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AMD R9 290 – GTX 780 Level Performance at $450 (279,66 GBP)

mrozik

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Seeming as the 290x seems to float from below the gtx 780 upto the titan i rather doubt the 290 would be anywhere close at that price point.
 
mrozik said:
http://www.hardware-360.com/amd-r9-290-gtx-780-level-performance-at-450/





Is this possible? 450$ so around £300-£350 really interested to see this OC vs the Classified 780

Looking into 450$ as of today it would be "279,66 GBP" so around £300 pretty good for the price!

What do you guys think?
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I think £280+VAT would be around £340 upward...

You know how it is in UK...the best case scenerio is we might get it US dollar converting to pound plus VAT, but it is usually higher than that (unless AMD themselves order for the launch price for the cards to be lowered).
 
Im going to call £329 at launch to put it about £100 cheaper than the x version then dropping to £299 after a month or 2 so it falls into the old slot the 7970 used to originally occupy
 
Looking good but ideally the non ref versions need to come in under £350 as the 780 is a nice deal at its current price with free games. Don't really fancy a hot and noisy ref 290 so that needs to come in at around £300 but I'm expecting £350, this might put people off and push them to paying that little extra for a 780.
 
A straight conversion plus VAT gets £336 so with the rip off tax it will be between £350-£400.

If you say the 290x is roughly £450 then if you apply the same ratio of USD prices to that it means the 290 will be £368 which sounds about right.
 
£370ish is surely too close to 780 territory though? I want to go Red for my next card, but if the 290 is going to follow in its big brothers footsteps then paying an extra 30 quid or so to get a 780 is a bit of a no brainer.

Ideally I'd like to see around £320 for ref cards. That way there is a £50-60 window for dedicated coolers with the cards that are thrashed to within an inch of their silicon, coming in close, but still under the 780 and it still gives room for any potential reduction to the 290X.
 
I've heard that the release has been postponed to November 5th, because AMD will be modifying the BIOS to cope with higher clock speeds to counter and exceed the GTX 780 !
 
Nadleeh said:
I've heard that the release has been postponed to November 5th, because AMD will be modifying the BIOS to cope with higher clock speeds to counter and exceed the GTX 780 !
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Rubbish. It is way too late to be doing that now. I wouldn't be surprised if the 290's were already with the majority of the vendors. Also, think about that comment a bit, how long has the 780 been out now, and then think why would they need to counter something they have known about for a long time. It may be postponed (I have no idea if it is), but not for the reason you mentioned.
 
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Nadleeh said:
I've heard that the release has been postponed to November 5th, because AMD will be modifying the BIOS to cope with higher clock speeds to counter and exceed the GTX 780 !
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AMD won't be able to do anything more about the spec/speed, as stocks are already sitting at the vendors' warehouse waiting to be launched. OcUK for example already got their hands on the 290s when they launched the 290x.

The only thing they can do now is adjust the pricing...or quickly come up with new Never Settle bundle that are triple AAA value like Nvidia is offering at the moment.
 
Scougar said:
Rubbish. It is way too late to be doing that now. I wouldn't be surprised if the 290's were already with the majority of the vendors. Also, think about that comment a bit, how long has the 780 been out now, and then think why would they need to counter something they have known about for a long time. It may be postponed (I have no idea if it is), but not for the reason you mentioned.
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I don't think it's true, but the reason does actually make sense because although the 780 has been out a long time it's only just had a major price slash, it's quite plausible that AMD were shooting for a specific price point to out of box performance ratio and the 780 dropping by over £100 has thrown a wrench in the works.
 
AMD Radeon R9 290 pushed back by a week

http://videocardz.com/47439/amd-radeon-r9-290-pushed-back-week

The reason for that is supposedly a new, better driver which will increase R9 290 performance significantly (probably increasing power consumption at the same time).

NVIDIA’s offensive with the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, and now with GTX 780 GHz Edition is nothing that AMD expected. The funny thing is that they still deny it, they even say that they knew about new NVIDIA cards for a long time. Turns out they weren’t prepared for any move from NVIDIA, and now reviewers will have to retest their 290s, only because AMD changed something in the driver.

3DCenter also reports that NVIDIA is still thinking about the new TITAN, only this would be with fully GK110 enabled. The original TITAN will soon be replaced with GeForce GTX 780 Ti, at lower price, meaning there’s absolutely no reason to keep the current pricing for TITAN.

AMD Radeon R9 290 will be released on November 7th.

Upcoming graphics cards launches:

AMD Radeon R9 290 — November 5th
Hawaii PRO with 2560 Stream Processors and 4GB memory.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti — November 7th
A faster TITAN with (supposedly) 2688 CUDA cores.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti — mid-November
GK106 with 960 CUDAs
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Ultra– December
I won’t believe it until I see it
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COMMENT, GIBBO? :(

They contradict themselves by saying the 7th on one line and then the 5th the next. Please let this just be rumour... I'VE WAITED SO LONG! :mad:
 
Nadleeh said:
I've heard that the release has been postponed to November 5th, because AMD will be modifying the BIOS to cope with higher clock speeds to counter and exceed the GTX 780 !
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