[ WccfTech ] ASUS Radeon R9 295X2 8 GB ‘Vesuvius’ Retail Model Spotted

[KaRLiToS]

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ASUS Radeon R9 295X2 8 GB ‘Vesuvius’ Retail Model Spotted
The ASUS Radeon R9 295X2 ‘Vesuvius’ features the Hawaii XT cores with GCN 1.1 architecture. With two Hawaii XT GPUs on the same board, the specifications equate to 2816 x 2 stream processors, 176 x 2 texture mapping units, 64 x 2 Raster Operators and 4 GB of GDDR5 memory on each chip which equates to a total of 8 GB GDDR5 memory. Double these and you get an impressive 5632 stream processors, 352 TMUs and 128 ROPs for an unprecedented amount of gaming and compute performance. Clock speeds are maintained at 1018 MHz for the core which is impressive considering AMD managed to clock their chip 18 MHz faster than the stock variant without worrying about the heat. This shows that the new cooling design has things well kept under control. The 8 GB GDDR5 memory runs across a 512-Bit X 2 memory bus that is clocked at 1250 MHz effective clock speed.


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[DooKey]

Cool card. I'd love to see it for $1250 and I'd probably bite then.

 

[TreVader]

Was hoping for 1100 but I guess half the price of titan Z is OK :/




Somebodys price "leak" turned out to be only 1000 too high, that's pretty good for pulling numbers straight out your a$$

 

[KaRLiToS]

Was hoping for 1100 but I guess half the price of titan Z is OK :/

Somebodys price "leak" turned out to be only 1000 too high, that's pretty good for pulling numbers straight out your a$$

I was hoping for 1100$ too or maybe 1200$.

Half the price of the Titan Z is not ok because the price of the Titan Z is not even OK. But that is not the topic.

 

[moonbogg]

Again, nice card but prices are just way out of control and have been this whole generation. Traditionally a card like this would be about $800.00

 

[KaRLiToS]

Again, nice card but prices are just way out of control and have been this whole generation. Traditionally a card like this would be about $800.00

800$ is on the extreme low side to be honest.

I remember paying my BGF Tech 8800GTX OC2 for 760$ (CAN)

 

[loccothan]

Nice Monster o_0 we have to see what it can in GAMES !!!

 

[24601]

Anything over 1k USD is pointless.

You can get R9 290x's for ~400 USD

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...R9+280x"&_nkw=R9+290x+-"R9+280x"&_sacat=27386

 

[DooKey]

Anything over 1k USD is pointless.

You can get R9 290x's for ~400 USD

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...R9+280x"&_nkw=R9+290x+-"R9+280x"&_sacat=27386

Come on, man. You are seriously going to compare used prices to a new card? $1500 is way to much for a 295x2, but comparing used prices to make it look even worse is a major foul.

 

[24601]

Come on, man. You are seriously going to compare used prices to a new card? $1500 is way to much for a 295x2, but comparing used prices to make it look even worse is a major foul.

If you don't care about price, get dual Titan Z's.

The glut of used 1-3 month old R9-290s and R9-290x's doesn't magically not get factored into a buyer's mind.

The fact that you can get a R9-290 for 770's MSRP and a R9-290x for R9-290's MSRP is a pretty amazing deal.

 

[KaRLiToS]

If you don't care about price, get dual Titan Z's.

The glut of used 1-3 month old R9-290s and R9-290x's doesn't magically not get factored into a buyer's mind.

The fact that you can get a R9-290 for 770's MSRP and a R9-290x for R9-290's MSRP is a pretty amazing deal.

Do you pretend the Titan Z to be better than the R9 295x2 ? Because we don't have any proof of that yet! In fact, I might believe they will be on par...

 

[24601]

Do you pretend the Titan Z to be better than the R9 295x2 ? Because we don't have any proof of that yet! In fact, I might believe they will be on par...

Yes, so we can all have fun in MST hell together at 4k.

 

[Attic]

Anything over 1k USD is pointless.

You can get R9 290x's for ~400 USD

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...R9+280x"&_nkw=R9+290x+-"R9+280x"&_sacat=27386

Wow@ those prices. Yep, agreed here. If looking for the power of dual 290 and 290x then the 295 is going to have hard time vs what's dropping on eBay.

But it may be limited and unique enough that the used mining market for 290s doesn't effect it much if at all.

 

[TreVader]

Why would Titan Z ever be considered a better option than this? 290X CF is faster than Titan Z at 3k+



There was zero probability that this card would be sold for less than 1k. Its the fastest single card on earth. Funny thing is with Hawaii 1/8th DP, it beats Titan Black and is competitive with Titan Z in DP GFLOPs/$ LOL

 

[AtenRa]

I believe I gave you the price 3 days ago in the other thread.

At $1500 you get the fastest single PCB Graphics Card with Water Cooling. Im not going to buy one but price is not that bad for what it delivers.

 

[TreVader]

I believe I gave you the price 3 days ago in the other thread.

At $1500 you get the fastest single PCB Graphics Card with Water Cooling. Im not going to buy one but price is not that bad for what it delivers.

There were a lot of prices floating around. This is the exact same price as the ASUS 7990 water-cooled. It's actually a pretty good deal if you consider that a single 780ti is $700, but for AMD this price is pretty standard.



If this was nvidia releasing a Titan Z like card at 1499, people would lose their minds.

 

[Vesku]

There were a lot of prices floating around. This is the exact same price as the ASUS 7990 water-cooled. It's actually a pretty good deal if you consider that a single 780ti is $700, but for AMD this price is pretty standard.



If this was nvidia releasing a Titan Z like card at 1499, people would lose their minds.

I agree with your assessment at least when "people" means "hardware forum posters". Price, assuming it's accurate, isn't terrible for those looking for the most out of a single PCIe slot especially with Nvidia's assault on the GPU cost/performance curve with the Titan Z.

 

[Elixer]

Hmm 500W... yeah, that water cooler must come in handy!
Since MSRP is $1500, that means, they will sell them for $2000 if not more, as the miners gobble them up.

 

[Techhog]

Hmm 500W... yeah, that water cooler must come in handy!
Since MSRP is $1500, that means, they will sell them for $2000 if not more, as the miners gobble them up.

The GPU mining craze is pretty much over. Look at prices now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...BESTMATCH&Description=r9+290x&N=-1&isNodeId=1

Also, this isn't a good deal for miners. They don't get anything out or the extra money they'd have to spend for this.

 

[Elixer]

For what it is worth...
http://www.techpowerup.com/199508/radeon-r9-295x2-press-deck-leaked.html

 

[Techhog]

Man, i want this card just for its looks lol.

Also, are they really gonna advertise this as an 8GB card? Goddammit AMD...

 

[RaistlinZ]

Are we going to see AIB makers with their own variants of this card?

 

[Techhog]

Are we going to see AIB makers with their own variants of this card?

Good question. I don't see a reason to tbh. It's too expensive to be mainstream, and the temps will probably be very low on the reference cooler anyway. No air cooler could beat this. Hawaii sings on water.

 

[NTMBK]

Good question. I don't see a reason to tbh. It's too expensive to be mainstream, and the temps will probably be very low on the reference cooler anyway. No air cooler could beat this. Hawaii sings on water.

Swap out the 120mm radiator for a 240mm radiator (or a pair of 120mms) for the more extreme overclockers, ship it, go for lunch.

 

[alcoholbob]

Yes, so we can all have fun in MST hell together at 4k.

The new Samsung 4K monitors have new controllers that don't use the MST method--it works at 4K60 out of the box.