Rumor: AMD Announces Radeon R9 295X X2 on April 8

According to a Scandinavian tech site, AMD will announce the Radeon R 295 X2 on April 8. It would be a video card with two Hawaii Pro GPUs for a total of 5120 stream processors. AMD recently gave hints about the card’s arrival. Nvidia would still come with a GTX 790.

The rumor comes from Nordic Hardware, which in the past has demonstrated good resources at tech companies. According to the site, it is a card with two full Hawaii XT GPUs, which means that there are twice 2560 stream processors. The core clock of the video chips would run at 1GHz, just like the Hawaii XT of the Radeon R9 290X. AMD would have opted for a high-end cooling system with liquid cooling, similar to the Ares II: a dual-Gpu card from Asus.

The announcement was supposed to take place on April 8, but actual availability would follow a week later. AMD has hinted to various sites in recent weeks that a new Radeon with two GPUs is on the way. That release would then come less than a year after the release of the HD 7990.

Videocardz manages to add to the news that Nvidia would wait for AMD to put its cards on the table with the release of its GeForce GTX 790. The GTX 790 would also be a dual-Gpu card. On Tuesday Nvidia already introduced a video card with two video chips, but the Titan Z is not aimed at the consumer market with a price of $ 3000.