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AMD Radeon R9 290 Launch Delayed by a week
Yesterday AMD informed its partners and the press that the AMD Radeon R9 290 non X model of the card will be delayed and it is now scheduled to be released somewhere next week. The reason is that Nvidia lowered its prices massively on the 770 and 780. AMD thinks that with a new driver they can tweak the 290 card a little more.
The new driver should make the card more competitive with the GeForce GTX 780 and it would even be able to beat a Titan in UHD. We'll have to wait and see what is gonna happen.
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#4688301 Posted on: 10/30/2013 02:06 PM
Hopefully AMD didn't do this because it was distracted by the 780ti. Its flagship card is the 290x, and the 290 should be priced to sit nicely between the $300 280x and $550 290x. Pricing to beat Nvidia at every segment of the market is AMD's forte, not skirt chasing.
So I would like to see it meet or beat the stock 780 for $400-$450. I find Nvidia puzzling with trying to cannibalize the Titan by making a Ti version of a lower tier GK110. Seems they gave up on the $1000 Titan, unless the 780ti actually turns out to be an improved refresh of Titan.
Hopefully AMD didn't do this because it was distracted by the 780ti. Its flagship card is the 290x, and the 290 should be priced to sit nicely between the $300 280x and $550 290x. Pricing to beat Nvidia at every segment of the market is AMD's forte, not skirt chasing.
So I would like to see it meet or beat the stock 780 for $400-$450. I find Nvidia puzzling with trying to cannibalize the Titan by making a Ti version of a lower tier GK110. Seems they gave up on the $1000 Titan, unless the 780ti actually turns out to be an improved refresh of Titan.
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#4688302 Posted on: 10/30/2013 02:07 PM
Yeah, according to videocard z, the new driver will bring a significant performance increase.
Yeah, according to videocard z, the new driver will bring a significant performance increase.
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#4688774 Posted on: 10/30/2013 10:04 PM
Hopefully custom boards with better cooling solutions follow soon.
Hopefully custom boards with better cooling solutions follow soon.
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#4688814 Posted on: 10/30/2013 10:38 PM
what
Hopefully AMD didn't do this because it was distracted by the 780ti. Its flagship card is the 290x, and the 290 should be priced to sit nicely between the $300 280x and $550 290x. Pricing to beat Nvidia at every segment of the market is AMD's forte, not skirt chasing.
So I would like to see it meet or beat the stock 780 for $400-$450. I find Nvidia puzzling with trying to cannibalize the Titan by making a Ti version of a lower tier GK110. Seems they gave up on the $1000 Titan, unless the 780ti actually turns out to be an improved refresh of Titan.
Nvidia can't even keep up with production of Titans to meet the demand for it. What world are you actually living in? How are sales being cannablized on a card they can't keep on the shelves? If anything it would eat into 780 sales. Lower tier GK110? What, like the current cards compared to prior gen Tesla GK110s?
Titans are currently one of, if not the best option for many aspects of video production/editing/content creation and utterly destroy the K5000, an inferior card that costs almost twice the price.
Last I checked 780ti specs had yet to be annoucned and I'd imagine it's just going to be a small clock boost over the 780SC maybe.
All this means is that AMD, desperate for a slice of marketshare, tried to launch an unfinished product (which was probably not going to live up to the performance they claimed once actual retail cards were in the wild en masse). Everyone and their non tech-savy mother knew Nvidia would drop pricing within a week tops of the AMD announcement -- something you think that at least one person at AMD would have anticipated.
INB4 the fanboy/new poster flames.
what
Hopefully AMD didn't do this because it was distracted by the 780ti. Its flagship card is the 290x, and the 290 should be priced to sit nicely between the $300 280x and $550 290x. Pricing to beat Nvidia at every segment of the market is AMD's forte, not skirt chasing.
So I would like to see it meet or beat the stock 780 for $400-$450. I find Nvidia puzzling with trying to cannibalize the Titan by making a Ti version of a lower tier GK110. Seems they gave up on the $1000 Titan, unless the 780ti actually turns out to be an improved refresh of Titan.
Nvidia can't even keep up with production of Titans to meet the demand for it. What world are you actually living in? How are sales being cannablized on a card they can't keep on the shelves? If anything it would eat into 780 sales. Lower tier GK110? What, like the current cards compared to prior gen Tesla GK110s?
Titans are currently one of, if not the best option for many aspects of video production/editing/content creation and utterly destroy the K5000, an inferior card that costs almost twice the price.
Last I checked 780ti specs had yet to be annoucned and I'd imagine it's just going to be a small clock boost over the 780SC maybe.
All this means is that AMD, desperate for a slice of marketshare, tried to launch an unfinished product (which was probably not going to live up to the performance they claimed once actual retail cards were in the wild en masse). Everyone and their non tech-savy mother knew Nvidia would drop pricing within a week tops of the AMD announcement -- something you think that at least one person at AMD would have anticipated.
INB4 the fanboy/new poster flames.
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AMD 290/X cards.... Catered for the 5-10 people that own UHD monitors!
On a serious note, no worries. The 290 isn't bringing something we haven't seen already, so I understand their "tweaking" delay for competitiveness.
1 week delay for a more productive/faster product its not that bad. But they lose sales as it is already so its not for the better for them.