - December 2014 is still far away

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#4782584 Posted on: 03/15/2014 01:57 AM

Should be mighty beefy... and pricey.

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#4782590 Posted on: 03/15/2014 02:06 AM

Yay, new hardware

Think I prefer all the rumours and other nonsense beforehand.

Hope it's something great though, the last few years have been a succession of good, but nowhere near great GPUs

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#4782595 Posted on: 03/15/2014 02:09 AM

wow..shoking news!I guess we won`t see 20nm GPU`s this year.

20nms rumoured to be a long way off, or could even be skipped.

http://techsoda.com/no-20nm-graphics-amd-nvidia/#.UxzZY3FeIPM.twitter

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#4782609 Posted on: 03/15/2014 02:37 AM

This thing is gunna have some horrendous power draw.

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#4782611 Posted on: 03/15/2014 02:40 AM

This thing is gunna have some horrendous power draw.

And some horrendous performance.

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#4782666 Posted on: 03/15/2014 08:29 AM

Just in time! In the middle of a new, all water cooled build.. I'll take two.

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#4782670 Posted on: 03/15/2014 08:51 AM

And some horrendous performance.

And some horrendous price

pbvider
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#4782683 Posted on: 03/15/2014 10:24 AM

20nms rumoured to be a long way off, or could even be skipped.

http://techsoda.com/no-20nm-graphics-amd-nvidia/#.UxzZY3FeIPM.twitter
Interesting reading,thx!

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#4782692 Posted on: 03/15/2014 11:20 AM

Should be mighty beefy... and pricey.

a smile on the user's face...
priceless

(might remember me an advertising for a famous credit card... pure coincidence)

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#4782695 Posted on: 03/15/2014 11:34 AM

7990 was not impressive and kinda poor tbh, 290x was ok card but with horrible TDP heat issues and really not worth to buy at all, it remind me the gtx 480 a lot. well i guess someone at AMD felt in love with the 480

we c how it goes, and i sure nvidia gonna counter that easily with 790.

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#4782711 Posted on: 03/15/2014 11:55 AM

if nvidia is going to respond with 790 (780tix2) it is useless...amd's idea will be much slower tbh.

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#4782741 Posted on: 03/15/2014 01:10 PM

we c how it goes, and i sure nvidia gonna counter that easily with 790.

How was a 7990 not impressive? Card was faster than GTX690 and offers was amazing at the time. Some people got for 399$ before the prices jumped through the roof.

Card is still faster than your GTX780.

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#4782780 Posted on: 03/15/2014 03:19 PM

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