How does that affect what i said though Kaap?
I hope its not as Orange!
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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory
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How does that affect what i said though Kaap?
I hope its not as Orange!
(no offence Orangey)Why don't AMD just release at the normal price point instead of trying to rip people off? NVidia will soon drop their prices in order to compete. Are they both price fixing or what? GPU prices are becoming ridiculous.
Like people are saying the NVidia GPU is more expensive to manufacture so NVidia have a valid reason for charging more.
Like people are saying the NVidia GPU is more expensive to manufacture so NVidia have a valid reason for charging more.
Why do you always write that in allcaps?
A good shout.
AMD released the 7970 at a very high price and it only just beat a GTX 580 and quite a few months later, they sort the drivers out and drop the price by half. Not very fair on the early adopters. I hope they don't do the same again with the 290X and release it with sub standard drivers.
@ Raven. They released the 7990 and it was/is a great card but when they released it, there was poor support for CF and micro stutter was a big issue with runt frames being dropped etc, so they missed the opportunity and should have held off the release or just not bothered.
@ Greg
The 7990 was a ridicules launch price, absolutely.
The 7970 was 30% faster than the GTX 580 and £50 more expensive, ok that's perhaps not great.
The GTX Titan was again 30% faster than the 7970 and £650 More expensive.
No getting away from that.
The 7990 was a ridicules launch price, absolutely.
The 7970 was 30% faster than the GTX 580 and £50 more expensive, ok that's perhaps not great.
The GTX Titan was again 30% faster than the 7970 and £650 More expensive.
No getting away from that.
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If you go on the density of the active transistors they are also about the same on a GTX 780 or 290X so my guess is the yields are probably not that much different producing the chips.
The chips used for the GTX 780 are partly disabled GK110s which may have defects on the non active parts.
The 290X launch drivers are already out Greg and they're very good.
They also improve performance on the HD 7k, and allow for better overclocking, and run cooler.
I cranked mine up to 1200 / 1550 from 1150 / 1500 and its still running cooler than it was.
I'm actually considering testing it at 1225 or 1250 to see how it does there, give it a couple more days gaming @ 1200 and then take it up some more, lets see
I require 1.194V for 1125/1500. Any less and i crash after a short while. I will test that theory using 1.188v I hope you're correct. If you're not i will be expecting compensation.
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I'll go with the latter, Matt
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The 7970 was a brand new generation on a new fabrication.
The Titan was just something else entirely (But overpriced)
The 7970's launch compared to the 5870's launch was pitiful.
There'll never be anything like the 5870 again at this rate.
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Thank god for that. The 5870 was an abomination of a card. Honestly never had so much grief before. Especially when in Crossfire.
That isn't an invitation for yet another slanging match. It's not a reflection on any other card.
That isn't an invitation for yet another slanging match. It's not a reflection on any other card.
The 290X launch drivers are already out Greg and they're very good.
Post your results then for the 290X or are you under NDA?
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The 5870 was far from an abomination.