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

please tell me theres going to be cards available to at least order tonight/tomorrow.

set myself a £400 ceiling for a new card(I did initially say £300 but i'm weak willed)

cant wait :)
 
Th0nt said:
4k gaming is not gonna be worth jumping into quite yet.

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The more I think about it, the more I feel this statement is correct. Unless you have loads of disposable cash, the price to get 4K gaming is going to be huge.

If 4K monitors were £1500
AMD release the 290X at £400
The speed of the 290X is exactly the same as Titan

Here is what you would need (my thinking anyway)

A minimum of 3 R9 290X GPU's - £1200
A minimum of a 4930K clocked at 4.8Ghz - £440
An X79 mobo - £150
A 1200W PSU - £180
The 4K screen - £1500

Total: £3470

Obviously, that is assuming you need to upgrade your existing computer (maybe you have an I5). That for me is a lot of money to get 4K gaming (and if you are buying a 4K monitor, no one wants to turn settings down).

The ideal scenario would be to have 1 or maybe 2 GPU's powering a 4K screen at acceptable frame rates and I don't seriously think this is an option till we see Volta from Nvidia and AMD's follow up to Sea Islands (sorry don't know what that will be called).

In time, obviously everything will come down in price as new tech is released and I fully expect a single GPU to power a 4K monitor with little effort but when that day comes, I have no clue (but I look forward to it). But for 4K gaming being of now??? I feel it isn't for the majority of us PC gamers.
 
Its going to be a massive anti-climax, here is the card and the specs but you have to wait 3 weeks for availability before you get to see any benchmarks other than the usual look and see how many Bungholio marks it can produce.:D
 
bru said:
Its going to be a massive anti-climax, here is the card and the specs but you have to wait 3 weeks for availability before you get to see any benchmarks other than the usual look and see how many Bungholio marks it can produce.:D
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That's probably true. Even if there is a good performance indication, we will all go crazy waiting for the RRP announcement.
 
233 said:
please tell me theres going to be cards available to at least order tonight/tomorrow.

set myself a £400 ceiling for a new card(I did initially say £300 but i'm weak willed)

cant wait :)
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you wont be buying a 290 then then be 450 minimum probably 500-600
 
Gregster said:
The more I think about it, the more I feel this statement is correct. Unless you have loads of disposable cash, the price to get 4K gaming is going to be huge.

If 4K monitors were £1500
AMD release the 290X at £400
The speed of the 290X is exactly the same as Titan

Here is what you would need (my thinking anyway)

A minimum of 3 R9 290X GPU's - £1200
A minimum of a 4930K clocked at 4.8Ghz - £440
An X79 mobo - £150
A 1200W PSU - £180
The 4K screen - £1500

Total: £3470

Obviously, that is assuming you need to upgrade your existing computer (maybe you have an I5). That for me is a lot of money to get 4K gaming (and if you are buying a 4K monitor, no one wants to turn settings down).

The ideal scenario would be to have 1 or maybe 2 GPU's powering a 4K screen at acceptable frame rates and I don't seriously think this is an option till we see Volta from Nvidia and AMD's follow up to Sea Islands (sorry don't know what that will be called).

In time, obviously everything will come down in price as new tech is released and I fully expect a single GPU to power a 4K monitor with little effort but when that day comes, I have no clue (but I look forward to it). But for 4K gaming being of now??? I feel it isn't for the majority of us PC gamers.
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add to that the fact that you wont be playing next gen games (e.g. Unreal engine 4.0) with all the bells and whistles at 4k with decent framerates, even with 3 (or 4) of those R9 290x's.
 
Gregster said:
The more I think about it, the more I feel this statement is correct. Unless you have loads of disposable cash, the price to get 4K gaming is going to be huge.


In time, obviously everything will come down in price as new tech is released and I fully expect a single GPU to power a 4K monitor with little effort but when that day comes, I have no clue (but I look forward to it). But for 4K gaming being of now??? I feel it isn't for the majority of us PC gamers.
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I think to do 4K properly you are going to need 2 single GPU cards in xfire or SLI that are each at least twice as fast as a Titan. The reason I say 2 cards is SLI/xfire works most of the time with 2 card setups.

Unfortunately anything that fast is still a couple of years away.
 
The rumor is $550

Thats £344, + 20% VAT = £412

So lets say:

R9 290X (2880 SP's, 48 ROP, 512Bit) = £400 to £420
R9 290 (2560 SP's 48 ROP, 512Bit) = £320 to £350

R9 280X (7970) = £250 to £270
R9 280 (7950) = £200 to £220

R9 270X (7870XT) = £160 to 170
R9 270 (7870) = £140 to £150

R9 260X (7790) = £110 to £120
R9 260 (7770) = £90 to £100

Yes / No / Dream on.....
 
humbug said:
The rumor is $550

Thats £344, + 20% VAT = £412

So lets say:

R9 290X (2880 SP's, 48 ROP, 512Bit) = £400 to £420
R9 290 (2560 SP's 48 ROP, 512Bit) = £320 to £350

R9 280X (7970) = £250 to £270
R9 280 (7950) = £200 to £220

R9 270X (7870XT) = £160 to 170
R9 270 (7870) = £140 to £150

R9 260X (7790) = £110 to £120
R9 260 (7770) = £90 to £100

Yes / No / Dream on.....
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I thought the rumour was $650?
 
Hopefully the new flagship will come in where people are hoping, which would make sense really as they should have learned their lessons from the HD7990 and FX9590 pricing.
 
Nightglow said:
You can already get the Seiki SE50UY04 a 50" 4k tv in the USA for around $1000.
So, wouldn't surprise me if we starting seeing cheaper basic 4k tv's here by Christmas.
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yep they are getting cheaper fast, atleast the tv's are, and the upscaling really looks good, you wont need to run something at 4k native to see the benefit, and hell u can run a game at 1920 in a window and have other stuff u doing on the same screen, its awesome :)

i want sony to do a 42inch version without the crazy speakers on the side for my bedroom :)
 
AMD need to give people a push to go their cards, pricing it in the same territory as the 780 with minimal performance gains is not gonna do that. I'm looking for a £400-450 price point, much higher than that then it will have to have significant performance over a 780 to justify it.
 
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