Report: Sapphire Building 8GB Radeon R9 290X 'Toxic' Card
It looks like Sapphire is working on a 'Toxic' R9 290X graphics card with double the GDDR5 memory.
A report from KitGuru tells us that Sapphire is building a new and improved R9 290X graphics card – one with a rather impressive spec sheet. The card will be known as the R9 290X Toxic Edition.
The card seems to be based off of the original Tri-X R9 290X graphics card, though they do carry a number of differences.
The biggest difference between this card and other R9 290X cards in general is the 8 GB of graphics memory, rather than the reference 4 GB solutions.
So far, there has been no information on what the card's clock speeds would be, but given that this is a 'Toxic' branded product, it's safe to assume that the factory overclock will be at least respectable, if not better.
Of course, there is also no word yet on pricing or availability. That said, it will be a limited edition card, meaning that prices are likely to be a little higher than usual.
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Niels Broekhuijsen is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He reviews cases, water cooling and pc builds.
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knowom 8GB of memory is a just absurd. Perhaps for some kind of CAD rendering work you "might" and that's a pretty big "might" I should add be able to make use of it though that's probably even a stretch.I wish GPU memory could be put to good use as a fast storage ramdisk subsystem for a PC at least outside of Linux because I don't see any reason why it couldn't outside of the lack of software developed for that purpose.Reply -
alchemy69 It's all about bragging rights. Little rich kids playing WoW @ 1080P "I need this card because I'm a hardcore gamer and I can pwn you newbs with only 4GB...and Twilight Sparkle IS awesome."Reply -
heero yuy as whassname jgriff said this card is going to be good for gaming at HEUG resolutions and so while most people will not need that much ram people with lots of screens or screens with stupid resolutions will need that much ramReply