The wait it finally over and AMD has now officially announced and launched its newest dual-GPU flagship graphics card, the Radeon R9 295X2. Based on two 28nm Hawaii XT GPUs which is the same one found behind the R9 290X graphics card, the new Radeon R9 295X2 is a proper performance beast. In order to keep the GPUs well cooled, AMD has teamed up with Asetek for the all new Project Hydra hybrid liquid+air cooler and according to reviews posted around the net, they definitely did a great job, both performance- and cooler-wise.

The card is definitely not aimed at those looking to game on sub-UHD/4K resolutions, with the exception of 5760x1080 Eyefinity multi-display configurations. After all new Radeon R9 295X2 features two fully-enabled 28nm Hawaii XT GCN2 GPUs, so it is overkill for 1440p or 1600p. Each of the GPU packs 2816 Stream Processors, 176 TMUs and 64 ROPs and each is connected to a 4GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with a 512-bit memory interface. The GPUs are interconnected via PLX PEX8747 PCI-Express gen 3.0 x48 bridge chip and each of the GPUs has its own 5+1-phase VRM design which draws power from the two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors. The new R9 259X2 features single DVI and four mini DisplayPort outputs, which makes it highly suitable for multi-display systems.