14 DAY TRIAL // Hightech Information System has released the HIS R9 295X2 Liquid Cooler 8GB, which it calls the “world's fastest graphics card engineered for ultimate performance.”
You might have noticed that I’ve said, in the subtitle, that the card has the same hybrid liquid cooler as the reference card.
That's not really the most accurate way to say it. The reality is that this is every bit the reference card that AMD launched, only with a different sticker and box.
The cooler uses two water blocks for the GPUs and is combined with a heatsink, which, in turn, is cooled by the lone fan set in the middle of the contraption. The cooler was made by Asetek.
As for the specs, the dual-GPU graphics card has two Hawaii chips running at 1018 MHz, a total of 5,632. They also have 64 ROPs (so 128 raster operating units in total), and 172 TMUs x 2 (352 texture mapping units).
Each GPU has 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM backing it, and a 512-bit interface to communicate with the memory (for a total of 1,024 bit). The clock of the RAM is 5 GHz.
Unless you're a techie, that's pretty much everything worth knowing about the Vesuvius (codename of the R9 295 X2). Basically, HIS's board is the same as all the others out there, hence the price of $1,500 / €1,500.
