PowerColor Radeon R9 295X2 Devil 13

[Dicehunter]

Powercolor are releasing their infamous devil card in the form of the 295x2 which needs 4 x 8 pin connectors ?!?!?

This is going to be one hell of a power hungry card.

Is this the first ever card to require four 8pin power connectors? The amount of power that can be delivered through them is absolutely insane. Of course this will affect two things, the overclocking capabilities and … your wallet, when it comes to paying for the power.
PowerColor’s R9 295X2 is triple-slot design, but it also has a backplate, so it’s even thicker. There are three fans, each of the same diameter (100mm?).
Radeon R9 295X2 Devil13 features two Hawaii XT GPUs with a total of 5760 Stream Processors. Each GPU has it’s own 4GB GDDR5 memory and 512-bit interface. At this point we have no information about the clock speeds, but I would be surprised if this card is not factory-overclocked.
Whether you like it or not, you are probably looking at the fastest graphics card on the planet.

^^^^^^4 x 8 pin connectors^^^^^^
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Source - http://videocardz.com/50434/powercolor-radeon-r9-295x2-devil13-requires-four-8pin-power-connectors

 

[Feronix]

Interesting fans. As if they are designed to pull air away from the heatsink rather than traditional fans that push it through?

 

[Dicehunter]

Interesting fans. As if they are designed to pull air away from the heatsink rather than traditional fans that push it through?

Will be interesting to see what temps this can get

 

[barnsley]

WAT.
Holy crap, surely going from water back to air is a bit counter productive?

 

[RickPlaysWarr]

Will be interesting to see what temps this can get

Also, how loud and how much damage is done to my wallet. I am wondering why 2 extra 8 pin power connectors over the reference build.

--Rick--

 

[barnsley]

Also, how loud and how much damage is done to my wallet. I am wondering why 2 extra 8 pin power connectors over the reference build.

--Rick--

2x8 isn't enough power for OCing the card.

 

[RickPlaysWarr]

2x8 isn't enough power for OCing the card.

I just don't see how you could Serious OC that heat monster without a full cover water block. So to me you buy a card with add on super air cooler to rip it off?

I know this won't happen, however I wish there was a 295x2 with water block factory installed instead of the AIO or air cooler.

 

[Whiskers]

That backplate though... :drool: even if the branding is the wrong way around

 

[Cru]

inb4 100 degrees

 

[WYP]

I like these "we built it becouse we can" cards as much as the next man, but I must say this card is ugly.

I hope the cooler is capable, moving from a water cooler to this makes me very skeptical as to whether it will keep any reasonable temps under load.

 

[Wraith]

That thing is going to scream! Those are dual turbulence fans, lots of air but damn are they going to be noisy.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Well i wouldn't mind the power draw.. solar power FTW

But seriously this thing needs a waterblock and tbh i think a waterblock would be limiting the card due to trying to conduct enough of the heat to transfer to the coolant and the rads trying to get rid of all the heat( gonna say a 360 for this card minimum for low enough fan speeds).

 

[Kaapstad]

Well i wouldn't mind the power draw.. solar power FTW

But seriously this thing needs a waterblock and tbh i think a waterblock would be limiting the card due to trying to conduct enough of the heat to transfer to the coolant and the rads trying to get rid of all the heat( gonna say a 360 for this card minimum for low enough fan speeds).

Watercooling Hawaii chips is quite easy, my setup has been measured pulling nearly 1800 watts and it is no problem conducting the heat out of the system even on a single loop. The highest any of my cards get on a warm day is 45c.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Watercooling Hawaii chips is quite easy, my setup has been measured pulling nearly 1800 watts and it is no problem conducting the heat out of the system even on a single loop. The highest any of my cards get on a warm day is 45c.

well its also one block for 2 chips is what my point was.. I would assume the block would have a harder time conducting all that heat when overlocking with 4x8pin connectors running through it.. thats 600 watts alone. It might actually be easier than it sounds but i wouldn't know because i haven't tried it

 

[Kaapstad]

well its also one block for 2 chips is what my point was.. I would assume the block would have a harder time conducting all that heat when overlocking with 4x8pin connectors running through it.. thats 600 watts alone. It might actually be easier than it sounds but i wouldn't know because i haven't tried it

It should be fine conducting the heat, on my setup the water goes straight from my 4930k to the cards without anything in between. The important bit is to make sure there is plenty of rad space.

 

[SieB]

4x 8pins isn't as bad as it seems, the max TDP of a Hawaii is ~300W without overvolting. A single 290X has 2x8pin so 4x8pin isn't out of the ordinary, it just means each core has full amount of power available to it.
Also, the cards only pull what they need to pull, having 4x 8pin wont automatically make it use more power, it just means there is more power available if needed.

As for cooling, I'm not to sure but that is one hefty heatsink with three pretty big fans on it. I wouldn't of thought PowerColor would bother making a beast of a card if it couldn't perform. Only time will tell though, i'll be looking forward to seeing how it does anyway.

 

[Damo666]

I'm going to wait for Toms review lol

 

[iiBetrayforAR]

Thats a lot of cabling...

 

[Wraith]

Thats a lot of cabling...

Not really, it only needs 3x 8 pin connectors to run normally unless you want to pin it to the wall and fondle its meaty bits then go for gold with 1 extra 8 pin to clock the growlers off it.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Not really, it only needs 3x 8 pin connectors to run normally unless you want to pin it to the wall and fondle its meaty bits then go for gold with 1 extra 8 pin to clock the growlers off it.

sometimes when people say lol they arent actually. i proper outloud laughed at that. well done sir