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

Cd0gz · 23 Sep 2013 at 18:07

More info.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Sorry wrong place. Had two windows open at the same time.

malachi · 23 Sep 2013 at 18:25

233 said:
Hoping for a replacement for my 6970

Tucked away £400 but would ideally get a £300 card with double the performance and I'd be happy

If it out performs my 6970's in xfire by a good amount then I'm in the same boat as you. Dont think I can reach £400 though as I have money stored way for both next gen consoles for release.

psychas · 23 Sep 2013 at 19:15

233 said:
Hoping for a replacement for my 6970

Tucked away £400 but would ideally get a £300 card with double the performance and I'd be happy

I replaced 6970 (sold it for110£) to 7950 windforce (bought it for 165 or 162 £) from ocuk , but now in dilemma sell 7950 or add another one , would like single card solution , something that could handle 120hz bf4 without blure or dof at least.

edit: but i'm afraid if i want to replace 7950 will cost more then 50 ~ 60 £ extra

VincentHanna · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:22

I'm still running a 6870.

Whatever AMD announce in two days will most likely end up in my PC, as it's going to be hugely more powerful than that.

RavenXXX2 · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:26

How much that is the question. I think it will be £450 in the UK.

the1gooner · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:26

VincentHanna said:
I'm still running a 6870.

Whatever AMD announce in two days will most likely end up in my PC, as it's going to be hugely more powerful than that.

Running a 6870 here as well which i think cost about £200 when i bought it on release.

Got a good feeling that £200 spent on the new card releases is going to get me something much more powerful.

Evil Star · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:33

I hope AMD have an equivalent to Nvidia's Shadowplay program in the works.

LtMatt · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:36

Its going to equal or slightly beat a titan, being 33% smaller in die size whilst being considerably cheaper. Wish i could afford one.

ToxicTBag · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:37

Am thinking around £579.99 for the top tier asus/evga etc £549.99 palit/gainward and as soon as gouging is over they will settle back to £499.99 in the space of a fortnight

LtMatt · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:38

ToxicTBag said:
Am thinking around £579.99 for the top tier asus/evga etc £549.99 palit/gainward and as soon as gouging is over they will settle back to £499.99 in the space of a fortnight

Only Asus out of the ones you listed are an AMD AIB.

ToxicTBag · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:39

typo but the prices I will stick with cheers LtMatt

LtMatt · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:42

ToxicTBag said:
typo but the prices I will stick with cheers LtMatt

Interesting. My prediction is £425-£500.

ToxicTBag · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:48

Have spent that much time thinking of these cards, what they might bring will I change over from NVidia that I cannot even get Amd aib's right I plumbed for the gigabyte 7990's on special over the weekend and be done with it.
Would certainly like to roadtest one of the new cards but will have to wait another month, what are your plans LtMatt? :confused:

teppic · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:51

LtMatt said:
Interesting. My prediction is £425-£500.

Narrow it down a bit! Might as well predict £1-1000

LtMatt · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:52

ToxicTBag said:
Have spent that much time thinking of these cards, what they might bring will I change over from NVidia that I cannot even get Amd aib's right I plumbed for the gigabyte 7990's on special over the weekend and be done with it.
Would certainly like to roadtest one of the new cards but will have to wait another month, what are your plans LtMatt?

I'm stuck with what i have. Thanks to OCUK my cards are not worth selling any more.

LtMatt · 23 Sep 2013 at 20:53

teppic said:
Narrow it down a bit! Might as well predict £1-1000

Its not that bad. £425-£475.

gpuerrilla · 23 Sep 2013 at 21:37

Martini1991 said:
The 7770 launched higher priced than the better 6850.

That it was. However it was not better than the 7770 when better drivers came out and it has superior power consumption efficiency.

Kaapstad · 23 Sep 2013 at 22:10

teppic said:
Narrow it down a bit! Might as well predict £1-1000

My prediction

When the R9 290X goes on the shelves it will be £50 less than the cheapest GTX 780.

The problem is what will NVidia do with their pricing if anything between now and October.

flopper · 23 Sep 2013 at 22:19

Kaapstad said:
My prediction

When the R9 290X goes on the shelves it will be £50 less than the cheapest GTX 780.

The problem is what will NVidia do with their pricing if anything between now and October.

Nvidia is likely to do nothing.
Unless they want to angry every Titan buyer by lowering price...too much.
This might be a price/performance war nvidia cant win.

Kaapstad · 23 Sep 2013 at 22:25

flopper said:
Nvidia is likely to do nothing.
Unless they want to angry every Titan buyer by lowering price...too much.
This might be a price/performance war nvidia cant win.

They won't anger me by lowering prices.

I bought my Titan's with the view that they were guaranteed to lose value quickly, also I am more interested in what performance GPUs can manage rather than having them as a sound investment. Anyone buying a highend GPU for any other reason would be unwise. :eek: