DarkKnightDude
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it's a great card as a luxury product like Titan, also it makes Titan Z even more ridiculous for anything other than CUDA programmers, Nvidia should now be planing the GTX 790 if they want to sell dual GPU cards for gamers,
oh and they really fixed the cooling problems, that's for sure, but I wonder if partners can released a custom air cooler version for less money? because it's a shame that it costs so much more than the older dual GPU cards like the 5970-6990-7990.... but so do the single version...
It would be awesome if they would bundle 2 of these for $2500. I doubt that would ever happen tho.
I wonder how many GPUs OSx or Linux support (for gaming scenarios). Since you can mine with more then 4 apparently they are recognized it's just not supported for gaming.
So according to AT review, on most resolutions the 3Gb TI has a 5% lead, and at high resolutions (4k) this has a 5% lead.......
Is that really worth it over the cost of 2x 290x for identical performance?
Nice card. Pleasantly surprised. Now put a proper WC cooling on this beast B)
This 14.4 driver that the reviewers are using has to improve crossfire setups. That may also be the reason why the dual-gpu scores higher than the R9 290X crossfire setups.
If it was 1000-1200 they'd be selling like hotcakes. Hell @ $999 even I'd buy one.
This 14.4 driver that the reviewers are using has to improve crossfire setups. That may also be the reason why the dual-gpu scores higher than the R9 290X crossfire setups.
Asus R9 295X2 8GB was listed on "Webhallen", Sweden biggest hardware retailer, before it was taken down earlier today.
Price? 17 990 SEK ($2789]
I crosschecked prices against NewEgg, and "Webhallen" is about 10-15% more expensive on R9 290X.
So expect around $2499 for the R9 295X2
Source: http://www.sweclockers.com/nyhet/18562-amd-radeon-r9-295x2-kostar-17-990-kronor
Well at that point with 4-8 you're going to hit a CPU wall.
Just pointing this out, since I see this from time to time. No one should use other country pre-launch pricing to guess what the price will be domestically on a piece of hardware once officially launched. It simply doesn't correlate.
Did you understand the question?
That and people should perhaps check out people's post histories if they are considering that persons guesses and estimates. Wouldn't mind the 295 MSRP being a couple hundred less but with that cooling solution it's easy to see why there is a bit of extra premium over two 290X cards.
Can you put 4 of these in a rig? What mobo is needed?
Will the drivers support 8 cores, or 'just' 4?
What task are you going to use them for? For gaming, then no, you can't use more than 2 (4xGPU total). If you are going to use them for a compute task that scales beyond 4x GPU's, then yes you could use 4 on a single motherboard. For that I would recommend something like this Asus or this Asrock.
There are plenty of other boards, but these are 2 that are probably the best optimized for 4x cards and are solid performing boards, overall.
AMD stated 1 open slot required between cards. Read it it one of the reviews or AMD's site. Guessing it's for the vrm cooling.