AMD's Not-So-Subtle Hint at a Dual-Hawaii Graphics Card

By Niels Broekhuijsen
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This is a bit of a dead giveaway...

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.

Niels Broekhuijsen
Niels Broekhuijsen

Niels Broekhuijsen is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He reviews cases, water cooling and pc builds.

24 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Lutfij
    I'd stick a fork in the secret admirer :)Back on topic, I wonder of the x2's prices will skyrocket once they are found to be THE best thing to own for virtual currency mining...? Makes you wonder huh?
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  • brandonjclark
    No doubt. AMD has forsaken its PC gamer base. Why not sell a "mining" line of products?
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  • eklipz330
    prices are trickling back down, so we can all breathe a little
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  • winningsince1337
    Sweet! Can't wait to get my new $1000 stove/space heater combo. It's an added bonus that it can render graphics too...
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  • sancco
    I like how they're gonna call it "Vesuvius". Name would be very fitting I imagine, as this thing will be blazingly hot.
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  • meluvcookies
    I'd settle for any of AMD's cards to actually be selling at their MSRP. I really wanted to buy a 270x. This post just makes me think: how about Nvidia giving us a dual 750ti with a 256-bit bus? Oh lawdy, that would be fun and efficient.
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  • brisa117
    Clever marketing. Ryan Shrout from Pcper got one of these too.
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  • jasonelmore
    This post just makes me think: how about Nvidia giving us a dual 750ti with a 256-bit bus? Oh lawdy, that would be fun and efficient.
    if it had a 256 bit bus it would use over double the power
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  • tului
    Unfortunately prices will be driven through the roof by morons who got to the bitcoin mining party late and still want to make money. One thing I've wondered is does the increased cost get passed to AMD or is it all just retailers gouging and pocketing it all themselves?
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  • TriBeard
    Unfortunately prices will be driven through the roof by morons who got to the bitcoin mining party late and still want to make money. One thing I've wondered is does the increased cost get passed to AMD or is it all just retailers gouging and pocketing it all themselves?
    It's all on the retailer's end. AMD, and even XFX, Saphire, etc don't really get any extra off of it. Newegg and the like are just having a field day, though as stated, prices are starting to come back down.
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