Sapphire 290x with 8 GB of memory?

Hardware GPU
1

Is it true that they have a Sapphire 290 X with 8 GB of RAM?

2

Yes, according to several articles. Although, such a huge amount of VRAM is largely useless.

3

Yes and last I checked the exclusive was given to Overclockers.co.uk Might have been lifted by now but here it is. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-353-SP

4

It would be pretty awesome for crossfire and running games higher then native res

5

no way. would be great for multiple 4k displays.

6

Largely useless, few people are stupid enough to do that and on top of that: who's to say the rest of the card is even good enough to keep up with the huge amount of VRAM without proper benchmarks? 

7

here are 4k benchmarks. it would be a possible conjecture to say higher vram capacity could improve preformance, esp in games with high rez textures.

http://www.tweaktown.com/tweakipedia/32/sapphire-radeon-r9-290x-tri-x-benchmarked-at-4k/index.html

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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-353-SP

599.99 pounds  = 1004.74 US Dollar

9

I say this is an awesome card. First, 8 GB of video RAM how can you not like that. Furthermore, I think we need to ask Logan to get his hands on this card. Last, he needs to test this card to see if it holds up to PC games.