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Guru3D.com » News » Nvidia users walk to AMD R9 290X - offered at 279 USD Now !

Nvidia users walk to AMD R9 290X - offered at 279 USD Now !

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/30/2015 10:41 AM | source: | 222 comment(s)
Nvidia users walk to AMD R9 290X - offered at 279 USD Now !

Interesting, here in the EU the price change is not in effect when I checked yesterday and this morning, but over in the USA there are clear signs of a price drop for the Radeon R9 290X. If you look at NewEgg you'll notice them for 279 USD!

And these are not reference cards either, proper factory overclocked products with food cooling like TwinFroz, Windforce and so on. If you look at NewEgg you'll notice for example the Radeon R9 290X GAMING 4GB for 299 USD and GIGABYTE WindForce GV-R929XOC-4GD Radeon R9 290X 4GB for as low as 279 USD ! The prices are after 20 USD rebate, but there is something going on alright.

With such prices and cooler admittedly, that is pretty terrific deal !

With this week GeForce GTX 970 debacle AMD's marketing machine also woke up, you can expect a new 'The Fixer' video today and we have seen some stings from AMD staff stating "with us 4GB really is 4GB".



Nvidia users walk to AMD R9 290X - offered at 279 USD Now ! Nvidia users walk to AMD R9 290X - offered at 279 USD Now ! Nvidia users walk to AMD R9 290X - offered at 279 USD Now !




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moab600
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#5003919 Posted on: 01/30/2015 10:15 AM
If i had 970 i would not exchange it for any 290X, but being lied to would upset me and super alert me in the future.

With that being said, performance of 970 is still a stealer, without those rare times when it crosses 3.5GB mark, however one way nvidia could compensate for that is lower 970 prices and 980 as well, the REAL 4GB card.

Ryu5uzaku
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#5003927 Posted on: 01/30/2015 10:31 AM
Now people talking about heat with 290x it is really only problem with reference. My friends 290x with accelero never goes beyond 66. And my 290x gaming never goes beyond 75 I think that is pretty good.

Aoyagi
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#5003933 Posted on: 01/30/2015 10:49 AM
I wouldn't exchange it mainly because of the heat and power consumption differences.


Yeah, those ~60 watts under heavy load and ~20 watts in idle totally make a huge difference. :rolleyes:

BrainDedd
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#5003935 Posted on: 01/30/2015 10:49 AM
If anyone wants to give me their GTX970 I won't argue :)

fantaskarsef
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#5003938 Posted on: 01/30/2015 10:51 AM
I wouldn't exchange it mainly because of the heat and power consumption differences.


Yeah, those ~60 watts under heavy load and ~20 watts in idle totally make a huge difference. :rolleyes:


Just because it's non of your topics it doesn't mean it's not somebody else's interest :rolleyes:

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