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AMD Radeon R9 295X2 to Get Promotional Price, Open to All

ubersonic said:
I could be off here, but when you guys had the HD7990 for £499 that was a good deal (also what should have been a launch price but NVM) and they would probably still sell at that today, however when you had them for £380 that was a really good deal, but considering they would have sold at £499 anyway I have trouble believeing yourselves or AMD decided to sell the cards at a loss just for the fun of it? So the HD7990 was still making some profit at £380, a lot more at £499, and a LOT more when it was price matching the GTX690.

Or am I looking at that wrong? (I am not saying you guys are trying to hose consumers or anything, you guys are always amazing on prices, but I fully believe GPU manufacturers are profiteering at quite a level)
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The GPU manufacturers have to profiteer, they are a business trying to make a profit.

Intel got it right, sell $1000 CPU's that cost you less than $10 to make, perfect business sense because it means they can put billions into research and development.

AMD have a much harder time, they are only just turning a profit after years of losses, so I really hope for them they can improve their profits whilst still giving consumers great value for performance which they currently beat NVIDIA at. If they sell everything at bottom price then AMD would soon no longer be with us and nobody would want that!

So if AMD is making 50% margin on everything they sell to board partners then good on them, I doubt they are but we need these companies making profits overall and not losses otherwise in the long term things become far worse.
 
Aye, most shops and even manufacturers are primarily concerned with manufacturing costs as R&D in many areas are relatively tiny ... not so much in this sector! So where profitability lies for a single item is a much more blurred line - you don't have to 'repay' R&D at a fixed rate, so later in a products life it may be worth selling at much lower than would have been economical for the whole of it's life, so long as it's still eating a little into the R&D debt. (Not just the R&D costs for that line too, gotta cover all the ones that don't make it to market unfortunately!)
Also, generally yields improve as time goes by, decreasing costs marginally. The R&D costs are the much bigger factor though I'd imagine.
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

It is showing out of stock because we started booking in stock, but with nearly 80 pre-sold, it won't show in stock until we have booked in over 80 units, give the warehouse guys and website a few minutes to update. :)

Seriously AMD showing no signs of repeating the price - DO NOT MISS OUT!
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SO are you selling more than 100pc now at £699?

*wait i just reread your post.. Im blind
 
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well I couldn't resist it any longer, "Sold to the man at he back"

Seriously though 10/10 on service, I ordered (finally cracked) the card at 17:09 and it was dispatched 30mins later! Your warehouse boys are worth their weight in gold for that.

Ruddy good show!
 
Ploppy2k3 said:
well I couldn't resist it any longer, "Sold to the man at he back"

Seriously though 10/10 on service, I ordered (finally cracked) the card at 17:09 and it was dispatched 30mins later! Your warehouse boys are worth their weight in gold for that.

Ruddy good show!
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Ha, I order mine just before 18:00 tonight. And believe me 4 days I was thinking about it.

So decided to make the move, cancelled the Acer 4K monitor. I will buy a freesync 4K when they come out.
 
i've thought about 4k over and over but the current generation of 4k stuff is just either too expensive or just crud.

I will wait another 6-12 months before i consider 4k seriously.
 
I need Displayport to HDMI to passthrough the HDMI/Trueaudio as well, so DVI to HDMI is no good.

I've bought a Mini Displayport to HDMI 1.4b adapter, that should let me watch 3D Blu-rays still.

Someone seriously needs to make a Displayport to HDMI 2.0 adapter though so people can use 4k TV's @ 60hz.
 
Wouldn't have minded one purely for acoustics, but wallet says no. :(

Also Matt how did you become a vendor rep. :confused:
 
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