PowerColor Radeon R9 295X2 Review

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Overclockers Club published a review on the PowerColor Radeon R9 295X2

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Having what could be billed as the fastest video card on the planet is tantamount to having your cake and eating it too. Looking at the specifications alone and knowing how potent the R9 290X is, there is not a game out that can bring it to its knees at 1920x1080 using the maximum in-game settings. That's a pretty tall order because this card is fully ready for some 4K gaming at its finest using better-than-medium settings. Packed with the best graphics processors AMD has to offer, there are no neutered cores in this rendition of CrossFireX on a single PCB from AMD like we have seen in the past. The downside is that AMD's Hawaii GPU on the 290X is a hot-running core, as we saw looking at the reference versions earlier this year. We also saw that, when equipped with adequate cooling, the cores would no longer throttle the clock speeds at stock speeds, nor as quickly when voltage and additional clock speed were added to the equation.

Cooling has been made a primary concern at this point, and AMD and its partners have equipped the R9 295X2 with an all-in-one water cooling system from Asetek to handle the thermal load of not one, but two cores. Building a card of this caliber puts it into rarefied air, both for the performance it can deliver and the engineering that had to take place to get this kind of firepower on one PCB. That kind of graphics power does not come cheap by any means. A pair of water cooled R9 290X cards currently run about $1400, while the R9 295X2 is going for a $1499 price point. I've been waiting a while to get my hands on one of these, so let's see what it has to offer for the hardcore gamer.
 PowerColor Radeon R9 295X2 Review @ OCC