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AMD Cuts All GPU Prices Including R9 Fury X, Fury And Nano – Down To As Low As $569, $499 And $549 R

humbug said:
I have spent over 15 years swapping between vendors, i was AMD less than 6 Moths ago, i would be happy to go back to them when i get another upgrade next year, or i'm happy to stick with Nvidia.

Being a one brand loyalist is silly, its those sorts of people who vendors love to bend over and laugh at.

I make my own choices. I am owned by no one ;)
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You mistake preference for loyalty however. We all make our own choices. If AMD release a product that suited my preferences more than the nVidia one I would buy it, again - irrespective of price. Even if the AMD card was more expensive, if it offered what I wanted/preferred I would buy it.

At this time, with the current products on offer, no price point on AMD cards would entice me to buy them. I'd still pay significantly more for the nVidia product I prefer. I can afford to pay whatever I want on a GPU and will do so to get the product I want. I'm not going to save £100/200/whatever to settle for a product which suits me less. I'll pay the extra and be happy.
 
There are a few things AMD would have to fix before I'd go back.

Or they would have to come out with something earth shattering.

Price drops on either side are always good though :)
 
Poneros said:
I don't even know at what kind of price the AMD Fury cards would be worth going for, the Nano I can understand (but only slightly) as they're good for a niche. Fury though, maybe 350-380? Fury X around 420? That would be the right price for purchase for me but I understand it will never happen until they get retired.
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Why would the Fury have to be cheaper than the 980 which it generally outperforms?
 
Poneros said:
I don't even know at what kind of price the AMD Fury cards would be worth going for, the Nano I can understand (but only slightly) as they're good for a niche. Fury though, maybe 350-380? Fury X around 420? That would be the right price for purchase for me but I understand it will never happen until they get retired.
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The problem amd have is they've flooded every price point, 7 cards from the 380 to FX, they can't reduce one line without making the line below it look irrelevant, very little wiggle room for a price drop without moving the price on all lines.

Take today for example, 390 for £206, the card below, the 380x is around £190. No sane person is going to skip paying the extra £16 on getting a 380x over a 390. (Prices taken at a glance, some 380x may be cheaper?)

Don't get me wrong, it's great to have such a varied choice, in that same price bracket nvidia only have the 4 cards, but you can see how much hard work it must be to try and get prices down without harming the sale of their own lower tier products.
 
r22snapper said:
Why would the Fury have to be cheaper than the 980 which it generally outperforms?
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980 price cuts can't be far off. Sales have slowed massively and it looks extremely uncompetitive vs both the 390X and Fury, not to mention their own 970. Hell, you can get 2x 390 for the price of one of the mid to high end 980s, which is ridiculous. Only reason NVIDIA haven't already done it is that then there'd be an even bigger price gap until their next SKU (980Ti), ceding a huge range of prices straight to AMD.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Why?

Price is not the sole reason to buy a certain GPU. I would not buy AMD irrespective of price either. It's not really a difficult thing to understand.
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It's things like that that kind of make me want to see Nvida go under. Just to see if he would stand by his words and run games of Intel integrated graphics :)
 
Grey Thursday drifts by with no price drops worth mentioning here....
What about Black (Blag) Friday or Cyber Monday.
Spent loads at this store in 2015 but thus far wallet staying shut!
 
fs123 said:
Thanks for that bit of invaluable info. You'd have to change your name anyway if you did go AMD. Don't waste your time in this AMD thread mate..bye bye.
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He must be one of those 'proud' Nvidia owners that feel 'pride' using the card and fighting the 'evil and crap' AMD.

Good news for me. Got a 980GTX at the moment and while it's still cutting through everything, it dies when cranking up sliders on 4K gaming.

What AMD card would be a good upgrade from a 980GTX? Now or when the new cards hit?
 
regulus said:
He must be one of those 'proud' Nvidia owners that feel 'pride' using the card and fighting the 'evil and crap' AMD.

Good news for me. Got a 980GTX at the moment and while it's still cutting through everything, it dies when cranking up sliders on 4K gaming.

What AMD card would be a good upgrade from a 980GTX? Now or when the new cards hit?
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Fury's are the only upgrade but wouldn't consider them a good upgrade in my eyes (I like a decent jump in performance) so I'd wait for next set of cards.
 
regulus said:
He must be one of those 'proud' Nvidia owners that feel 'pride' using the card and fighting the 'evil and crap' AMD.

Good news for me. Got a 980GTX at the moment and while it's still cutting through everything, it dies when cranking up sliders on 4K gaming.

What AMD card would be a good upgrade from a 980GTX? Now or when the new cards hit?
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As someone who in the past 8 months has owned a 980GTX, 980Ti and now an R9 Fury pro I can say that the 980 is pretty useless as a 4K card. You simply have to drop far too much graphical setting to compared to the other two cards. Obviously the 980Ti is faster than an R9 Fury but not by as much as you would imagine, even when overclocked. Especially with the recent AMD driver improvements and voltage unlocks.

R9 Fury and Fury X are nowhere near the overclockers dream claimed by AMD (shame on them for that BS) but with Voltage control I am getting a stable OC of 1140 on my core and 550 on VRAM. Though to be honest I only went AMD because I wanted adaptive sync (g-syng/freesync) on a 4K, 21:9, 32" or above monitor.

Overall I would say my R9 Fury is around 15% slower than my 980Ti (1450 core 8GHz VRAM) OC vs OC at 4K.
 
ICDP said:
As someone who in the past 8 months has owned a 980GTX, 980Ti and now an R9 Fury pro I can say that the 980 is pretty useless as a 4K card. You simply have to drop far too much graphical setting to compared to the other two cards. Obviously the 980Ti is faster than an R9 Fury but not by as much as you would imagine, even when overclocked. Especially with the recent AMD driver improvements and voltage unlocks.

R9 Fury and Fury X are nowhere near the overclockers dream claimed by AMD (shame on them for that BS) but with Voltage control I am getting a stable OC of 1140 on my core and 550 on VRAM. Though to be honest I only went AMD because I wanted adaptive sync (g-syng/freesync) on a 4K, 21:9, 32" or above monitor.

Overall I would say my R9 Fury is around 15% slower than my 980Ti (1450 core 8GHz VRAM) OC vs OC at 4K.
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Yeah I think I'm going to go AMD next year, when they get the new cards out with more than 4gb vram (I tend to buy an entire system then wait 2 or 3 years before upgrading so didn't want to jump on fury's just in case they lacked future proofing with vram) and they'll have the die shrink too for bigger performance increases.

This monitor is just awesome, IPS, freesynch and 4k.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lg-2...g-widescreen-led-monitor-black-mo-138-lg.html

You can't get anywhere near that on Nvidia G-synch without paying nearly double the price. I've never been too bothered about huge fps (as long as I can maintain 60 or so I don't need the 144 hz stuff) but yeah, the next series of fury cards and a good freesynch monitor and nothing Nvidia has could offer anywhere near the same value or experience without paying way over the odds. There monitors and GPU's tend to be quite a bit more but like you said, not that big a difference tbh so I'm going to make sure I keep an eye on these good components and get a real nice rig next year. If AMD tries to learn from this pricing next year too then we could see AMD claw back some market share if people actually notice what is on offer.
 
That is an excellent spec monitor for the price.

I had no intention of selling my 980Ti until I saw that the range of G-sync monitors had nothing that met my needs. I ended up with this and can not be happier as I even got a hacked driver that increase Freesync range to 33-60 Hz. A single R9 Fury is running most of my games at high-ultra settings. Of course faster is always better but Freesync (and G-Sync) definitely make even 33 FPS very playable.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...g-widescreen-led-monitor-black-mo-217-sa.html
 
Yeah it's pretty nice to say when you want gsync you've got the choice of either going down a resolution (like 1440p) or paying an extra 200 or 300 to get similar spec. If it was just graphics cards then Nvidia would have some edge but when looking at the full package (if getting a new monitor) then it costs far more to get similar from Nvidia.

I think Nvidia are going to keep riding on the massive sales but at least there's some good deals to be had if people look around. I was considering going to Nvidia's end too but when looking at the range of monitors I had the same issue as you, nothing worth the price or fitting of what I wanted. I think Nvidia are charging too high a premium at the moment and a lot of people seem happy to swallow it up but when you look at it objectively Nvidia aren't going to offer the same experience when it comes to what you can get with certain budgets.
 
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