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Jono8 said:
If the rumours are true and the 980 beats a 780Ti by 10% at stock and does it whilst only drawing 170w (and presumably decent heat output at that tdp) then the 290/290x will be defunct unless they can be had cheap as chips.
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To be honest though, I find that rumour hard to believe. Being 10% faster than the 780Ti is difficult enough with the current 28nm limitation, but only usage 170W as well? That sound too good to be true...had it been 200-225W at least it would have been more believable.
 
Jono8 said:
Probably not. AMD and retailers will be trying to get rid of 290/290x stock/make them more attractive price wise, before the 970/980 comes a long and makes them look obsolete. If the rumours are true and the 980 beats a 780Ti by 10% at stock and does it whilst only drawing 170w (and presumably decent heat output at that tdp) then the 290/290x will be defunct unless they can be had cheap as chips.
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Shame about the rumoured memory and bus specs on the new NVidia card, 4K could make it obsolete before it even hits the shelves.:p

That is the problem with rumours, people pick the ones that suit them and disregard the rest.:D
 
OcUK really have come on leaps and bounds in the competitive price department over the last 5/6 years, they used to be average, now I find them hard to beat on pretty much everything.
 
Does ocuk ship to Finland? :P, that is dirt cheap compared to what we have here.. tempted to buy and put a aftermarket cooler on it.
 
Jono8 said:
Probably not. AMD and retailers will be trying to get rid of 290/290x stock/make them more attractive price wise, before the 970/980 comes a long and makes them look obsolete. If the rumours are true and the 980 beats a 780Ti by 10% at stock and does it whilst only drawing 170w (and presumably decent heat output at that tdp) then the 290/290x will be defunct unless they can be had cheap as chips.
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Absolute rubbish.

So a new card cost hundreds more than current 290/290X will stop those from selling, that is wrong.

If you were correct then AMD 280 and 280X would not have sold, but wait they sell because they cost less. :)

AMD Reference 290/290X have not sold for months, they are on aged stock reports for people and well the only way I was gonna take the stock was if my demands were met. :D
 
Marine-RX179 said:
To be honest though, I find that rumour hard to believe. Being 10% faster than the 780Ti is difficult enough with the current 28nm limitation, but only usage 170W as well? That sound too good to be true...had it been 200-225W at least it would have been more believable.
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I can believe it if Kepler is anything to go by.

Maxwell is a good architecture, having said that it looks to me a bit like one of the ways they got the power consumption down was to tone down or remove some of the most power hungry aspects of the GPU.

The performance of it looks good for 65 Watts, its at least as fast as a GTX 650TI Boosted while using about 40 Watts less power. that is until it gets to something demanding, like Crysis 3, then it falls apart... a lot of lighting and shadowing to render and it falls flat on its face. it drops way below GTX 650TI Boosted performance levels.

Take nothing a way from it, i think for its power envelop its pretty good, but cynically i think Nvidia have gone at it with power-consumption over capability in mind.
 
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I am really pleased I got reference 290Xs as they seem to overclock as well if not better than the non reference ones.

Reference 290X + Asus GPUTweak + waterblock = very rapid performance.:D
 
Kaapstad said:
I am really pleased I got reference 290Xs as they seem to overclock as well if not better than the non reference ones.

Reference 290X + Asus GPUTweak + waterblock = very rapid performance.:D
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A lot of the AIB 290/X are actually Reference PCB's, the Try-X, XFX, My PCS+... we just aren't as brave as you and Matt, mine will do 1225/1550 without artefacts, i have no doubt it will do ~1300 if i really push it, i just have too much of an emotional attachment to it to put it through that. ;)

you do know those reference PCB's are actually Sapphire?
 
Crap I was considering at some point down the line getting one to go with my R9 295x2. This makes it much more tempting.
 
David Bisset said:
woof, great time to go for CrossFireX & blocks!
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yes, two will be slightly cheaper than a 295X2 but maybe overclock slightly more, because i think that the 295x2 has a low temp throttle back.

but this will still need a water cooling kit....the dual card is 240 rad so two singles are probably 240 as well
 
Gibbo said:
Absolute rubbish.

So a new card cost hundreds more than current 290/290X will stop those from selling, that is wrong.

If you were correct then AMD 280 and 280X would not have sold, but wait they sell because they cost less. :)

AMD Reference 290/290X have not sold for months, they are on aged stock reports for people and well the only way I was gonna take the stock was if my demands were met. :D
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what?

That is my point. The 290/290X have not sold at the price they were at and they certainly would not have once the new cards come out, hence your price drop :confused:

I was just saying that the 980 is not going to be anywhere near £270. BUt the 290X would be unlikely to sell at its previous price point of ~£340 if a 980 was released at ~£400.
 
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How true is the stuff about noise and temps? I'd buy one in a heartbeat to Crossfire, but I don't want throttling etc. Getting a cooler and installing it would be fine, but don't want to void warranty.

I think temp is more an issue than noise because I game pretty much exclusively with headphones on.
 
Matt said the reference ones don't throttle anymore due to a driver update which applies a more robust fan profile. Not sure how loud that is though.
 
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