Radeon 295×2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Specs

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Although the days of AMD’s “small die” strategy have long since ended, one aspect of AMD’s strategy that they have stuck with since the strategy’s inception has been the concept of a dual-GPU card. AMD’s first modern dual-GPU card, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 (sorry, Rage Fury MAXX), came at a low point for the company where such a product was needed just to close the gap between AMD’s products and NVIDIA’s flagship big die video cards. However with AMD’s greatly improved fortune these days, AMD no longer has to play just to tie but they can play to win. AMD’s dual-GPU cards have evolved accordingly and these days they are the high-flying flagships of AMD’s lineup, embodying the concept of putting as much performance into a single card as is reasonably possible.

The last time we took a look at a new AMD dual-GPU video card was just under a year ago, when AMD launched the Radeon HD 7990. Based on AMD’s then-flagship Tahiti GPUs, the 7990 was a solid design that offered performance competitive with a dual card (7970GHz Edition Crossfire) setup while fixing many of the earlier Radeon HD 6990’s weaknesses. However the 7990 also had its shares of weaknesses and outright bad timing – it came just 2 months after NVIDIA released their blockbuster GeForce GTX Titan, and it also launched at a time right when the FCAT utility became available, enabling reliable frame pacing analysis and exposing the weak points in AMD’s drivers at the time.

Since then AMD has been hard at work on both the software and hardware sides of their business, sorting out their frame pacing problems but also launching new products in the process. Most significant among these was the launch of their newer GCN 1.1 Hawaii GPU, and the Radeon R9 290 series cards that are powered by it. Though Tahiti remains in AMD’s product stack, Hawaii’s greater performance and additional features heralded the retail retirement of the dual-Tahiti 7990, once again leaving an opening in AMD’s product stack.

That brings us to today and the launch of the Radeon R9 295X2. After much consumer speculation and more than a few teasers, AMD is releasing their long-awaited Hawaii-powered entry to their dual-GPU series of cards. With Hawaii AMD has a very powerful (and very power hungry) GPU at their disposal, and for its incarnation in the R9 295X2 AMD is going above and beyond anything they’ve done before, making it very clear that they’re playing to win.

AMD GPU Specification Comparison
	AMD Radeon R9 295X2	AMD Radeon R9 290X	AMD Radeon HD 7990	AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Stream Processors	2 x 2816	2816	2 x 2048	2048
Texture Units	2 x 176	176	2 x 128	128
ROPs	2 x 64	64	2 x 32	32
Core Clock	?	727MHz	950MHz	1000MHz
Boost Clock	1018MHz	1000MHz	1000MHz	1050MHz
Memory Clock	5GHz GDDR5	5GHz GDDR5	6GHz GDDR5	6GHz GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	2 x 512-bit	512-bit	2 x 384-bit	384-bit
VRAM	2 x 4GB	4GB	2 x 3GB	3GB
FP64	1/8	1/8	1/4	1/4
TrueAudio	Y	Y	N	N
Transistor Count	2 x 6. 2B	6.2B	2 x 4.31B	4.31B
Typical Board Power	500W	250W	375W	250W
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm	TSMC 28nm
Architecture	GCN 1.1	GCN 1. 1	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
GPU	Hawaii	Hawaii	Tahiti	Tahiti
Launch Date	04/21/2014	10/24/2013	04/23/2013	06/22/2012
Launch Price	$1499	$549	$999	$549

Starting with a brief look of the specifications, much of the Radeon R9 295X2’s design, goals, and performance can be observed in the specifications alone. Whereas the 7990 was almost a 7970GE Crossfire setup on a single card, AMD is not making any compromises for the R9 295X2, equipping the card with a pair of fully enabled Hawaii GPUs and then clocking them even higher than their single-GPU flagship, the R9 290X. As a result unlike AMD’s past dual-GPU cards, which made some performance tradeoffs in the name of power consumption and heat, AMD’s singular goal with the R9 295X2 is to offer the complete performance of a R9 290X “Uber” Crossfire setup on a single card.

Altogether this means we’re looking at a pair of top-tier Hawaii GPUs, each with their full 2816 SPs and 64 ROPs enabled. AMD has set the boost clock on these GPUs to 1018MHz – just 2% faster than the 290X – which means performance is generally a wash compared to the R9 290X in CF, but none the less offering just a bit more performance that should offset the penalties from the additional latency the necessary PCIe bridge chip introduces. Otherwise compared to the retired 7990, the R9 295X2 should be a far more capable card, offering 40% more shading/texturing performance and 2x the ROP throughput of AMD’s previous flagship. Like the R9 290X compared to the 7970GHz we’re still looking at what are fundamentally parts from the same generation and made on the same 28nm process, so AMD doesn’t get the benefits of a generational improvement in architectures and manufacturing, but even within the confines of 28nm AMD has been able to do quite a bit with Hawaii to improve their performance over Tahiti based products.

Meanwhile AMD is taking the same no-compromises strategy when it comes to memory. The R9 290X was equipped with 4GB of 5GHz GDDR5, operating on a 512-bit memory bus, and for the R9 295X2 in turn each GPU is getting the same 4GB of memory on the same bus. The fact that AMD has been able to lay down 1024 GDDR5 memory bus lines on a single board is no small feat (the wails of the engineers can be heard for miles), and while it is necessary to keep up with the 290X we weren’t entirely sure if AMD was going to be able and willing to pull it off. Nonetheless, the end result is that each GPU gets the same 320GB/sec as the 290X does, and compared to the 7990 this is an 11% increase in memory bandwidth, not to mention a 33% increase in memory capacity.

Now as can be expected by any card labeled a “no compromises” card by its manufacturer, all of this performance does come at a cost. Hawaii is a very powerful GPU but it is also very power hungry; AMD has finally given us an official Typical Board Power (TBP) for the R9 290X of 250W, and with R9 295X2 AMD is outright doubling it. R9 295X2 is a 500W card, the first 500W reference card from either GPU manufacturer.

As one can expect, moving 500W of heat is no easy task. AMD came close once before with the 6990 – a card designed to handle up to 450W in its AUSUM mode – but the 6990 was dogged by the incredibly loud split blower AMD needed to use to cool the beast. For the 7990 AMD dropped their sights and their power target to just 375W, and at the same time went to a large open air blower that allowed them to offer a dual-GPU card with reasonable noise levels. But for the R9 295X2 AMD is once again turning up the heat, requiring new methods of cooling if they want to offer 500W of cooling while maintaining reasonable noise levels.

To dissipate 500W of heat AMD has moved past blowers and even open air coolers, and moved on to a closed loop liquid cooler (CLLC). We’ll cover AMD’s cooling apparatus in more detail when we take a closer look at the construction of the R9 295X2, but as with AMD’s 500W target AMD is charting new territory for a reference card by making a CLLC the baseline cooler. With two Asetek pumps and a 120mm radiator to dissipate heat, the R9 295X2 is a significant departure from AMD’s past designs and an equally significant change in the traditionally conservative system requirements for a reference card.

In any case, the fact that AMD went this route isn’t wholly surprising – there aren’t too many ways to move 500W of heat – but the lack of significant binning did catch us off guard. Dual-GPU cards are often (but not always) using highly binned GPUs to further contain power consumption, which isn’t something AMD has done this time around, and hence the reason for the R9 295X2’s doubled power consumption. So long as AMD can remove the heat then they’ll be fine, and from our test results it’s clear that AMD has definitely done some binning, but none the less it’s interesting that we aren’t seeing as aggressive binning here as in past years.

Finally, let’s dive into pricing, availability, and competition. Given the relatively exotic cooling requirements for the R9 295X2, it comes as no great surprise that AMD is targeting the same luxury video card crowd that the GTX Titan pioneered last year when it premiered at $1000. This means using more expensive cooling devices, a greater emphasis on build quality with a focus on metal shrouding, and a few gimmicks to make the card stand out in windowed cases. To that end the R9 295X2 will by its very nature be an extremely low volume part, but if AMD has played their cards right it will be the finest card they have ever built.

The price for that level of performance and quality on a single card will be $1499 (€1099 + VAT), $500 higher than the 7990’s $999 launch price, and similarly $500 higher than NVIDIA’s closest competitor, the GTX Titan Black. With two R9 290Xs running for roughly $1200 at current prices, we’ve expected for some time that a dual-GPU Hawaii card would be over $1000, so AMD isn’t too far off from our expectations. Ultimately AMD’s $1500 price tag amounts to a $300 premium for getting two 290Xs on to a single card, along with the 295X2’s much improved build quality and more complex cooling apparatus. Meanwhile GPU complexity and heat density has reached a point where the cost of putting together a dual-GPU card is going to exceed the cost of a single card, so these kinds of dual-GPU premiums are going to be here to stay.

As always, the R9 295X2’s competition will be a mix of dual video card setups such as dual R9 290Xs and dual GTX 780 Tis, and of course NVIDIA’s forthcoming dual-GPU card. When it comes to dual video card setups the latter will always be cheaper than a single dual-GPU card, so the difference lies in the smaller space requirements of a single video card and the power/heat/noise savings that such a card provides. In the AMD ecosystem the reference 290X is dogged by its loud reference cooler, so as we’ll see in our test results the R9 295X2 will have a significant advantage over the 290X when it comes to noise.

Meanwhile in NVIDIA’s ecosystem, NVIDIA has the dual GTX 780 Ti, the dual GTX Titan Black, and the GTX Titan Z. The dual GTX 780 Ti is going to be closest competitor to the R9 295X2 at roughly $1350, with a pair of GTX Titan Blacks carrying both a performance edge and a significant price premium. As for the GTX Titan Z, NVIDIA’s forthcoming dual-GPU card is scheduled to launch later this month, and while it should be a performance powerhouse it’s also going to retail at $3000, twice the price of the R9 295X2. So although the GTX Titan Z can be used for gaming, we’re expecting it to be leveraged more for its compute performance than its gaming performance. In any case based on NVIDIA’s theoretical performance figures we have a strong suspicion that the GTX Titan Z is underclocked for TDP reasons, so it remains to be seen whether it’s even gaming performance competitive with the R9 295X2.

For availability the R9 295X2 will be a soft launch for AMD, with AMD announcing the card 2 weeks ahead of its expected retail date. AMD tells us that the card should start appearing at retailers and in boutique systems on the week of April 21^st, and while multiple AMD partners will be offering this card we don’t have a complete list of partners at this time (but expect it to be a short list). The good news is that unlike most of AMD’s recent product launches, we aren’t expecting availability to be a significant problem. Due to the price premium over a pair of 290Xs and recent drops in cryptocoin value, it’s unlikely that miners will want the 295X2, meaning the demand and customer base should follow the more traditional gamer demand curves.

Finally, it’s worth noting that unlike the launch of the 7990, AMD isn’t doing any game bundle promotions for the R9 295X2. AMD hasn’t been nearly as aggressive on game bundles this year, and in the case of the R9 295X2 there isn’t a specific product (e. g. GTX Titan) that AMD needs to counter. Any pack-in items – be it games or devices – will be the domain of the board partners this time around. Also, the AMD Mystery Briefcase was just a promotional item, so partners won’t be packing their retail cards quite so extravagantly.

Meet the Radeon R9 295X2: Cooling & Power Delivery
The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 ReviewMeet the Radeon R9 295X2: Cooling & Power DeliveryMeet the Radeon R9 295X2: Build Quality & Performance ExpectationsRevisiting the Radeon HD 7990 & Frame PacingThe TestMetro: Last LightCompany of Heroes 2Bioshock InfiniteBattlefield 4Crysis 3Crysis: WarheadTotal War: Rome 2ThiefGRID 2SyntheticsComputePower, Temperature, & NoiseFinal Words

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Factory-fitted liquid cooling system

In an industry first, the AMD Radeon™ R9 295X2 graphics card reference design ships with an advanced closed-loop liquid cooling system developed jointly with Asetek.  Enjoy cool temperatures, quiet operation and consistently high performance, right out of the box.

All metal construction

Built from striking powder coated aluminum, this GPU is beautiful to behold. It’s built to our highest standards, and it sends a message that’s loud and clear: this is serious hardware.

Mantle technology

There’s optimization, and then there’s Mantle technology. Games enabled with Mantle speak the language of Graphics Core Next to unlock revolutionary performance and image quality.

AMD TrueAudio technology

Technology that puts the magic of surround sound into every headset and helps give sound engineers the freedom to innovate in ways they’ve never had before. This is what the future of PC gaming sounds like.

Ultra resolution powerhouse

For some gamers, having enough isn’t the point. For them, overkill is merely a starting point. That means extreme resolutions, multiple monitors and sliders to the max. Run ultra settings in 4K with impunity. Or get two million pixels more than 4K by combining five HD screens in an AMD Eyefinity technology setup.⁴ Either way, the AMD Radeon R9 295X2 barely breaks a sweat.

Built for Crossfire

The card features the Next Generation CrossFire support for up to 5 GPUs with No interconnect bridge required.

New Technology, New Experiences

GCN
With AMD 2nd generation GCN technology, the card optimizes DirectX® 12 gaming performance automatically up to 2.5 times faster! It also offers up to 4.5x compute performance and up to 95% lower GPU Idle Power Consumption!

Apps Faster & Smoother!
The card enables a “quality graphics” experience on everyday applications, giving huge performance boosts on image processing, file compression, media converter apps, and a lot more!

• Adobe Photoshop CS6
• Corel Winzip 16. 5
• Musemage
• Handbrake
• MotionDSP Vreveal
• GIMP
• Cyberlink Power Director
• ArcSoft Media Converter

AMD TrueAudio

AMD Eyefinity
Set up Eyefinity on 3 displays with No ACTIVE DisplayPort Adapter is needed.

PCI-e 3.0 Support
Armed with the latest PCI-e 3.0 bus design maximizes performance by delivering double bandwidth per lane of PCI-e 2.x. Paired the card with the latest platforms and get the ultimate performance!

More Graphics, Less Power!
The new architecture of the card gets more usable processing power for your money, enabling better frame rates in the latest games at high resolutions. In addition, with AMD ZeroCore Power & AMD PowerTune technologies, you can optimize the balance between performance and power consumption of your system by adjusting the engine clock during runtime of the card. Manage the power and keep your wallet loaded!

See More, Enjoy More!
The card supports 30” LCD monitor and any large size TV up to 80″ feature with 16:9 ratio in amazing 4096 by 2160 resolution. Up-scaling your computer into a multimedia center with the biggest display!

Enjoy HD Beauty
With Full HD 1080p support, the card delivers high quality 1920X1080 graphics, enabling seamless full-screen video playback. See HD, hear HD and feel HD — Enjoy the beautiful graphics now with the card!

Enjoy Copy Protected Movies
The card is HDCP complaint, enabling users to play copy-protected content, such as commercial DVD movies.

Enjoy True to Life Graphics
ULTRA HD videos have resolution four times that of current HD videos, meaning images too clear that may deceive your eyes! With the card, you are set for getting the movie theater experience to your home. You may be able to watch a video shooting the Eiffel tower and zoom it in to see your friend’s face clearly from the top! Get your eyes impressed and enjoy mind-blowing graphics with extreme clarity, depth and texture!

See More, Win More!
The card is capable to turn your computer into a super gaming machine. Enjoy the latest 3D games with stunning graphics and effects that your enemies cannot match! Get an immersive experience with AMD Eyefinity!

Expand your game across up to 3 displays while your opponents have one monitor. Along with all-new support for stereo 3D, universal bezel compensation and brand new display configurations, take the unfair advantage over your opponent and win more with the surround sight

View More, Work Better
Having one dedicated screen just for twitter or Facebook and a second for outlook is not a dream anymore. The card features a DisplayPort for enhanced workspace flexibility. You can easily connect to the 27” Apple LED Cinema Displays with the DisplayPort. The dual-link DVI port allows you connect to a 30” DVI display up to 2560×1600. Resolution can even reach 4096×2160 with HDMI® , good for TV up to 80″!

Hear Better in Video Conference
Most GPUs today support only one audio stream at a time. The card, however, has Discrete Digital Multi-Point Audio that can simultaneously output multiple, independent audio streams. Audio seamlessly follows the video, providing affordable multi-display, multi-audio conferencing for consumers!

The card is an ideal solution for all those who rely on having several applications visible simultaneously for extra productivity. Multi-tasking just got a lot simpler! Make your computer a multi-display workstation!

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What’s in the box

• HIS Graphics Card
• DVI-D to HDMI Dongle
• Radiator Mounting Screw Kit
• Install CD with Multilingual User Guide
• Quick Installation Guide
• HIS Power Up Label

Model Name	HIS R9 295X2 Liquid Cooler 8GB GDDR5 PCI-E DLDVI-D/4xMini DP
Chipset	AMD Radeon R9 290X
Memory Size	8192 MB
Memory Type	GDDR5
Core Clock	Up to 1018 MHz
Memory Clock	5 Gbps
Memory Interface	2x 512 bit
Power Supply Requirement	Two 8-pin PCIe® power connectors capable of supplying 28A of dedicated current per connector.
Max. Resolution (per Display)	DisplayPort 1.2 — 4096×2160 HDMI — 4096×2160 Dual-link DVI with HDCP — 2560×1600
Interface	PCI Express 3.0 x16
Outputs	DLDVI-D + 4xMini DP

System Requirements

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• System power supply with two 8-pin PCIe® power connectors capable of supplying 28A of dedicated current per connector.
• AMD does not recommend the use of power adapters or dongles.
• Visit www.amd.com/r9 for a list of compatible power supplies. 
• System case with good airflow and a suitable mounting location for the 120mm x 120mm fan and radiator. 
• Minimum 8GB of system memory
• 16GB (or more) of system memory recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, and a display
• DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
• A display with digital input (HDMI, DisplayPort or DVI) is required
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
• Supported operating systems include Windows 8, Windows 8. 1, Windows 7 and Linux
• 64-bit operating system highly recommended

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Radeon R9 295X2 [in 2 benchmarks]

Radeon R9 295X2

• PCIe 3.0 x16 interface
• Core frequency 0
• Video memory size 8192 MB
• Memory type GDDR5
• Memory frequency 1250
• Maximum resolution

Description

AMD Starts Radeon R9 Sales295X2 on April 29, 2014 for a suggested price of $1,499. This is a desktop video card based on the GCN 2.0 architecture and 28 nm manufacturing process, primarily aimed at gamers. It has 8 GB of GDDR5 memory at 1.25 GHz, and coupled with a 512-bit interface, this creates a bandwidth of 640 Gb / s.

In terms of compatibility, this is a dual-slot PCIe 3.0 x16 card. The length of the reference version is 307 mm. The connection requires two 8-pin additional power cables, and the power consumption is 500 watts.

It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of

21.90%

from the leader, which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.

GeForce RTX
4090

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General information

Information about the type (desktop or laptop) and architecture of the Radeon R9 295X2, as well as when sales started and cost at the time. Value for money

To obtain an index, we compare the characteristics of video cards and their cost, taking into account the cost of other cards.

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Features

Radeon R9 295X2’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly talk about Radeon R9 performance0040 of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI (Mobile))

9005 of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) Textory speed

179. 2

054 Floating point performance 2x 5.733 gflops of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Compatibility and dimensions

Information on Radeon R9 295X2 compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply).

RAM

Parameters of the memory installed on Radeon R9 295X2 — type, size, bus, frequency and bandwidth. For video cards built into the processor that do not have their own memory, a shared part of the RAM is used.

Technologies

Technology and APIs supported by Radeon R9 295X2 are listed here. You will need this information if your graphics card is required to support specific technologies.

Benchmark tests

These are the results of Radeon R9 295X2 rendering performance tests in non-gaming benchmarks. The overall score is set from 0 to 100, where 100 corresponds to the fastest video card at the moment.

Overall benchmark performance

This is our overall performance rating. We regularly improve our algorithms, but if you find any inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in the comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

R9 295X2
21.90

• Passmark
• 3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Passmark

This is a very common benchmark included in the Passmark PerformanceTest package. He gives the card a thorough evaluation, running four separate tests for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11, and 12 (the latter being done at 4K resolution whenever possible), and a few more tests using DirectCompute.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

R9 295X2
8637

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests showing a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature that appears to be made of lava. Using a resolution of 1920×1080, Fire Strike demonstrates fairly realistic graphics and is quite demanding on hardware.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

R9 295X2
21197

Mining hashrates

Radeon R9 295X2 performance in cryptocurrency mining. Usually the result is measured in mhash / s — the number of millions of solutions generated by the video card in one second.

Is Radeon R9 good?295X2 for gaming?

FPS in popular games on Radeon R9 295X2, as well as compliance with system requirements. Remember that the official requirements of the developers do not always match the data of real tests.

Relative capacity

Radeon R9 295X2 overall performance compared to its closest competitors in desktop graphics cards.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
102.51

AMD Radeon RX 5500
101.78

AMD Radeon RX 480
100. 68

AMD Radeon R9 295X2
100

AMD Radeon R9 Nano
98.22

AMD Hawaii
95.94

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
94.79

Competitor from NVIDIA

The closest competitor of Radeon R9 295X2 from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB, which is 3% faster on average and higher by 6 positions in our rating.

GeForce GTX
1060 5GB

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Here are some of NVIDIA’s closest competitors to the Radeon R9 295X2:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN BLACK
104.66

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z
104.16

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB
102.51

AMD Radeon R9 295X2
100

NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
94. 79

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
92.92

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
90.73

Other video cards

Here we recommend a few video cards that are more or less similar in performance to the reviewed one.

GeForce GTX
TITAN Z

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GeForce GTX
TITAN BLACK

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Radeon R9
390

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GeForce GTX
TITAN

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Radeon R9
290

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GeForce GTX
780

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Recommended Processors

According to our statistics, these processors are most commonly used with the Radeon R9 295X2.

Core i7
4790K

5.5%

Core i5
4690K

5.5%

FX
8350

3.6%

FX
6300

3.6%

Ryzen 5
1500X

3.6%

Ryzen 5
5500U

3.6%

Ryzen Threadripper
3990X

3.6%

FX
8320

3.6%

Pentium Dual
Core E2220

1.8%

Core i5
4460

1. 8%

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specs and benchmarks in 10 games and 2 benchmarks

AMD started selling the Radeon R9 295X2 on April 29, 2014 for a suggested retail price of $499. This is a desktop video card based on the GCN 2.0 architecture with a 28 nm process technology. It has 4 GB of GDDR5 memory with a frequency of 1250 MHz, a 512-bit bus, which provides a bandwidth of 5 Gb / s.

Card occupies 2 slots, connected via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. The reference version is 307mm long, 114mm wide and 42mm high. The card requires three 8-pin auxiliary power cables, the declared maximum power consumption is 500 watts.

Specifications

GPU

GPU option

Vesuvius XT (215-0852022)

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Manufacturer

TSMC

Process

28 nm

Number of transistors

6200 million

Crystal area

438 mm²

Graphic card

Release date

April 29, 2014

Generation

Volcanic Islands (R9 200)

Predecessor

Sea Islands

Descendant

Pirate Islands

Price at the start of sales

$499

Market price

$ 1499

Data bus interface

PCIe 3. 0 x16

Frequencies

GPU Clock

1018 MHz

Memory frequency

1250 MHz

Memory

Memory capacity

4 GB

Memory type

GDDR5

Memory bus

512 bit

Memory speed

5 Gb/s

Memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

Render configuration

Shader units

2816

Compute modules

44

Texture blocks

176

Raster blocks

64

L1 cache

16 KB

L2 cache

1024 KB

Rated output

Pixel fill rate

65. 15 GP/s

Texture Fill Rate

179.2 GT/s

Performance FP32

5.733 Tflops

Performance FP64

716.7 GFlops

Graphics capabilities

DirectX

12 (12_0)

OpenGL

4.6

OpenCL

2

Vulcan

1.2

Shader model

6.3

Video card design

Occupied slots

2

Length

307 mm

Width

114 mm

Height

42 mm

Heat Sink Requirements

500 W

Recommended PSU power

900 W

Outlets

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort

Power supply

3x 8-pin

Board number

C673-A7

Maximum temperature

73 °C

Maximum noise

50 dB

FPS in games

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

(2020)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.

Valorant

(2020)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.

Death Stranding

(2020)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.

Cyberpunk 2077

(2020)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.

Apex Legends

(2019)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile.

Metro Exodus

(2019)

Better than AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Mobile.

Red Dead Redemption 2

(2019)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti.

Grand Theft Auto V

(2015)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Mobile, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

(2012)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER.

League of Legends

(2019)

Better than NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER.

Benchmark tests

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics: 21197 Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI, but worse than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile.

Passmark: 8280 Better than NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile, but worse than AMD Radeon R9 Nano.

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