really nice FLIR results with this card i noticed, also the price drop will be good news for anyone going for upcoming Maxwell offerings.

Even the AMD shop hasn't picked it up yet...maybe TPU is pulling an S|A on sites that don't mention their sources.

Thats amazing price for such a monster. Reminds me of 7990 when price was low as 400$.

Well done AMD for finally selling a dual gpu card at a reasonable price. I hope that this insane price for dual/top-end GPUs experiment - particularly from Nvidia has failed.

Well done AMD for finally selling a dual gpu card at a reasonable price. I hope that this insane price for dual/top-end GPUs experiment - particularly from Nvidia has failed.

They probably would've sold it for this price much sooner if it weren't for bitcoin miners. Now that bitcoin is starting to lose interest to a lot of people, AMD is finally able to catch up in manufacturing so the prices can finally drop. Anyway, $1000 is still much more than I'm willing to spend. I'd rather buy 3 or 4 mid-range GPUs every other year and just barely keep up with games at 1080p. If I can crossfire/SLi those GPUs, or use them for something like physx, then that's even better (and what I'm currently doing). I'm a fan of re-purposing old hardware, and something as power hungry, hot, and huge as the R9 295x2 is not the kind of product that should be put in grandma's PC.

I'd actually be tempted to pick one of these up if the price dropped a little more.

They probably would've sold it for this price much sooner if it weren't for bitcoin miners. Now that bitcoin is starting to lose interest to a lot of people, AMD is finally able to catch up in manufacturing so the prices can finally drop. Anyway, $1000 is still much more than I'm willing to spend. I'd rather buy 3 or 4 mid-range GPUs every other year and just barely keep up with games at 1080p. If I can crossfire/SLi those GPUs, or use them for something like physx, then that's even better (and what I'm currently doing). I'm a fan of re-purposing old hardware, and something as power hungry, hot, and huge as the R9 295x2 is not the kind of product that should be put in grandma's PC.

Im not sure the price of the 295x2 was fixed in function of mining when you have Nvidia who annonce his dual gpu @ 2999$, and this gpu was his direct opponent, specially with a gpu who is not faster of the AMD one. Todays, 290x cost 500$... 1000$ is really not a bad price. Note, Nvidia have move too, offering a 1000 $ reduction on the TitanZ, but attention, only for OEM ( like Origin )... In reality if it is now official, Nvidia have nearly doit since months for get some OEM who integrate this gpu on their pre-build system. ( just for dont end with prebuild PC who cost more than a workstation system ) .

Im not sure the price of the 295x2 was fixed in function of mining when you have Nvidia who annonce his dual gpu @ 2999$, and this gpu was his direct opponent, specially with a gpu who is not faster of the AMD one.

Nvidia is always more expensive, and the Titan (and its variants) aren't really worth comparing. The titan is a workstation GPU without the Quadro name (and therefore, none of the micro-optimizations), which is also why it performs worse than the 780Ti in games. That being said, the 780Ti, which is far more popular among gamers, is better to compare. I have heard how many AMD GPUs sold out at their release dates yet their population in the gaming world hadn't increased much. The miners were to blame. In most cases, nvidia is better at GPGPU tasks, but almost everyone everywhere who knows anything about mining will recommend an AMD GPU - even mid-range models get more attention.

They probably would've sold it for this price much sooner if it weren't for bitcoin miners. Now that bitcoin is starting to lose interest to a lot of people, AMD is finally able to catch up in manufacturing so the prices can finally drop. Anyway, $1000 is still much more than I'm willing to spend. I'd rather buy 3 or 4 mid-range GPUs every other year and just barely keep up with games at 1080p. If I can crossfire/SLi those GPUs, or use them for something like physx, then that's even better (and what I'm currently doing). I'm a fan of re-purposing old hardware, and something as power hungry, hot, and huge as the R9 295x2 is not the kind of product that should be put in grandma's PC.

I doubt that because by the time the 295x2 was released back in April I think it was the 21st or somewhere around there and the 295x2 was brand spanking new and very few miners had this card. According to a few reviews I have read on Newegg but there might be more than this.

I doubt that because by the time the 295x2 was released back in April I think it was the 21st or somewhere around there and the 295x2 was brand spanking new and very few miners had this card. According to a few reviews I have read on Newegg but there might be more than this.

People who take mining SERIOUSLY and make a living off of it buy them in large quantities. For example: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/insane-crypto-currency-mining-rigs/ https://bitcointa.lk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F0R20fL1.jpg&hash=d44826e68e05d102a806d4eab2b68e01 Notice the "Radeon" labeling and red branding everywhere.

People who take mining SERIOUSLY and make a living off of it buy them in large quantities. For example: http://www.thinkcomputers.org/insane-crypto-currency-mining-rigs/ https://bitcointa.lk/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F0R20fL1.jpg&hash=d44826e68e05d102a806d4eab2b68e01 Notice the "Radeon" labeling everywhere.

Yes and I know this. I was just talking about the r9 295x2 in general.

Nvidia is always more expensive, and the Titan (and its variants) aren't really worth comparing. The titan is a workstation GPU without the Quadro name (and therefore, none of the micro-optimizations), which is also why it performs worse than the 780Ti in games. That being said, the 780Ti, which is far more popular among gamers, is better to compare. I have heard how many AMD GPUs sold out at their release dates yet their population in the gaming world hadn't increased much. The miners were to blame. In most cases, nvidia is better at GPGPU tasks, but almost everyone everywhere who knows anything about mining will recommend an AMD GPU - even mid-range models get more attention.

You want to buy a real workstation gpu for 3000$, you buy a W9100 Firepro : 16GB, 2.7Tflops DP ( more of any dual GPU of Nvidia ) . The 780TI is marginally faster than a 290x.. and the dual 780TI that is TitanZ slower of the 295x2 ... Actually, what save Nvidia on GPGPU task, is they have well implemented CUDA, but they are not faster of AMD on GPGPU tasks, in reality, they are well slower ... AMD is able to provide today 1:2 DP .. this mean for 4Tflops, they bring 2Tflops DP ( Not theoric ), for 8 they bring 4Tflops DP .. Nvidia is only able to provide 1: 3 Tflops.. and AMD have allways have faster SP performance ( tesla, Titan, are way slower in SP performance than AMD gpu's ) We will Not use OpenCL vs CUDA; because on Nvidia GPU's, OpenCL is really slow... but on software who support both, AMD are way faster of CUDA on GPGPU .. because they have just more power than any Nvidia gpu's and they dont have bad driver for OpenCL as Nvidia have ( And OpenCL have mature in between, or does i say, HSA too ) .. Its funny to see the difference in performance vs CUDA, in Photopshop, editing software video like Vegas, Premiere, or in Maya, or with Raytracing ... Ofc you have CUDA then, it is and was an extremely good API for GPGPU, it have bring a lot of simplicity of Use and is really well implemented, not that you cant do the same, but you know, when you have put millions of dollars for developp some system, you will not move tomorrow. But performance wise in GPGPU, i will be really cautionous. Its hard to beat a gpu of AMD today in this part.. Today, Nvidia have absolutely nothing to compare to the latest AMD GPU's in term of power in this range .. GM 200 will. but not before.. They have try to upgrade their Tesla range, and Kepler GK110 ( even the GK210, who is 2x core of GK 110 + some optimisation ) is not enough.. not in Raw power.

Nice price --- would it be possible to Tri-Crossfire this with my current GPU (R9 290 4GB OC), or do I have to have a R9 290x?

ocuk working on £599 per card. Thinking of selling my 780s for £250 each and then mildly upgrading for the extra vram as I'm running 4k.

I'm not saying the Titan makes a good workstation GPU, I'm just saying it is one without the Quadro label. Basically, it's the worst of both worlds - too expensive for a gaming GPU, no driver optimizations for workstations. I'm not favoring one brand over the other either - it is simply idiotic to buy a product just because you always supported the brand, just as it's equally as stupid to vote for a political party simply because you were raised to. Buy the product that suits your needs, not your status. Personally, I regularly use 3 computers at home and all of them use a different GPU brand. There's a lot more to performance than FLOPS. When you look at the hardware stats of 780Ti and a 290x, the 290x is a superior board overall: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-290X-vs-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti But just because you get a higher clock speed, more memory, better memory bandwidth, more render processors, etc, it doesn't mean you perform better in all applications, even if the drivers weren't a problem. That's simply impossible, and expecting that is a poor reason to buy a GPU. That being said, I don't favor either company, but as long as people do favor one over the other, software will be optimized for that brand and therefore run faster.

Awesome price for the fastest card in the world that, if only i had the PSU to power one, id be all over em 🙁 😀

if only single gpu flagship were like 200 bucks and the dual one 400 our gamming world would be perfect just dreaming 😀 ( and that's is realy free )

ocuk working on £599 per card. Thinking of selling my 780s for £250 each and then mildly upgrading for the extra vram as I'm running 4k.

That's a ridiculously good price for a card like this, especially considering we're still seeing 780ti's go for over the £500 mark regularly.

I'm not saying the Titan makes a good workstation GPU, I'm just saying it is one without the Quadro label. Basically, it's the worst of both worlds - too expensive for a gaming GPU, no driver optimizations for workstations. I'm not favoring one brand over the other either - it is simply idiotic to buy a product just because you always supported the brand, just as it's equally as stupid to vote for a political party simply because you were raised to. Buy the product that suits your needs, not your status. Personally, I regularly use 3 computers at home and all of them use a different GPU brand. There's a lot more to performance than FLOPS. When you look at the hardware stats of 780Ti and a 290x, the 290x is a superior board overall: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-R9-290X-vs-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti But just because you get a higher clock speed, more memory, better memory bandwidth, more render processors, etc, it doesn't mean you perform better in all applications, even if the drivers weren't a problem. That's simply impossible, and expecting that is a poor reason to buy a GPU. That being said, I don't favor either company, but as long as people do favor one over the other, software will be optimized for that brand and therefore run faster.

You say you are not favoring 1 brand or the other, but you seem to have a lot of bad things to say about 1 of the 2 brands that you are impartial about. gpu boss aint the best to look for comparing gpu`s some of those comparisons are silly. Personally I dont care which gpu is faster than the other. I buy based on my needs.

That's a ridiculously good price for a card like this, especially considering we're still seeing 780ti's go for over the £500 mark regularly.

OcUKs just dropped the prices on the 7 series as the 9s are incoming.

750Ti @ £95.99 760 @ £161.99 770 @ £199.99 780 @ £299.99 780Ti @ £419.99