Testseek.co.uk have collected 141 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 8GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 86%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon R9 295 X2 8GB GDDR5 PCIe.
April 2014
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The editors liked
Obscenely fast
Very smooth performance
Perfect candidate for 4K gaming
Runs relatively cool and reasonably quiet
More than two R9 290Xs
Incredible cooling performance
Better value than GTX Titan Z
Offers a huge amount of performance – 4K 60Hz ready
Convenient all in one CrossFireX solution
Represents a huge improvement over past AMD Dual GPU solutions
Fastest graphics card that money can buy
Looks set to be at least half the price of the Titan Z from Nvidia
Ultra HD 4K leader
We love the flight case
No maintenance watercooling system
The editors didn't like
May require a new PSU
Price
But that is the nature of the beast
Coil whine
High power consumption
Power delivery outside ATX spec
A risky game to play – lowers efficiency and strains PSUs
Loud fans even though temperatures are low
Eye-wateringly expensive
Needs some fine tuning
Can get quite loud under load when the water heats up
Smallish cooling system has to work hard
240mm radiator and dual fans would have performed better
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Boy oh boy oh boy. What a ride this card has been. AMD really went through a lot of effort to bring this unique card to market, being their first dual GPU solution that is not cut down in some way. Here the two R9 290x cores have full Stream Processors,...
Now let's do some math. First of all, the new AMD Radeon R9 295X2 has twice more GPUs than the Radeon R9 290X and clocks them at a 1.8% higher frequency. Second, the marketing department may claim the new card has twice the graphics memory, but that's not...
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Published: 2014-05-23, Author: Joel , review by: pcmag.com
Incredible cooler keeps GPU temps low. Great 4K performance.
Expensive. Requires beefy Power Supply Unit (PSU) capable of providing 500 watts of power
The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 is an incredible high-end, multi-core GPU that will really come into its own when 4K gaming becomes more commonplace....
If you want the absolute best gameplay experience at huge resolutions, AMD has the GPUs that you need, and two Radeon R9 295X2 cards will cost you $3,000. Value of halo products is almost always totally subjective, so we will leave that call up to you.The...
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Published: 2014-04-29, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
We already discussed some of the power concerns on the first page and our need to hook up an auxiliary PSU to our primary 1200 watt unit to keep things running nice and stable. So how did it really look from total, at the wall, power draw?Yikes! At 1,261...
Published: 2014-04-21, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
At no point in time have we ever seen good scaling from four GPUs, and we've never suggested that an enthusiast would be wise slinging a quartet of graphics cards together from any vendor, including Nvidia. With that said, we had a good experience with ...
Published: 2014-04-11, Author: Ryan , review by: anandtech.com
Bringing this review to a close, when I first heard that AMD was going to build a full performance dual Hawaii GPU solution, I was admittedly unsure about what to expect. The power requirements for a dual Hawaii card would pose an interesting set of chall...
The Radeon R9 295X2 is a $1,500 card. There's no getting around that. In fact, it makes a lot of sense if you think about it. The R9 290X should sell for around $550, even though there's still a fair amount of gouging as a result of last year's cryptocurr...
There are a couple of things I don't like about the Radeon R9 295X2 that mainly focus on the power requirements. Forcing users, even those willing to shell out $1500 for a graphics card, to understand power supply rails and combined amperage on power draw...
