14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA may have managed to overtake Advanced Micro Devices with the “launch” of the GeForce GTX Titan Z dual-chip graphics card, but the board is not yet selling, and it's looking like AMD may be the first to the pie after all.
The reason we say that is because of a certain rumor that started on the NordicHardware website.
According to them, Advanced Micro Devices will release its own dual-GPU video adapter on April 8. That's barely two weeks from now.
The card will have two Hawaii PRO graphics processing units, totaling 5,120 stream processors and dual 512-bit interfaces driving the 8 GB of GDDR5 VRAM (4 GB per chip).
I'm still wondering if maybe the card won't have 16 GB VRAM instead. It wouldn't shock me now that single-chip R9 290X boards are coming with 8 GB.
The AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 is supposed to be hybrid-cooled, meaning that the cooler has a waterblock/air-based fan hybrid.
Air cooling is what you get for your money, but if you have a water cooling system in your desktop, you can hook it up to it as well.
The price is still in the air, but I'm hoping it won't be the same $3,000 / €3,000 as for NVIDIA's Titan Z.