Radeon R9 295X2 Photo's and Specs leak in Asia
Well, you can always leave it to Chiphell (Asian website) to be the first to somehow get their hands on a disclosed product. This time it is the eagerly awaited dual-GPU monster from AMD, the Radeon R9 295X2 or 295 X2 whatever it will be named. The product seems to be a 2-slot graphics card with two fully fetched Hawaii XT GPUs with all shader active, the clock speeds are not mentioned though. The cooling is hybrid, meaning a liquid cooler for the GPU and a fan for the other components on the PCB.
The board has two Hawaii XT this R9 290X GPUs slapped on one PCB, these are internally connected with a PLX PEX8747 PCIe bridge. Do the math en realize that's a nice whopping 5632 Stream Processors, 352 TMUs and 128 ROPs at your disposal. If the mentioned specs are correct then each has a full 4 GB of memory (8 GB on the card).
Source: ChipHell
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Be interesting to see how that single 120 Rad cools both those chips! Must be using 3000RPM fans lol I imagine the core clocks won't be too high. Can't see it Overclocking to great with only that 120 rad.
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Ah, every new dual GPU solution is more expensive than the last one. 1500$ is too much AMD.
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VRM, PCB & VRAM modules are cooled traditionally, fine. I just don't understand how a 120mm rad is enough to cool Two 290X GPU cores ?
Anyone who has ever WC anything would tell you the same thing, It Is Not Enough!
Obviously you've fallen for the misinformation that the 290X is a KW TDP MONSTER! Asus did it with two 7970's and their TDP isn't much lower than the 290X, in fact in Asus Ares II I suspect it was clocked higher as it came with 3x8 pin connectors.
*Edit* I have watercooling btw.
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Yikes ~1499USD, I guess i'll be cross firing 290's then