AMD lowers Radeon R9 290 and 290X pricing with 25 percent

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/06/2014 02:55 PM | source: | 25 comment(s)

With the release of the GeForce GTX 900 series Nvidia dropped a little bomb on pricing, especially with the GeForce GTX 970. This product is hurting AMD exactly in the R9 290 and 290X range. As such you will slowly start to notice a price drop for these two products, you can expect them dropping by a margin of 25%

The Radeon R9 290 is dropping slowly but steadily from 399 USD towards 299 USD, and the big daddy R9 290X was priced at 549 USD and now is shifting towards 399 USD.

By lowering the prices AMD hopes to make their product more attracktive in pricing and by doing so they will further push the competition. Obviously with the AMD cards you will still be entitled towards included free games.

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main_shoby
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#4931057 Posted on: 10/06/2014 03:06 PM

Good move but can they beat $330 deal on GTX970? of course 290x is faster than gtx970 in many ways but not by $70 difference margin, or is it?

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#4931064 Posted on: 10/06/2014 03:14 PM

Good move but can they beat $330 deal on GTX970? of course 290x is faster than gtx970 in many ways but not by $70 difference margin, or is it?

From what I can see, especially with a slight OC, the 970 is faster than a 290x.

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#4931066 Posted on: 10/06/2014 03:15 PM

Personnally even if the 290x was at 300$ I think i would go for a 970 at 350$, overclocked it's not to far away from the 290x, and I want HDMI 2.0, DSR looks like a cool feature, low latency VR is cool aswell (if it works correctly) and if a commercial version of the oculus dosen't take too long to come out... Good thermals.
Hope AMD comes out with a good GPU and not like in 12 months (which is what I fear)...

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#4931073 Posted on: 10/06/2014 03:23 PM

I'm looking at 290 (non-x) for only 290€, nvidia dont have nothing at that price range. Besides that 970 are not 330$, it goes high as 380€ here in Europe.

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#4931094 Posted on: 10/06/2014 03:57 PM

I'm looking at 290 (non-x) for only 290€, nvidia dont nothing at that price range. Besides that 970 are not 330$, it goes high as 380€ here in Europe.

http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog/Grafikkarten/NVIDIA-Grafikkarten/NVIDIA-GTX-970-Serie/Inno3D-GeForce-GTX-970-OC-HerculeZ-X2-4096-MB-GDDR5::29149.html

€329 for a gtx970 OC wich aint that bad.
i like amd but i would go for the 970 without a doubt

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