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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory
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Pretty sorry state of affairs reading back the last 2 pages. We are all performance enthusiasts, yet someone posts up the first pic of a 290 with water block and it just goes by almost unnoticed as the bickering from the usual suspects continues.
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I signed up for the AMD newsletter and that's the e-mail I got. Will try and get a screenshot, give me 2 minutes.
The 290X is launching with BF4, isn't it?
That's just talking about the US launch of BF4 as far as i can see.
Soldato
Stop chuntering and just accept that people might have a different viewpoint on something to you. That's what a forum is afterall.
Soldato
They're talking about the BF4 launch, which is the 29th October (for the US).
No mention at all of any GPU in that, it's just BF4.
Soldato
25th...Please me the 25th..
Caporegime
25th...Please me the 25th..
It is so going to be the 28th. The dark side in me told me.
Caporegime
Yep, they will be £512.78 give or take a couple of hundered
No idea on prices now, let alone after they have plenty of stock
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Why on earth are they keeping reviews/release date/price secret at this point? Why not release all info so we know what to do. All this secrecy is beyond stupid.
Soldato
To kill something it must not survive "the hit".
The hardware is nothing Nvidia can do anything about - beyond some tweaked BIOS, but they can lower the price.
So I guess it comes down to if they can lower it enough to be the same/lower than that of the 290X then it might survive. If they cannot (e.g. they make a loss on each one because of lots of expensive ram and low chip yields) then its dead. And it will probably be too close to the ti then so its dead again.
The 780ti might do this as well as the 290x.
The full-speed FP processors in the titan are what make/let it be expensive and thats on the hardware side - the cost reduced 780 chips will be much easier/cheaper to make (they are probably failed GK110 chips with more links burnt out to standardise the number of stream processors and reduce performance more in FP). The ti is probaby just not as disabled as the non-ti.
AMD didnt say killer but they can hope - but knowing that there will be a replacement sometime, perhaps the ti, perhaps not until maxwell.
The hardware is nothing Nvidia can do anything about - beyond some tweaked BIOS, but they can lower the price.
So I guess it comes down to if they can lower it enough to be the same/lower than that of the 290X then it might survive. If they cannot (e.g. they make a loss on each one because of lots of expensive ram and low chip yields) then its dead. And it will probably be too close to the ti then so its dead again.
The 780ti might do this as well as the 290x.
The full-speed FP processors in the titan are what make/let it be expensive and thats on the hardware side - the cost reduced 780 chips will be much easier/cheaper to make (they are probably failed GK110 chips with more links burnt out to standardise the number of stream processors and reduce performance more in FP). The ti is probaby just not as disabled as the non-ti.
AMD didnt say killer but they can hope - but knowing that there will be a replacement sometime, perhaps the ti, perhaps not until maxwell.
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Caporegime
Your a horrible man Gregster
I took what Gibbo said yesterday and dissected it with a fine tooth comb till only letters and numbers were left. Thos letters and numbers were a hidden message stating the 28th of October. It is simple deduction
He's being playing too, come launch day, which is not long now, but I'm not confirming whether it's hours, days or a week. But we will have an excellent review showing these bad boys off when NDA lifts which there is an NDA on.
Then look at the first and last numbers of his quoted post QUOTE=Gibbo;25155858
How everyone missed this is beyond me....
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If the release date is Friday, i suppose there is no chance we'll get them on Saturday?
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It's ridiculous, not AMD but peoples reactions. The cards are ready when they are ready, they get to shops when they get to shops. Just because a delivery made it to OCUK apparently(which could have been today) that doesn't mean they've arrived in Aus, or Belgium or anywhere else.
Don't forget that if they "released" it two weeks ago and it wasn't available till lets say the 25th, then you would all slaughter them for "paper launching" a product. If you wait and keep it relatively secret, you get slaughtered.
All the hype, all the over the top nonsense, all the missed dates is all the doing of people who have no patience. If AMD released 2 weeks ago, the leaks about an upcoming release would have gotten out 2 weeks earlier and you'd be saying exactly the same things, but 2 weeks ago.
If AMD launch today and it's not available till next week, not only will loads of people be for some reason angry because they aren't ready immediately, Nvidia will also drop the price of cards already on shelves to try and make it look like the AMD cards are more expensive by comparison.
My take is, I know a card is coming, I know what the card is, the features it brings and have a lets say 90% accurate indication of where it will perform, I don't know it's price, but can guess within £100. I actually prefer it when companies give you loads of information early(amd and Intel on cpu architecture for instance of upcoming cpu's) but I know for a fact this forum would whinge on for hours about paper launches if AMD did this for a GPU.
There is every chance if you choose saturday delivery
Caporegime
Originally Posted by Gibbo
He's being playing too, come launch day, which is not long now, but I'm not confirming whether it's hours, days or a week. But we will have an excellent review showing these bad boys off when NDA lifts which there is an NDA on.
I took what Gibbo said yesterday and dissected it with a fine tooth comb till only letters and numbers were left. Thos letters and numbers were a hidden message stating the 28th of October. It is simple deduction
Then look at the first and last numbers of his quoted post QUOTE=Gibbo;25155858
How everyone missed this is beyond me....
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