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People keep bringing up the NVidia 8800 saying how much it was rebranded, please remember that a die shrunk card is not a rebrand. I rebrand is where you use the exact same chip.
...mentioned this up a few times when the subject of the 8800 re-brands has come up, the review sites at the time considered shrinking the die and changing the name to be re-branding the card, as did/do most people.
Yeah but it's cool when Nvidia do it, re-branding is fine yo. Apparently the semantics over the naming is making people lose their minds. It's just to complicated for some people.
Fury X (Flagship)
Fury Pro (Second card down)
390X (Mid - High end)
Posting that above to help people, as a lot here seem to be worried about that people buying a $389 / £250 card from best buy or PC world accidentally thinking it's the AMD: 980 Ti / Titan X equivalent.
Pretty much, even worse if they completely remove all stock of the 290X. Nvidia would become the "budget" option so to speak.But the 390X is going to be £350+. It's not going to be "mid-high end" priced. It's going to be high-end priced.
The Fury/X is going to be lolTitan pricing.
Lisa Su says AMD is not going to be a budget brand. So she took their budget cards, re-badged and slapped a premium price on them
Re-brands are horrid but we accept them, sometimes. Re-branding a 290X to a 390X and actually making it more expensive? Bye, AMD, nice knowing you (although you've been **** for a while now!).
Lets rebrand everything, all the time. Everywhere.
It certainly wouldn't be cool if Nvidia did what AMD has. Which they haven't with 28nm.
But who on earth can be happy having a series of rebrands, which itself consisted of rebrands?
What? Nvidia have re-branded and put a card to the mid - high tier before. Just like AMD is doing. Is the naming confusing you?
I wander if people would be so accepting of a GTX 970 type situation had AMD done that.. I think probably... No no they wouldn't.
AMD take their previous flagship 290X 4GB. Double the VRAM as standard and drop the card down to mid - high end in their next stack. They introduce the worlds first HBM card as a flagship and decide to launch it at the first ever PC event at E3 which they have co organised. Yeah how shockingly awful of them..
Just terrible..
AMD take their previous flagship 290X 4GB. Double the VRAM as standard and drop the card down to mid - high end in their next stack. They introduce the worlds first HBM card as a flagship and decide to launch it at the first ever PC event at E3 which they have co organised. Yeah how shockingly awful of them..
Just terrible..
But the 390X is going to be £350+. It's not going to be "mid-high end" priced. It's going to be high-end priced.
The Fury/X is going to be lolTitan pricing.
Lisa Su says AMD is not going to be a budget brand. So she took their budget cards, re-badged and slapped a premium price on them
Re-brands are horrid but we accept them, sometimes. Re-branding a 290X to a 390X and actually making it more expensive? Bye, AMD, nice knowing you (although you've been **** for a while now!).
They haven't dropped it down a tier, price wise. They've made a new tier above it. That's why the 390/X moniker makes sense, because they will price it like (or worse than) a 290/X.
The Fury is going to be hellish expensive. Certainly much more than the 290/X on release.
They haven't dropped it down a tier, price wise. They've made a new tier above it. That's why the 390/X moniker makes sense, because they will price it like (or worse than) a 290/X.
The Fury is going to be hellish expensive. Certainly much more than the 290/X on release.
You know all the launch prices before they have launched. That's cool.
Just to put it out there, the current 'rumours' are $389 Dollars is £250 Pounds. You're expecting a £100 price hike at launch. Well I mean that could happen, but that's not AMD's fault.
Firstly, 389$ is at least £311. Basic rule of thumb, multiply by 0.8.
Second, Best Buy are selling for 450$. That's £360.
Then add on UK price gouging in the initial few weeks/months of release.
These are 390X price, not the Fury.