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I have official 3xx EU prices. These are in HUF with the hungarian 27%. VAT

Model FOB guidance USD Official SEP USA (USD) EURO Hungary HUF Hungary (27% VAT included)
R9 390X 8GB HUF 149,276.00 ~ 320£ with 20%VAT
R9 390 8GB HUF 115,930.00
R9 380 2GB HUF 69,496.00
R7 370 2GB HUF 52,979.00
R7 360 2GB HUF 38,332.00

1£=433HUF

I thought Hungary adopted EUR :D
 
I must have misread it, look at this http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-FURY-X-vs-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-Z .This is saying it will be better than the Titan Z ???

gpuboss is garbage so ignore it - the fact it thinks being a dual GPU is an advantage tells you enough!

So £345, then you'll need to add UK tax?

No, that was £345 while including a higher rate of tax than we pay, £325 + delivery at our rate of tax.

Post us some benchmarks then as you must have used or be using the card to be able to say this.

Haha yeah :) lots of people assuming it'll be awesome (or assuming it'll be a flop) - without benches etc we still don't know!
 
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Heat contained within the die?! 5C knocking years of components?

Would love to see some concrete evidence for that. Not to mention you contradict yourself.

I've explained why Intel run hotter above.

Obviously it varies with components and what their lifespan is to begin with but try looking at things like capacitors, power supplies and hard drives.. all have MTBF ratings based on ambient/operating temperatures. The cooler you can keep them the longer they last which is why it's preferable not to have a huge source of heat output in the middle of your case if you can help it. Why do you all think AMD are going the expensive AIO cooler route and not just sticking a slab of aluminium/copper with 3 fans on their cards? aftermarket style coolers may cool GPU's well but they don't take into consideration other components.
 
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The 8800GT and 8800GTS 512MB and its rebrands were fighting against the HD3870, HD4830,HD4850,HD4770 and HD5770.

I had loads of cards - including derivatives like the 9600GSO and so on.

It was not fighting against the the X1950XT - stop distorting things. Even the 2900XT example is stupid as at the time,people knew the HD3870 was coming which itself made the 2900XT redundant.

The 8800GT was released at the end of October 2007 and the HD3870 in the middle of November.

I should know as I ordered both when they were first available to buy in the UK,but I cancelled my 8800GT order once I knew the 8800GTS 512MB was coming in December. The 8800GT was so popular there was backlogs for orders.

So it appears you are OK with Nvidia rebranding the G92 core a 1000 times even when AMD/ATI three different cores.

I had loads of G92 and equivalent ATI/AMD cards at the time.

It came from having two gaming PCs each with an ATI or Nvidia card in it.



LOL.

I remember that card - it was literally two graphics card with two PCBs!!

None of this makes any sense. How can a card launch and compete with a card that doesn't exist. You're just listing out cards that came a year later, and one that wasn't released. I know exactly what you are trying to say as I had two 3870s, but I'd come from a 8800GTX - most people who owned that card wouldn't have looked twice at the GT as it wasn't a successor. You are the one warping the facts.
 
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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.

He's right though. This 390x is more power hungry. It's going to be a hotter card spared the improved cooling. At least the 8800GT was faster and priced underneath the GTX at the same time of its reign. Making it seem like a damn good card. It was also a single slot cooler.

Compared to this kettle of fish..more than a year later, a ton of cards under the competitions belt and it's exactly the same card! LOL.

All rebrands are uninteresting, some are just a lot more senseless than others

The 8800GT and 8800GTS 512MB cards were rebranded against better AMD cards like the HD4830,HD4850,HD5770 and so on.

Also,hotness argument is just getting boring - the 9000 series Nvidia cards were rated for well over 100C. My mates single slot 9800GT could run very hot and it was in a SFF PC,so it was running well into the 90s for YEARS.

HD4870 cards ran hot and still were fine. Had mates with hot running GTX470 cards which lasted for years. The Titan X runs quite hot. Some of the pre-overclocked GTX970 cards could run hot. I have used SFF PCs since 2005 - all my cards have run hotter than average and have been fine for years.

As long as the card does not throttle and the capacitors are good quality solid jobbies,the cards will last for years.

Nobody is ditching their Haswell CPUs since they run hot. Most owners of Haswell CPUs in the world are using stock coolers,meaning they are run into the 80s and 90s quite easily if stressed.

Heat production is another thing - but people seem to be interchangeably using waste heat production and hotness when they are NOT the same things.


And so on? The 5770 didn't come till 2 years later. The 8880GT was primarily set up against the 2900XT and 1950XTX. TITAN X is a 250w part, power consumption on the 390X is considerably higher, for less performance.

This is where arguments arise. Lack of facts and sound logical reasoning! Thankfully it's difficult to argue further with such logic so I will leave you to your devices.

None of this makes any sense. How can a card launch and compete with a card that doesn't exist. You're just listing out cards that came a year later, and one that wasn't released. I know exactly what you are trying to say as I had two 3870s, but I'd come from a 8800GTX - most people who owned that card wouldn't have looked twice at the GT as it wasn't a successor. You are the one warping the facts.

It does not make any sense in your mind only. Funny only rebrands seem OK for you if they are Nvidia ones. But I expect it won't make any sense for you either.

You are on purpose twisting things.

The X1950XT was replaced by the 2900XT. The 8800GT was not competing with the X1950XT. The 2900XT was barely available by the time the HD3870 GDDR4 was released as it was being replaced. The 8800GT and HD3870 were released at the same time. They were competing with each other. The G92 core was rebranded multiple times to compete with newer cores from the HD4000 and HD5000 series,and now you are deflecting and trying to warp your argument.

Yet,you are complaining about rebranding,yet you on purpose ignore the fact that the G92 core was rebranded multiple times to compete with the HD4000 and HD5000 series.

So that gives it something like nearly three years as the Nvidia midrange core until the GTX460 was released.

Give it a rest.
 
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And this is usually the point where it drops down to petty backwards and forwards because logic goes out the window.

Break down, 8800GT launched, was pegged against AMD's 2900XT, meanwhile in the same range as the 8800GTX yet below it. 8800GTX was still at that time current, not to mention the 3870 was slower than a 8800GT.

Then along came the 3870. It came later, as is the general pattern with these releases. You then labelled off cards that didn't hit the shelves till the following year based on the same node. But you win, no worries. You're absolutely right...


Generally goings on and node drops throughout a 6 to 8 month period.

Compared with 2 years on, and it's the same core with a moderate bump in clocks.


Totally comparable, not.
 
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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.

He's right though. This 390x is more power hungry. It's going to be a hotter card spared the improved cooling. At least the 8800GT was faster and priced underneath the GTX at the same time of its reign. Making it seem like a damn good card. It was also a single slot cooler.

Compared to this kettle of fish..more than a year later, a ton of cards under the competitions belt and it's exactly the same card! LOL.

All rebrands are uninteresting, some are just a lot more senseless than others

The 8800GT and 8800GTS 512MB cards were rebranded against better AMD cards like the HD4830,HD4850,HD5770 and so on.

Also,hotness argument is just getting boring - the 9000 series Nvidia cards were rated for well over 100C. My mates single slot 9800GT could run very hot and it was in a SFF PC,so it was running well into the 90s for YEARS.

HD4870 cards ran hot and still were fine. Had mates with hot running GTX470 cards which lasted for years. The Titan X runs quite hot. Some of the pre-overclocked GTX970 cards could run hot. I have used SFF PCs since 2005 - all my cards have run hotter than average and have been fine for years.

As long as the card does not throttle and the capacitors are good quality solid jobbies,the cards will last for years.

Nobody is ditching their Haswell CPUs since they run hot. Most owners of Haswell CPUs in the world are using stock coolers,meaning they are run into the 80s and 90s quite easily if stressed.

Heat production is another thing - but people seem to be interchangeably using waste heat production and hotness when they are NOT the same things.


And so on? The 5770 didn't come till 2 years later. The 8880GT was primarily set up against the 2900XT and 1950XTX. TITAN X is a 250w part, power consumption on the 390X is considerably higher, for less performance.

This is where arguments arise. Lack of facts and sound logical reasoning! Thankfully it's difficult to argue further with such logic so I will leave you to your devices.

None of this makes any sense. How can a card launch and compete with a card that doesn't exist. You're just listing out cards that came a year later, and one that wasn't released. I know exactly what you are trying to say as I had two 3870s, but I'd come from a 8800GTX - most people who owned that card wouldn't have looked twice at the GT as it wasn't a successor. You are the one warping the facts.

It does not make any sense in your mind only. Funny only rebrands seem OK for you if they are Nvidia ones. But I expect it won't make any sense for you either.

You are on purpose twisting things.

The X1950XT was replaced by the 2900XT. The 8800GT was not competing with the X1950XT. The 2900XT was barely available by the time the HD3870 GDDR4 was released as it was being replaced. The 8800GT and HD3870 were released at the same time. They were competing with each other. The G92 core was rebranded multiple times to compete with newer cores from the HD4000 and HD5000 series,and now you are deflecting and trying to warp your argument.

Yet,you are complaining about rebranding,yet you on purpose ignore the fact that the G92 core was rebranded multiple times to compete with the HD4000 and HD5000 series.

So that gives it something like nearly three years as the Nvidia midrange core until the GTX460 was released.

Give it a rest.

And this is usually the point where it drops down to petty backwards and forwards because logic goes out the window.

Break down, 8800GT launched, was pegged against AMD's 2900XT, meanwhile in the same range as the 8800GTX yet below it. 8800GTX was still at that time current, not to mention the 3870 was slower than a 8800GT.

Then along came the 3870. It came later, as is the general pattern with these releases. You then labelled off cards that didn't hit the shelves till the following year based on the same node. But you win, no worries. You're absolutely right...

Backtrack! Backtrack!

Silent Scone logic.

TLDR.

Nvidia does rebrand =awesome even if rebrand is fighting for three years against multiple new cores including those one process node ahead.

AMD does rebrand = terribad if fighting against one single new core on the same process node.

So basically Boomstick was right.
 
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There's nothing magical about it, small surface area (more than half of the already tiny die is the iGPU) along with poor heatspreader contact makes it so that the die gets hotter and can't disperse heat efficiently, you get similar temp and heat extraction with Intel's latest CPU's whether you use the piddly stock cooler or a monstrous dual radiator heatsink. AMD are still on 28nm so like Intel with Sandy Bridge don't have the same problem but do pump out loads of heat, Sandy Bridge-E was similar in heat output to AMD FX but Intel have since moved on.
Intel CPU's run 30C hotter than the AMD equivalents but most of the heat is contained within the die, if you measured the amount of heat being exhausted into the case it wouldn't even be a close contest between Haswell and AMD FX.
The temperature is higher but that does not mean heat is being contained within the die and thereby influencing heat output into the rest of the case. They consume less power to do their work and therefore produce less heat. The higher temperature delta will improve heat dissipation, the required dissipation is just occurring at a higher temperature. In your scenario you would get similar temp/heat extraction because the temperature is required to get that heat extraction and the HS on top of the IHS is sufficient.

It's odd, from your posts its like you understand this stuff (you referred to the meaningless of it unless throttling, noise etc) but don't understand it, or at least choose to connect the dots so badly with an anti-red marker pen and/or phrase awkwardly all of the time-which is why I want to buy the magical cpu's. Anyhow this is off topic and while I do care, I care not enough. Bring on tomorrow.
 
The 8800GT and HD3870 were released at the same time. They were competing with each other. The G92 core was rebranded multiple times to compete with newer cores from the HD4000 and HD5000 series

This is all correct.


8800GT launched, was pegged against AMD's 2900XT, meanwhile in the same range as the 8800GTX yet below it. 8800GTX was still at that time current, not to mention the 3870 was slower than a 8800GT.

The bit you're missing is that the 8800GT was the next generation on from the 8800GTX, it's just they launched a non-flagship card first (in order to compete with the imminent HD3870) and decided not to change the series name. They did this after to add confusion, with the 8800GT becoming the 9800GT and the 8800GTS 512MB becoming the 9800GTX (just the 512MB GTS, the 320MB/640MB ones were older cards from the same series as the 8800GTX)
 
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This is all correct.




The bit your missing is that the 8800GT was the next generation on from the 8800GTX, it's just they launched the non-flagship card first (to compete with the imminent HD3870) and decided not to change the series name (they did this after to add confusion).

I'm not missing anything, consumers don't give a hoot what is a response to what unless you're an avid 'follower'. Being pedantic, the 8800GT was reviewed against the 2900XT.

That isn't a straight rebrand. The 9800GTX didn't come till April the following year and had the total number of cores and higher clock speeds (25-30% faster). That's just under a 5 month gap for a bigger part.


Now tell me that's the same as releasing a card that has the exact same identical core as it's predecessor 2 years prior? It's not nearly as ridiculous.
Answer is you can't, because it's plain stupid. Hence the need for FITH to throw in cards that wouldn't have even existed until 12 months later as an example of direct competition lol.
 
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