It still comes in the reference cooler and the good old aluminum suitcase, like the others

Apr 24, 2014 11:31 GMT  ·  By

The dual-GPU Radeon R9 295 X2 graphics card from Advanced Micro Devices is already pretty overpowered, but Sapphire decided that even this board shouldn't go by without being factory-overclocked at least a little bit.

So, even though 1018 MHz is already a lot for any single graphics card, dual-GPU or not, Sapphire managed to push the adapter to 1030 MHz.

Meanwhile, the memory was driven to 5.2 GHz (normally, it operates at 5 GHz).

And it managed to do it without having to resort to a different cooler, like the full R9 295 X2 water block from Aqua Computer.

Not that the reference cooler is weak. How could it, when it has both water cooling and air cooling combined?

Anyway, the newcomer is otherwise the same as the standard board, though the price should be a bit above the default $1,500 / €1,500. Sadly, Sapphire didn't release the exact tag borne by the Radeon R9 295 X2 OC.

I'd say Sapphire did really well here. People looking to get a top-tier video card probably don't care about price anyway, so the extra speed will make this new card preferable to all others like it.

Now I'm just wondering how things will proceed once NVIDIA releases its $3,000 / €3,000 GTX Titan Z next week.