More Radeon R9 290X cards with 8GB RAM in november

Boomstick777 · 29 Oct 2014 at 13:03

According to SweClockers AMD is planning to launch more Radeon R9 290X graphics cards with 8GB GDDR5 memory on board in November.

Radeon R9 290X with 8GB will be exclusive to three partners: PowerColor, Sapphire and Club3D. Sapphire is the only manufacturer with two Radeon R9 290X 8GB cards already released. While you can still easily find Vapor-X, the R9 290X Toxic was limited only to handful of units, so technically your choice is restricted to one model only.

http://videocardz.com/53908/more-radeon-r9-290x-cards-with-8gb-ram-in-november

Kelt · 29 Oct 2014 at 13:06

Good news, the sooner 8Gb becomes the norm the better.

Loxa · 29 Oct 2014 at 13:19

There playing it smart, its a cheap way to compete with the 970/980 until there ready for there new GPUs in 2015.

Uncle Petey · 29 Oct 2014 at 13:21

Wonder if Kaap'll swap his out for these? Doubt it, but it would be interesting.

Asa · 29 Oct 2014 at 13:30

Will pick one up if it also adds HDMI 2.0 (or displayport 1.3).

If you crossfire an 8gb 290x with a 4gb 290 are you completely wasting the additional memory?

Gregster · 29 Oct 2014 at 13:35

Asa said:
Will pick one up if it also adds HDMI 2.0 (or displayport 1.3).

If you crossfire an 8gb 290x with a 4gb 290 are you completely wasting the additional memory?

Yep, the card will use the lowest cards amount, so 4GB.

Razor Time · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:15

Loxa said:
There playing it smart, its a cheap way to compete with the 970/980 until there ready for there new GPUs in 2015.

^^^ This

Uncle Petey · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:18

At 4k with multiple cards and AA, yeah.

PS

They're, their, there.

/Gentle Spoffle mode

Dempsey22 · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:25

I know Matt is getting 4 of these anyway!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** £359.99
Total : £369.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

Orangey · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:26

Uncle Petey said:
At 4k with multiple cards and AA, yeah.

That's called an aspirational product stack.

LtMatt · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:26

Dempsey22 said:
I know Matt is getting 4 of these anyway!

YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290X 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** £359.99
Total : £369.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

That he is. Got to maintain my position at the top of all the 4K gaming benchmark threads here at OcuK somehow. :cool:

Dempsey22 · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:27

AMDMatt said:
That he is. Got to maintain my position at the top of all the 4K gaming benchmark threads here at OcuK somehow.

If you want to loan me your current cards Ill join you in second on those benchmarks

LtMatt · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:28

Dempsey22 said:
If you want to loan me your current cards Ill join you in second on those benchmarks

I expect I'll be putting them up for sale soon in the MM in preparation.

Yaayuh! · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:29

Uncle Petey said:
Wonder if Kaap'll swap his out for these? Doubt it, but it would be interesting.

Doubt it. He's waiting for nVidia's next Titan-like offering for T-Rex.

Dempsey22 · 29 Oct 2014 at 14:30

AMDMatt said:
I expect I'll be putting them up for sale soon in the MM in preparation.

Just need to make 776 more posts before then

Gregster · 29 Oct 2014 at 15:02

Selling outside the MM isn't allowed Matt and you know this.

GoogalyMoogaly · 29 Oct 2014 at 18:30

I'm very tempted by some of those 8GB reference 290Xs, but it does irk me a bit that I'm paying £120 for 4GB VRAM considering OcUK do a reference Powercolor 290X for £240.

Gibbo · 29 Oct 2014 at 18:31

Yeah we added Powercolor PCS+ to the webshop yesterday, go check it out.

Wizzfizz · 29 Oct 2014 at 18:33

Matt is trouble once again lol

Wizzfizz · 29 Oct 2014 at 18:34

Gibbo said:
Yeah we added Powercolor PCS+ to the webshop yesterday, go check it out.

These seem to be cracking cards and have glue applied to the coils! Something all other manufactures should do, instead of skimping and maximizing their profits