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The r9 295X2 is the best card on the market?

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Nope, it's no where near, takes way too much power. I think the Dual Fury Card will be the best card on the market if they take control of the power these cards use.

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It's dual GPU you can't really compare, cross fire isn't great, frame times are still an issue AFAIK, the power consumption is ridiculous too. 

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is it?

Well, it's 2 290x, so yes it should perform better than the titan X. But AMD's driver team is incompetent.

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Not entirely, you deal with CrossFire compatibility issues and higher power consumption (the same can be told of a dual-GPU NVIDIA setup.) In terms of raw performance, sure if you're talking compute but definitely not for framerates all of the time. But you're better off getting a GTX 980 Ti or even just an R9 Fury. Much less power, no dealing with an AIO and no specific power requirements (the R9 295x2 overdraws past specification on the 8-pin (150W) connectors. Newer PSUs tend to be okay with this but older ones and ones with thinner gauge wires tend to have issues resulting in unstable power delivery and even melting cables in extreme cases.)

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One is a single card and one is two.

It is dependent on driver support and game support. Also that uses soo much power.

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It always annoys me when red team people use dual card AMD benchmarks against single GPU Nvidia cards to try and make a point. 

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it would be a good card if drivers where better. However Id rather just buy two 780tis. much better then the r9 295x2 in my opinion 

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It's dual GPU you can't really compare, cross fire isn't great, frame times are still an issue AFAIK, the power consumption is ridiculous too. 

but they are same price on amazon

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Not entirely, you deal with CrossFire compatibility issues and higher power consumption (the same can be told of a dual-GPU NVIDIA setup.) In terms of raw performance, sure if you're talking compute but definitely not for framerates all of the time. But you're better off getting a GTX 980 Ti or even just an R9 Fury. Much less power, no dealing with an AIO and no specific power requirements (the R9 295x2 overdraws past specification on the 8-pin (150W) connectors. Newer PSUs tend to be okay with this but older ones and ones with thinner gauge wires tend to have issues resulting in unstable power delivery and even melting cables in extreme cases.)

but like 2 titan x is better

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but like 2 titan x is better

Obviously, but it's also $1350 more expensive.

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but they are same price on amazon

Same price doesn't mean same performance. There are other factors, one will be better in different scenarios than the other.

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Nope, it's no where near, takes way too much power. I think the Dual Fury Card will be the best card on the market if they take control of the power these cards use.

 

You mean the GTX 990Ti?

Open your eyes and break your chains. Console peasantry is just a state of mind.

 

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It does get its benefit in a few games in 4K, too bad it's a very dangerous card and it's dual GPU

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but they are same price on amazon

You're also dealing with a special case here since performance scaling with CrossFire and SLI isn't always linear or stable.

 

just watercool it

And spend more money on a card that I wouldn't personally pour so much money into in the first place. Hell, you can get two R9 390s for around the same price and you're getting 2x the usable VRAM.

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just watercool it

but it will still output the same amount of heat into your room.

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just watercool it

Doesn't change it from being a space heater. No matter what you use to cool it, the heat still has to go somewhere.

 

Also it's already liquid cooled out of the box.

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Doesn't change it from being a space heater. No matter what you use to cool it, the heat still has to go somewhere.

 

Also it's already liquid cooled out of the box.

well u can use it to cook ramen its an extra feature

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