AMD Radeon R9 295X2 Review

Written by Matthew Lambert

April 8, 2014 | 12:58

Tags: #dual-gpu #dual-gpu-graphics-card #fastest-graphics-card #hawaii #liquid-cooling #r9-295x2 #radeon #radeon-r9

Companies: #amd #asetek

BioShock Infinite

Publisher: 2K

From our Bioshock Infinite review :

"Your character Booker’s trip to Columbia is in the interest of retrieving a girl, Elizabeth, from captivity. It’s imperative that you find her so that you can clear a pile of debts, but it’s increasingly clear as your time in columbia continues that this isn’t a simple hero's tale. Elizabeth has the power to control “tears in reality" that are popping up all over the city."

"It’s an adult, thoughtful and compelling work that shames many (if not most) other attempts in the medium. Bioshock Infinite is an incredibly good video game. It might be one of the best.

We use the handy in-built benchmarking tool to run a timedemo from two sections near the start of the game. However, we've found the game-generated results to be unreliable, so use FRAPS to record the frame rate over a 40 second sequence of gameplay during the second test. The results taken are an average of three repeated tests.

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BioShock Infinite

1,920 x 1,080, Ultra Detail with DOF

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 260X 2GB
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BioShock Infinite

2,560 x 1,440, Ultra Detail with DOF

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R7 260X 2GB
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BioShock Infinite

5,760 x 1,080, Ultra Detail with DOF

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
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BioShock Infinite

3,840 x 2,160, Ultra Detail with DOF, 0x AA

  • AMD Radeon R9 295X2 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan Black 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 3GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 3GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB
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Posted by SchizoFrog - Tue Apr 08 2014 12:07

Personally I prefer the ASUS approach to hybrid cooling with their ROG Poseidon range. This system looks tacky and more like a botch job to me rather than a professional design.

Considering the dual GPU nature I am surprised that no SLi or XFire set-ups were compared.

Posted by Dogbert666 - Tue Apr 08 2014 12:11

SchizoFrog
Personally I prefer the ASUS approach to hybrid cooling with their ROG Poseidon range. This system looks tacky and more like a botch job to me rather than a professional design.

Considering the dual GPU nature I am surprised that no SLi or XFire set-ups were compared.
We would have had we had two samples of anything on hand. Sadly it was too short notice to get anything else in, hopefully we'll be able to for when Titan Z comes in.

Posted by Harlequin - Tue Apr 08 2014 12:15

Woot for AMD math

1 x 8pin power is 150w

so 2 is 300w and

the slot for 75 w = 375.

wonder where the extra 125w is coming from ;)

Posted by Dogbert666 - Tue Apr 08 2014 12:18

Harlequin
Woot for AMD math

1 x 8pin power is 150w

so 2 is 300w and

the slot for 75 w = 375.

wonder where the extra 125w is coming from ;)
This card needs a lot more current per connector, so that's where :p
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