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AMD begins slashing the prices of its Radeon R9 290, R9 290X GPUs

Tonester0011 said:
Ever heard of a multi quote Shank's?
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Yeah I always forget about it though lol

layte said:
Yea, that's not full support though. It's DX12 support much like Nvidia Fermi and Keplar support it.
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AMD says themself Full support on GCN GPUS

AMD revealed that it will support DirectX® 12 on all AMD Radeon™ GPUs that feature the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-demonstrates-2014mar20.aspx

Unlike yourself I have proof to back up my cards will fully support DX12 :D :p
 
shankly1985 said:
And you have proof to back that up?
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For example.
DirectX 12

Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 12 API has been designed to have CPU efficiency significantly greater than earlier DirectX versions. The DX12 release of DirectX will introduce a number of new features for graphics rendering. Microsoft has disclosed some of these features, at GDC and during NVIDIA’s Editor’s conference. Conservative Raster, discussed earlier in the GI section of this paper, is one such DX graphics feature. Another is Raster Ordered Views (ROVs,) which gives developers control over the ordering pixel shader operations. GM2xx supports both Conservative Raster and ROVs. The new graphics features included in DX12 will be accessible from either DX11 or DX12 so developers will be free to use the new features with either the DX11 or DX12 APIs.
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I'm pretty sure that apart from Maxwell only Intel currently has something similar to ROV.
 
Ouch AMD slashed 285, 280X, 290, 290X prices and 295X2 already too, they will lose revenues for the next 5 months. I don't know exactly how many cards AMD shipped each week so let say 20,000 cards a week worldwide, AMD would lose upto $1.6M a week or upto $320M in 5 months until R380/R380X and R390/R390X launch in Feb/March 2015.

Next week or 2 weeks will be very hard time for AMD to sell 290s for $299 when Gigabyte and MSI will launch cheaper non OC versions of G1 Gaming and Gaming Edition very close to $299 that would also OC easy to 1.5GHz too if people who bought it are lucky. :) GTX 960 will launch sometime in October probably for $229 that would possible OC to 1.5GHz easy that would surpass 290 performance.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Desperate times call for desperate measures, they must be making pennies on their cards compared to nvidia.
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Depends how many you sell during it's product lifecycle-this includes how many you sold during it's highest pricepoint***cough***-MINING.;)

Upon talking with one retailer, we heard them say that this is the best month they have ever had for GPU sales and it is only the 9th of December.
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We also spoke with a European retailer that stated that they had sold over 1,000 high-end AMD GPUs over the course of last week (starting with Cyber Monday) and that 65% of those sales were multi-GPU sales. They said that they suspect most of those sales were for LiteCoin.

As a result, this retailer and many retailers will likely be sold out of AMD high-end GPUs for the time coming and if you want one and see it is in stock, buy it. Because there is a strong likelihood that you won’t see very many cards coming in stock until late December or early January.
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http://www.brightsideofnews.com/201...ies-are-causing-shortages-of-amd-radeon-gpus/
 
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layte said:
Even if that happens to be the case, what we do know is that the comparably priced Maxwell has much better feature level support than the 290.
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LOL, LOL

We dont even know, all I can say is AMD saying Full support. The fully feature spec sheet for AMD isn't even out so how can you post anything about the 290?

old gamer said:
but by the time dx12 is here and gets implemented into games wont we all be on newer graphics gards again
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Depends, if its a jump like me coming from 7950 to 290 then yes. if its a jump from say 780 to 980 then no
 
shankly1985 said:
LOL, LOL

We dont even know, all I can say is AMD saying Full support. The fully feature spec sheet for AMD isn't even out so how can you post anything about the 290?

Depends, if its a jump like me coming from 7950 to 290 then yes. if its a jump from say 780 to 980 then no
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Because it doesn't support the particular feature I posted information about when you grabbed the wrong end of the stick and ran with it.

We all know that GCN as well as Fermi and Keplar support DX12. What we also know is that new hardware is required to fully support some of the new feature DX12 brings to the table.

Do you not think AMD would have been shouting from the rooftops if GCN supported these new features that Maxwell brings, surely it would have been a majour PR coup for them to tell everyone they already had this functionality, while Nvidia had to roll new silicon.
 
One of the problems with price drops is it messes up the guys who want to upgrade. Those who paid full price for a 290/290X at launch will be taking a big hit now if they change their cards out.
 
layte said:
It's not full feature support though. Yes it's DX12, but not full functionality.
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full support would mean full featured dx12,

so if amd is saying their cards can fully support dx12 then they will, there's no proof to say it's a cut down dx12.

amd wouldn't say Full DirectX 12 compatibility promised. if it wasn't able to use the full features
 
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