AMD Vesuvio can be two Hawaii XT on the same circuit board

At the end of October, the Radeon R9 290X was released, which together with the scaled-down cousin Radeon R9 290 contains the new graphics processor Hawaii. However, it was not long before Nvidia regained the performance throne with the Geforce GTX 780 Ti. Now it looks like AMD is aiming for revenge.

According to Chinese VR-Zone, the Volcanic Islands family will be expanded with another graphics card, but not just any model. Under the thematic code name Vesuvio is hidden a power pack with two Hawaii XT. It suggests a total of 5,632 stream processors, two 512-bit memory buses and 8 GB of GDDR5 memory.

However, the new graphics card is said to take a while longer and will probably not appear before the turn of the year. It is also not clear what the Vesuvio will be named, although the Radeon R9 290X X2 is close at hand.