Best GPU of 2013 - PCPerspective

[Terminal_Boy]

How many people actually got their hands on a non-ref 290 in 2013?

Apart from those who fitted aftermarket coolers like I did.

 

[pgi947]

Id have went with the 690, been out for nearly 2 years come may 2014 and is still going strong. Faster than a titan and faster than a 780.

690 was released in 2012

780 pricing is maybe £20 or so too steep but, its only £20...besides, 780's with aftermarket coolers have been sub £360 a number of times.

I paid a ball hair under a grand for a pair of 780's and a pair of blocks for them, cards are stock 5% faster then a titan and very happy with what I've gotten for my money

 

[Marine-RX179]

780 pricing is maybe £20 or so too steep but, its only £20...besides, 780's with aftermarket coolers have been sub £360 a number of times.

Up to until the release of the 290x, the GTX780s were still priced at around £520+ on average, with sometimes at £480 when deals popped up.

There should be an award for:

"290/290x - "Bringing high-end graphic card prices back down to sane levels"

Regardless of people gone Red or Green, I doubt anyone would disagree with it's a good thing that AMD brought out some competitions (well, may be except for people concern about the drop in value of their cards).

 

[slick rick]

No love for the 7990?

 

[Besty]

No love for the 7990?

Broken on launch, by the time it was fixed the damage was already done.

Classic AMD

 

[Gregster]

Up to until the release of the 290x, the GTX780s were still priced at around £520+ on average, with sometimes at £480 when deals popped up.

There should be an award for:

"290/290x - "Bringing high-end graphic card prices back down to sane levels"

Regardless of people gone Red or Green, I doubt anyone would disagree with it's a good thing that AMD brought out some competitions (well, may be except for people concern about the drop in value of their cards).

I agree with that. nVidia had the very expensive Titan, which made the 780 look incredible value at ~£500 (good marketing?) and AMD had nothing out competing and at the launch of the GTX 780, no mention of AMD having a launch of new top end gear in 2013 and rebrands being the order of the day. I doubt nVidia would have dropped pricing of the 780 either if the 290/X hadn't been released, pretty much in the same way that AMD kept pricing high with the 7970 till the 680 was launched. When you have had a product out for a while, it allows you to charge a premium for people like me with no patience.

Never forget that faceless corporations want our money and both are guilty of over charging at one time or another. If we choose to be over charged, then we only have ourselves to moan at and nobody else. Nobody forces us to buy top end and mid range can be quite capable for the most part.

 

[PhysicsMan94]

I can agree with their decisions, especially regarding the 780 - I love mine, it's powerful, reliable, fairly quiet and doesn't get too hot. It's such a good card that I'm going to get another one to last me through until the 900 series or even to Volta.

 

[arc@css]

Sensible decision imo.

 

[Stanners]

I agree with that. nVidia had the very expensive Titan, which made the 780 look incredible value at ~£500 (good marketing?) and AMD had nothing out competing and at the launch of the GTX 780, no mention of AMD having a launch of new top end gear in 2013 and rebrands being the order of the day. I doubt nVidia would have dropped pricing of the 780 either if the 290/X hadn't been released, pretty much in the same way that AMD kept pricing high with the 7970 till the 680 was launched. When you have had a product out for a while, it allows you to charge a premium for people like me with no patience.

Never forget that faceless corporations want our money and both are guilty of over charging at one time or another. If we choose to be over charged, then we only have ourselves to moan at and nobody else. Nobody forces us to buy top end and mid range can be quite capable for the most part.

Stop talking sense

 

[Gregster]

Stop talking sense

I need to get back into bed and climb out the other side

brb

nVidia rule... NVIDIA FTW!!!

There, that's better

 

[233]

I would have picked the 7970, the Titan was a wonderful piece of kit missing a killer application. The 7970 was what? £250? Could the difference be told between it and a standard 780 in game? I bought mine in Jan 2012 and it was only truly outclassed when the 780ti came along. I am happy to pay the entry cost on a the top end custom 780ti, it think it is worth the money.

A heavily clocked 7970 still holds its own for a rock bottom price.

Like I say, Titan was well ahead of its time it's just a shame the gaming industry went through a bare patch in 2013 in terms of heavyweight 3d games. It wasn't even a great bencher card, £800 and you still needed to run void your warranty to use it correctly.

have to say I have a lot of love for the 7970 as being card of the year for 2013.

got mine for sub £200 pulls 1200+ clocks and over 1700 on the mem.(bios modded Asus CUII TOP)

bargain of the year

 

[pgi947]

I agree with that. nVidia had the very expensive Titan, which made the 780 look incredible value at ~£500 (good marketing?) and AMD had nothing out competing and at the launch of the GTX 780, no mention of AMD having a launch of new top end gear in 2013 and rebrands being the order of the day. I doubt nVidia would have dropped pricing of the 780 either if the 290/X hadn't been released, pretty much in the same way that AMD kept pricing high with the 7970 till the 680 was launched. When you have had a product out for a while, it allows you to charge a premium for people like me with no patience.

Never forget that faceless corporations want our money and both are guilty of over charging at one time or another. If we choose to be over charged, then we only have ourselves to moan at and nobody else. Nobody forces us to buy top end and mid range can be quite capable for the most part.

Also have to remember with no competition they can name their price, on both titan and 780 launches their nearest competition from amd was the 7970, while the 780ti launch had the 290x so was priced accordingly.

Absolutely any buisness will charge more for something if the competition is either non existent or inferior. We do it in a daily basis, far superior to our competition, charge the client twice as much

 

[andybird123]

Also have to remember with no competition they can name their price, on both titan and 780 launches their nearest competition from amd was the 7970, while the 780ti launch had the 290x so was priced accordingly.

Absolutely any buisness will charge more for something if the competition is either non existent or inferior. We do it in a daily basis, far superior to our competition, charge the client twice as much

I couldn't get away with double, but 10-20% more expensive as the competition and still win more business than I had people to deal with was always nice

 

[Boomstick777]

Totally agree with 780 getting this, once that price came down, it's a whole lot of performance for the money. The build quality of the ref 780 is a big step above competition as well.

 

[andybird123]

have to say I have a lot of love for the 7970 as being card of the year for 2013.

got mine for sub £200 pulls 1200+ clocks and over 1700 on the mem.(bios modded Asus CUII TOP)

bargain of the year

if you timed it right and got it as it was going EOL then sure, though these types of awards tend to take in to account the pricing over the lifetime, not just when retailers were dumping dead stock

 

[PhysicsMan94]

have to say I have a lot of love for the 7970 as being card of the year for 2013.

got mine for sub £200 pulls 1200+ clocks and over 1700 on the mem.(bios modded Asus CUII TOP)

bargain of the year

But the 7970 wasn't released in 2013, so it's not really suitable for the "Best GPU of 2013" category.

 

[pgi947]

I couldn't get away with double, but 10-20% more expensive as the competition and still win more business than I had people to deal with was always nice

The twice price stuff is usually exclusive technologies, competition use older more inefficient stuff, so the old time = money thing gos down well with clients despite extra initial costs

Whats better is when the competition want something exclusive to us, we then hire it to them at ~5x our usual charge

Though we both know this forums feelings on locking exclusive technologies

 

[Boomstick777]

Up to until the release of the 290x, the GTX780s were still priced at around £520+ on average, with sometimes at £480 when deals popped up.

There should be an award for:

"290/290x - "Bringing high-end graphic card prices back down to sane levels"

+1

Lol, this is very true.

 

[Gregster]

if you timed it right and got it as it was going EOL then sure, though these types of awards tend to take in to account the pricing over the lifetime, not just when retailers were dumping dead stock

Very true. Both the 680 and 7970 were very good buys at EOL stock.

 

[humbug]

I don't see the point in being so exited about these things, reviewers do this every month or whatever with AMD and Nvidia seemingly constantly trading the win.

I understand it makes some brand owners owners feel good about themselves and whatever camp they aligned themselves with.

Other than that its doesn't have any real merit.