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AMD Launches World’s Fastest Graphics Card

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—AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card, engi­nee­red for ulti­ma­te speed and per­for­mance, enables 4K gam­ing at max set­tings for extre­me PC gam­ing —

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — April 8, 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today laun­ched the world’s fas­test and most powerful gra­phics card[i], AMD Rade­on™ R9 295X2, desi­gned for ultra-enthu­si­asts at the apex of PC gam­ing. Joi­ning two AMD Rade­on™ R9 Series GPUs in one card design, AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 man­hand­les today’s and tomorrow’s games in maxi­mum set­tings at 4K reso­lu­ti­on[ii].

“AMD is thril­led to launch the AMD Rade­on™ R9 295X2 gra­phics card, built on the same award-win­ning Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re that powers the gam­ing indus­try,” said Matt Skyn­ner, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Gra­phics Busi­ness Unit, AMD. “This record-shat­te­ring dual-GPU card will enable indus­try-lea­ding audio and visual­ly stun­ning 4K gam­ing, pro­ving once again that Rade­on™ is gaming.”

Heral­ding an indus­try first, the AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card comes equip­ped with an advan­ced clo­sed-loop, pre-assem­bled and main­ten­an­ce-free liquid coo­ling sys­tem. Deve­lo­ped joint­ly with Ase­tek, a lea­ding pro­vi­der and desi­gner of PC liquid coo­ling solu­ti­ons, users can expect cool tem­pe­ra­tures, quiet ope­ra­ti­on and con­sis­tent per­for­mance from the AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card right out of the box.

“Ase­tek is proud to col­la­bo­ra­te with AMD to pro­vi­de an out­stan­ding coo­ling solu­ti­on for a tru­ly cut­ting-edge and ground­brea­king gra­phics card,” said And­re Erik­sen, CEO and foun­der, Ase­tek. “With our cus­tom fit­ted liquid coo­ling tech­no­lo­gy, the AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card deli­vers quiet powerful performance.”

Thanks to its Gra­phics Core Next (GCN) archi­tec­tu­re, the AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card offers the ulti­ma­te oppor­tu­ni­ty to expe­ri­ence high-per­for­mance gam­ing with Man­t­le[iii]. With Man­t­le, gamers have access to the world’s only curr­ent­ly available and pro­ven low-over­head API.

A new level of audio immersi­on is made pos­si­ble by AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy[iv], which brings sur­round sound to any ste­reo head­set. With a dedi­ca­ted audio pro­ces­sor on the GPUs, the AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card deli­vers a richer and deep­ly immersi­ve sound­scape for an unpar­al­le­led PC gam­ing experience.

Along with sound, the AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card sets the bar for visu­al expe­ri­en­ces on cur­rent and upco­ming PC titles, effort­less­ly hand­ling high-reso­lu­ti­on, mul­ti-moni­tor con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons with AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy[v].

The AMD Rade­on R9 295X2 gra­phics card will be available later this month at a start­ing pri­ce of $1499 USD and €1099 (exclu­ding VAT)[vi].

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About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.

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AMD, the AMD Arrow logo and Rade­on are trade­marks of Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for infor­ma­tio­nal pur­po­ses only and may be trade­marks of their respec­ti­ve owners.

[i] In a 3DMark Fire Strike bench­mark test in 1080p, the AMD Rade­on™ R9 295X2 out­per­forms the Titan Black, Nvidia’s hig­hest per­forming gra­phics card as of March 12, 2014, by a score of 15,862 to 9,878 in the Per­for­mance pre­set, and 8,764 to 4,725 using the Extre­me pre­set. Test sys­tem: Intel i7 4960X CPU, 16GB memo­ry, Nvi­dia dri­ver 334.89, AMD Cata­lyst dri­ver 14.10 and Win­dows 8.1. GRDT-36

[ii]Requi­res 4K dis­play and con­tent.  Sup­port­ed reso­lu­ti­on varies by GPU model and board design; con­firm spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons with manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purchase.

[iii] Appli­ca­ti­on sup­port for Man­t­le is required.

[iv] AMD TrueAu­dio tech­no­lo­gy is offe­red on sel­ect AMD Rade­on™ R9 and R7 200 Series GPUs and is desi­gned to impro­ve acou­stic rea­lism.  Requi­res an enab­led game or appli­ca­ti­on.  Not all audio equip­ment sup­ports all audio effects; addi­tio­nal audio equip­ment may be requi­red for some audio effects. Not all pro­ducts fea­ture all technologies—check with your com­po­nent or sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer for spe­ci­fic capabilities.

[v] AMD Eye­fi­ni­ty tech­no­lo­gy sup­ports mul­ti­ple moni­tors on an enab­led gra­phics card. Sup­port­ed dis­play quan­ti­ty, type and reso­lu­ti­on vary by model and board design; con­firm spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons with manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purcha­se. To enable more than two dis­plays, or mul­ti­ple dis­plays from a sin­gle out­put, addi­tio­nal hard­ware such as DisplayPort™-ready moni­tors or Dis­play­Po­rt 1.2 MST-enab­led hubs may be requi­red.  A maxi­mum of two acti­ve adap­ters is recom­men­ded for con­su­mer sys­tems. See www.amd.com/eyefinityfaq for full details.

[vi] SEP as of April 2014.