PowerColor's Air-Cooled R9 295X2 Revealed

[N.Broekhuijsen]

It looks like PowerColor is building an air-cooled R9 295X2 graphics card.

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[surda]

this card gonna be sooo hot that you wont even need a heater in your house

 

[shogunofharlom]

Some junky may try to steal your card just for the aluminum on it alone. Hide your kids, Hide your wife.

 

[patrick47018]

Some junky may try to steal your card just for the aluminum on it alone. Hide your kids, Hide your wife.

http://youtu.be/EzNhaLUT520?t=1m

 

[helper800]

Looks like this card will probably be cheaper than the current one, so you could buy it and put a custom water block on it and might break even with the price of the AMD one.

 

[ingtar33]

so... power color made a r9-295x2 which will temp throttle? Shouldn't that be the headline? and 4x8pin connectors? Ambitious on the overclocks they'll get with that air cooling system aren't they?

 

[catswold]

this card gonna be sooo hot that you wont even need a heater in your house

The total amount of heat added to your household will be the same whether the dual Hawaii cards are liquid cooled or air cooled.

I will wait and see before I condemn this beast. It may be that a triple slot air cooler will be sufficient . . . not likely seeming, but possible.

 

[Amdlova]

this card will fit on bitfenix prodigy ?

 

[jasonelmore]

LMAO, 4X 8 Pin Power Connectors. This really shows how AMD is trying to brute force its way over Nvidia. Using double the Power and producing double the heat, "but hey, we made a fast gpu" good job amd

 

[Amdlova]

LMAO, 4X 8 Pin Power Connectors. This really shows how AMD is trying to brute force its way over Nvidia. Using double the Power and producing double the heat, "but hey, we made a fast gpu" good job amd

i think you dind't see the point. you never will touch de 4x8 pin power on air or water but with some nitrogen hellium or other type will hit hard and this card will be the fastest single pcb on earth...

 

[shogunofharlom]

It's the gpu BATMAN uses.

 

[redgarl]

this card gonna be sooo hot that you wont even need a heater in your house

It's great in Winter >

 

[redgarl]

so... power color made a r9-295x2 which will temp throttle? Shouldn't that be the headline? and 4x8pin connectors? Ambitious on the overclocks they'll get with that air cooling system aren't they?

That heatsink is 3 layer thick. I would give it a chance first.

 

[cst1992]

I don't think any aircooled system is capable of handling 600W of power(considering they're gearing up for 675).
Also, they could've done with 3 8 pin connectors for 525W of power consumption.

 

[rohitbaran]

That's one beefy looking card.

 

[ingtar33]

LMAO, 4X 8 Pin Power Connectors. This really shows how AMD is trying to brute force its way over Nvidia. Using double the Power and producing double the heat, "but hey, we made a fast gpu" good job amd

this has nothing to do with AMD... this is a non-reference version of that GPU, this is Power Color's baby. This is no different then the "kingpin" edition of the 780ti... that's not nvidia's doing, thats an EVGA non-reference version of the 780ti.

 

[Blazer1985]

Better bolt your pc to the floor, this card looks like a (badass) quadcopter!

 

[Shrikant Venkatesh]

Is it just me or are the fan blades on that thing shaped weirdly??? like it is supposed to be pulling air, not pushing?!

 

[helper800]

LMAO, 4X 8 Pin Power Connectors. This really shows how AMD is trying to brute force its way over Nvidia. Using double the Power and producing double the heat, "but hey, we made a fast gpu" good job amd

Nvidia's GK110 die size is a little bit more than 28% larger than AMD's Hawaii XT yet Nvidia comes away with only 5-10% more performance in most games. For reference the die sizes are as follows in mm^2: GK110 561, Hawaii XT 438. More like Nvidia brute forcing its way onto AMD if you aks me...

 

[catswold]

LMAO, 4X 8 Pin Power Connectors. This really shows how AMD is trying to brute force its way over Nvidia. Using double the Power and producing double the heat, "but hey, we made a fast gpu" good job amd

Nvidia's GK110 die size is a little bit more than 28% larger than AMD's Hawaii XT yet Nvidia comes away with only 5-10% more performance in most games. For reference the die sizes are as follows in mm^2: GK110 561, Hawaii XT 438. More like Nvidia brute forcing its way onto AMD if you aks me...

Except that the NVidia solutions run at lower power and cooler than AMD. Thus if one were to pick one design that is being "brute forced," it would be the one that is having to work harder to achieve equal performance.

 

[outlw6669]

Is it just me or are the fan blades on that thing shaped weirdly??? like it is supposed to be pulling air, not pushing?!

No, it is not just you.
I was thinking the exact same thing after seeing the photos.

This definitely looks like a beastly cooler.
With the R9 295X2's 75°C ceiling, I doubt it will be a quiet card; but that cooler looks like it can keep temps in check at least.

Nothing I will ever be able to afford, but I am still interested in seeing benchmarks for it!

 

[helper800]

LMAO, 4X 8 Pin Power Connectors. This really shows how AMD is trying to brute force its way over Nvidia. Using double the Power and producing double the heat, "but hey, we made a fast gpu" good job amd

Nvidia's GK110 die size is a little bit more than 28% larger than AMD's Hawaii XT yet Nvidia comes away with only 5-10% more performance in most games. For reference the die sizes are as follows in mm^2: GK110 561, Hawaii XT 438. More like Nvidia brute forcing its way onto AMD if you aks me...

Except that the NVidia solutions run at lower power and cooler than AMD. Thus if one were to pick one design that is being "brute forced," it would be the one that is having to work harder to achieve equal performance.

I don't understand what you are trying to say. Everything you said in your first statement is a direct outcome of having a larger die size. Nvidia's die size has a less performance for the space ratio. What i was trying to say was if AMD made their GPUs the same size as Nvidia's then they would dominate performance wise. Although not trying to start a flame war, i'm just stating facts. Nvidia's GPUs are 28% larger but do not yield 28% more performance (most cases only 5-10%).

 

[catswold]

LMAO, 4X 8 Pin Power Connectors. This really shows how AMD is trying to brute force its way over Nvidia. Using double the Power and producing double the heat, "but hey, we made a fast gpu" good job amd

Nvidia's GK110 die size is a little bit more than 28% larger than AMD's Hawaii XT yet Nvidia comes away with only 5-10% more performance in most games. For reference the die sizes are as follows in mm^2: GK110 561, Hawaii XT 438. More like Nvidia brute forcing its way onto AMD if you aks me...

Except that the NVidia solutions run at lower power and cooler than AMD. Thus if one were to pick one design that is being "brute forced," it would be the one that is having to work harder to achieve equal performance.

I don't understand what you are trying to say. Everything you said in your first statement is a direct outcome of having a larger die size. Nvidia's die size has a less performance for the space ratio. What i was trying to say was if AMD made their GPUs the same size as Nvidia's then they would dominate performance wise. Although not trying to start a flame war, i'm just stating facts. Nvidia's GPUs are 28% larger but do not yield 28% more performance (most cases only 5-10%).

To get the same performance from an AMD chip, it has to be pushed harder. It has to work harder--consume more energy and produce more heat for a given level of performance.

Size only relates to the efficiency of the processor's architecture, not how hard it has to work to do the job.

 

[BasedCereal]

Four eight pin connectors? WHAT?

 

[Brunostako]

I'm pretty sure that with 4 x 8-pin connectors you no longer require at least 28 Amps on each of them like in the reference model. Also, if they're targeting OCers they are gonna need that power capacity and those fans do look different, i bet they use more power and deliver more airflow than normal or common fans.