Testseek.com 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
High frame rates
All the way up to 4K resolution
CrossFire delivers quad-GPU potential
Liquid cooling
Fastest consumer graphics card we've tested to date
Half the expected price of Nvidia's 2014 dual-GPU Titan Z card
Reasonably quiet
Considering performance
Incredible cooler keeps GPU temps low. Great 4K performance.
Uber Powerful
High Performance
Relatively Quiet Under Load
All Metal Construction
CrossFire on a Card
Excellent scaling and performance at Eyefinity and 4K
Low temperatures thanks to watercooling
Dual-slot cooler
CrossFire scaling works in almost all games
Dual BIOS
Backplate included
Nice packaging
Comes in a suitcase
Great for 4K UHD graphics and high frame rates
Excellent cooling system
Very efficient design for minimized noise and heat
Exquisite performance at Full HD & 4K at lower detail
Easy installation
The R9 295X2 is today's fastest graphics card with doubledigit gains on the HD 7990
GTX 690 and even a pair of GTX 780s in SLI.
The editors didn't like
Requires a very large power supply
Very expensive
External radiator required for cooling
May mandate a new power supply
Frame stuttering noticeable in at least one benchmark test
Expensive. Requires beefy Power Supply Unit (PSU) capable of providing 500 watts of power
Relatively Quiet
But Not Silent By Any Means
Pricey
Not Available Yet
High price
Noisy in idle
Could be quieter under load
Very high power consumption
Coil noise
Needs driver support for proper CrossFire scaling
High VRM temperatures
Watercooling radiator takes up extra space
No fan control
Still a noisy 4K GPU in comparison to Nvidia's line
Runs a little hot considering its cooling system
Expensive relative to performance
It's also among the priciest with an MSRP of $1
500
Though we can see its bundled liquid cooler being attractive to plenty of enthusiasts.
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...
The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 is a video card that many thought might not be possible. When the AMD Radeon R9 290X was released it was discovered how inadequate the air cooling was on the video card. It wasn't until add-in-board partner custom video card with c...
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Published: 2014-04-08, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
Let's sum up our performance results—and factor in price—using our world-famous scatter plots. These overall performance results are a geometric mean of the outcomes on the preceding pages. We left Thief out of the first couple of plots since we tested i...
Final Thoughts ]I have to admit when news first broke of AMD’s upcoming dual-GPU Radeon based on a pair of ‘Hawaii XT’ GPUs I poked fun at it. The main concern I had was that the Radeon R9 290X has a TDP rating of almost 300 watts and this single GPU...
The AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB raises the bar when it comes to what one can expect from a single dual-slot graphics card. AMD has managed to create a dual-GPU behemoth that has become the fastest graphics card in the world. If you want to go fast and have th...
As one of the most vocal critics of AMD's past board designs, I'm satisfied with the choices it made in enabling two Hawaii GPUs on one graphics card. Radeon HD 6990, Radeon HD 7970, Radeon HD 7990, Radeon R9 290—all of those products were remarkable in...
Published: 2014-04-08, Author: Joel , review by: extremetech.com
The R9 295X2 isn’t just fast. For $1500, “fast” is mandatory. AMD’s engineers have slapped two of its highest-end GPUs on the same board while holding GPU temperatures below 70C. The dual-GPU card is far, far less annoying under load than a single R9 29...
