AMD's Not-So-Subtle Hint at a Dual-Hawaii Graphics Card
It is not a new rumor that AMD is working on a graphics card, possibly codenamed "Vesuvius." It is expected to feature two of AMD's Hawaii GPUs and might also be known as a Radeon R9 290X-X2, or such. The official naming hasn't been confirmed anywhere yet. Now, AMD has pulled off a rather interesting stunt, in which it not-so-subtly hints at a dual-GPU graphics card. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which that will be.
Our own Chris Angelini received an envelope the image below. The envelope was stamped 'Top Secret', and inside:
A brilliant move from AMD, assuming it was the sender, of course. Given that the origin of the package was Toronto-based, that's quite likely, though nowhere did it clearly state that it was from AMD. Or maybe Chris just has a creepy secret admirer.
If you can at least match green team with your Crossfire/dual graphic support across wide range of games in timely fashion, and smooth frame rates, then people will rave about it and buy more of your stuff and save yourself, otherwise save your marketing gimick.