14 DAY TRIAL // We may not have seen the reference AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 graphics card yet, not in official press shots, but ASUS was kind enough to provide some photos of its own version.
And by version, I mean the card as it is, in its default state, but packaged in a proprietary box.
Well, technically, Advanced Micro Devices did reveal the video card, confirming that it has a hybrid cooler and that it comes in a metal briefcase. That much, at least, was clear in the trailer.
It's also pretty clear that the card will have 8 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, 4 GB per Hawaii graphics processing unit (GPU). DirectX 11.2 support is a given as well.
The same goes for the physical traits that come naturally from having two high-end GCN GPUs: 5,632 stream processors, 352 TMUs (texture mapping units), 128 ROPs (raster operating units) and 1,024 memory bandwidth (512 per chip).
Without a doubt, the Radeon R9 295 X2 will be the best AMD video card yet, even if the GPUs end up slower, frequency-wise, than the R9 290X (due to power concerns).
Speaking of which, the TDP will be somewhere between 300W and 400W. Possibly 375W (two 8-pin ports + 75W form the PCI Express slot), but previous reports suggested 500W (improbable but not impossible).
