Tag Archives: Sapphire R9 290X VaporX OC 8GB

On Thursday many partners of Advanced Micro Devices rolled out their graphics cards based on the Radeon R9 290X graphics processors with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. Unfortunately, at present such graphics adapters are significantly more expensive than regular R9 290X models with 4GB of memory, which greatly lowers their value …

Advanced Micro Devices plans to re-launch AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics cards with 8GB of memory. Earlier this year such graphics boards were available exclusively from Sapphire Technologies, but for the holiday season AMD intends to allow three partners to offer R9 290X graphics boards with 8GB of GDDR5 on-board. …

If you have been following our news feed over the last couple of months, you will have already seen the information we shared on the Sapphire R9 290X VaporX OC in a whopping 8GB configuration. We have been receiving a lot of emails asking when Sapphire were due to release …