AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory

Ferrari100 · 3 Oct 2013 at 16:52

bru said:
This came up before, if they had of announced the card and said it is available now, at this price, then there is no way the competition can do anything before it launched. it is only because they are stringing things along that Nvidia has the chance to do something before the cards arrive.

But what can nvidia do now?
Lower prices sure. But how much to be competitive?
They can't answer that....
yet.

Gregster · 3 Oct 2013 at 17:09

Stanners said:
Or you have a bag of turd and want people to pre order as much as possible before you unleash the numbers.

Kaap has ordered 4 boxes of turd

Phixsator · 3 Oct 2013 at 17:27

Gregster said:
Kaap has ordered 4 boxes of turd

Its going to be the fastest turd setup in here. Looking forward to some benchmarks.

decto · 3 Oct 2013 at 17:37

Are there any decent benchmarks out?

Only ones I seem to find are at unplayable frame rates with a res of 5760 x 1080 and loads of AA which only shows the R9 has more memory bandwidth than Nvidia.

Where are the leaked benchmarks with performance in the 60+ fps range to see how the card will really run.

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Geeman1979 · 3 Oct 2013 at 17:46

Gregster said:
Kaap has ordered 4 boxes of turd

That's a lot of xxxx

nitram100 · 3 Oct 2013 at 18:04

If it's over £500 then i'm out. My 7950 still has some life in it yet.

DJRichard · 3 Oct 2013 at 18:04

Im not all that great with specs etc. I see the 290X is rated for PCI-E 3.0, I have a P8p67 pro at the moment.

Would I have to upgrade my mother board also? If I didnt, would there be a big difference in performance? I generally play FPS at 2560x1440, but I also play driving games and that would be played at 7680x1440. I have 580 SLI at the moment and that is starting to struggle now.

What about my RAM if I have to buy a new mobo, would there be any real world gaming gains to be had from upgrading that? I have 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3.

Steampunk · 3 Oct 2013 at 18:29

DJRichard said:
Im not all that great with specs etc. I see the 290X is rated for PCI-E 3.0, I have a P8p67 pro at the moment.

PCIe 3 is backwards compatible with PCIe 2. I don't think you'll see a massive difference in performance. There's been some discussion on Beyond3D about how Crossfire is now done over the PCIe bus, and the consensus from those who know about these things is that whilst on paper PCIe 3 is a lot faster, it won't really impact in-game performance much at all. Plus don't forget these new cards will have a lot of on-board memory anyway.

The best thing to do is try the new card in the old rig, and see if the performance is adequate before you think about replacing everything. I think it's more likely you'll get a CPU bottleneck on the graphics card before you have to worry about the benefits of going from PCIe 2 to PCIe 3.

Something Else · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:02

Also sandybridge doesnt support pcie 3.0, you need at least ivy

Shawreyboy · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:15

Elric from Tech of Tomorrow has stated the price has been leaked on a certain site for the R9 290X at $799.00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h18qWO3zIK4

Inb4 nvidia troll.

EDIT: Its the top comment on that vid. Vid is for MSI GTX 780 Lightning unboxing.

$799.00 US equals £495 plus first day price gouging i'll bet just short of £600.

Nelly · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:35

Just think... it might have the power consumption of a GTX 480... :eek:

Wish their was more info... lol

gpuerrilla · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:36

Shawreyboy said:
Elric from Tech of Tomorrow has stated the price has been leaked on a certain site for the R9 290X at $799.00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h18qWO3zIK4

Inb4 nvidia troll.

EDIT: Its the top comment on that vid. Vid is for MSI GTX 780 Lightning unboxing.

$799.00 US equals £495 plus first day price gouging i'll bet just short of £600.

If true, just wait for the price war and it will fall to sensible price of around £450.

Rusty0611 · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:37

Shawreyboy said:
$799.00 US equals £495 plus first day price gouging i'll bet just short of £600.

+20% VAT

~>Dg<~ · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:39

havent you read the ocuk sale write up

Upon product launch in mid-end October you will need to pay the remaining fee which will be several hundred pounds.

799 ! hahahahah

Shawreyboy · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:41

Rusty0611 said:
+20% VAT

Ofcourse i forgot VAT. So £500 + £100 VAT + plus first day price gouging your looking at £650/£680

I think I'll pass.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:43

Shawreyboy said:
Elric from Tech of Tomorrow has stated the price has been leaked on a certain site for the R9 290X at $799.00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h18qWO3zIK4

Inb4 nvidia troll.

EDIT: Its the top comment on that vid. Vid is for MSI GTX 780 Lightning unboxing.

$799.00 US equals £495 plus first day price gouging i'll bet just short of £600.

Now it says $730 on there. Another retailer in the UK briefly listed the BF4 special edition card at well under £600.

Shawreyboy · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:46

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Now it says $730 on there. Another retailer in the UK briefly listed the BF4 special edition card at well under £600.

That's £450 add £90 VAT = £540 plus the extra added on by 1st day it could come in at around £600. I wasn't far wrong with my first guess if this pricing is mirrored here.

~>Dg<~ · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:47

overclockers says it will be 799.00 in the description. is everyone missing this ?

99 pound for deposit then you must clear the remaining 700 pound balance.

gpuerrilla · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:49

~>Dg<~ said:
overclockers says it will be 799.00 in the description. is everyone missing this ?

99 pound for deposit then you must clear the remaining 700 pound balance.

That is a disgusting price.

Orangey · 3 Oct 2013 at 21:50

That newegg price "leak" was from newegg.ca not .com.