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

[Deleted member 66701]

The 7970's also launched at $549 and the cheapest one was £455 at launch so to allow for the £ slipping against the dollar I'm going for a £479 UK price for the 290x.

 

[Gerard]

You forgot to factor in the now standard "early adaptor" tax.

 

[Andrew Moore]

You forgot to factor in the now standard "early adaptor" tax.

There is never any early adopters tax by the etailers as such, its always the board partners and then prices drop in time.

Anyway..


5am

Good

 

[uksoldierboy]

No margin and import duties and shipping to add to the cost of that? Lets assume blanket 10% margin and app $30 taxable per card duties... makes it Over £500 based on that logic.

Anyway, price is a mystery.

...So what your saying here is that the cards will be over £500 pretty much?

 

[benjii]

Haha, it's true.. Oh well the Australian's have it worse than us. Their prices are literally rip off shockingly bad.

With these price leaks and Gibbo saying people will be happy with price, my bet is on,

290X coming in from £450+. Crazy to think of £450 being a good price lol.

I would much prefer £300 - £350

The last card I bought on release in that price range was the X800 XT. Good times.

 

[kissenger]

Good luck to anyone willing to pay £500 for a GPU. If you enjoy it then go for it, I suppose.

But IMO these prices are crazy when you can buy an entire PS4 for £350. I know it's not as powerful but in bang for buck terms it's lightyears ahead.

 

[johny dolan]

A top USA retailer leaked pricing of its reference design Radeon R9 290X graphics cards

US $729.99 (excl. taxes).

 

[Suarez7]

Is buying a ferrari crazy when you can get a banged up ford escort that will take you anywhere in the same time if you follow the speed limits?

 

[johny dolan]

Cant pull pussy in a banged up Escort tho.

 

[ozzaman]

Cant pull pussy in a banged up Escort tho.

The truth shall set you free

 

[Frenzy]

Depends on the cat.

 

[Suarez7]

Cant pull pussy in a banged up Escort tho.

Can't pull off awesome headshots with a console controller either

 

[krooton]

The last card I bought on release in that price range was the X800 XT. Good times.

2900XT for me, only release purchase I ever made, and also the worst graphic purchase I ever made.

 

[old gamer]

Ive bought on release day before only to see prices drop quite a bit after a few months, not going to have my pants pulled down again thank you very much

 

[Boomstick777]

^^ Even at launch if you look around enough there is always a decent price to be found. I got my 780 for £450 when most were paying £550.

The biggest regret of mine was the Titan, buyers remorse was strong with that one..

 

[Suarez7]

Ive bought on release day before only to see prices drop quite a bit after a few months, not going to have my pants pulled down again thank you very much

Not even by a girl?

 

[TheRealDeal]

Good luck to anyone willing to pay £500 for a GPU. If you enjoy it then go for it, I suppose.

But IMO these prices are crazy when you can buy an entire PS4 for £350. I know it's not as powerful but in bang for buck terms it's lightyears ahead.

I agree to a certain point. I am pretty sure though that sony will make a loss on each ps4 sold just as they did with the ps3. Amd and Nvidia need to make a profit on there gpu's but sony make there real profits from the games and peripheral's sold for there system.

 

[old gamer]

Not even by a girl?

well mabe

 

[VincentHanna]

I agree to a certain point. I am pretty sure though that sony will make a loss on each ps4 sold just as they did with the ps3. Amd and Nvidia need to make a profit on there gpu's but sony make there real profits from the games and peripheral's sold for there system.

They are making a loss, but expect to be in profit as soon as people buy PS+

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...-recoup-playstation-4-hardware-loss-at-launch

 

[JBod]

You forgot to factor in the now standard "early adaptor" tax.

No no, that is called the Gibbo tax.