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AMD launches $999 Radeon R9 295X2 promo
It's a pretty good price of you ask me. AMD offers a Radeon R9 295X2 promotion and is selling this dual-gpu card for $999,. That saves 33.3% off the card from its original 1,499 launch price.
TPU noted this promotion, I haven't heard AMD themselves about it though. Just checking New-egg and some EU price watch engines shows normal pricing though.
So it is unknown when and where this promotion will be available. The card will ship with its usual Radeon Rewards package, giving you access to free games.
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#4905580 Posted on: 09/03/2014 11:51 PM
Great to see price drops like this. I'm seriously tempted by the 295X2 at £599 to be honest, that's pretty much impossible to beat from a performance perspective for the price.
OcUKs just dropped the prices on the 7 series as the 9s are incoming.
Great to see price drops like this. I'm seriously tempted by the 295X2 at £599 to be honest, that's pretty much impossible to beat from a performance perspective for the price.
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#4906239 Posted on: 09/04/2014 09:28 PM
Theres going to be a hundred going tomorrow, for less than the price of 2x 290Xs on OcUK tomorrow.
Theres going to be a hundred going tomorrow, for less than the price of 2x 290Xs on OcUK tomorrow.
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#4906255 Posted on: 09/04/2014 10:01 PM
Nice i see one on newegg in canada for 1000$ which actually makes it cheaper then the US after converting surprisingly.
Nice i see one on newegg in canada for 1000$ which actually makes it cheaper then the US after converting surprisingly.
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#4906277 Posted on: 09/04/2014 10:19 PM
€770 on Newegg for NL...it's a bit weird to see such a low price...
edit: aah I checked one and it's sold out lol
€770 on Newegg for NL...it's a bit weird to see such a low price...
edit: aah I checked one and it's sold out lol
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Nvidia has an all-around better product, particularly at the release date thanks to their drivers. However, I'm not a fan of their ego, I don't like how proprietary they are, their price point is high, and they have deliberate lack of contribution toward the evolution of PCs as a whole (meaning, they keep to themselves and don't tend aid in the development of non-nvidia technologies).
AMD's hardware tends to be better and I like their price point, but their drivers are consistently bad in several ways. It is a problem when their drivers are so bad they compensate for them by adding more transistors and increasing the clocks. If they got the drivers done right at the release date of their products, they would score a lot higher in benchmarks, users would encounter less errors, and they wouldn't need to make a GPU that reaches 95 degrees. I also don't like how quickly AMD deems a product as legacy.
Both companies are crap in their own way and it takes so little for them to be much more liked. The way I see it, if you make frequent upgrades, nvidia is the better choice. If you're on a budget and only upgrade every few years, AMD is the better choice (because of price, and because the drivers eventually catch up). That being said, my main rig is AMD.
Anyway if you read my post, I referenced gpuboss to point out explicitly that the numbers of the hardware don't really matter .