AMD lowers Radeon R9 290 and 290X pricing with 25 percent
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main_shoby
Good move but can they beat $330 deal on GTX970? of course 290x is faster than gtx970 in many ways but not by $70 difference margin, or is it?
southamptonfc
From what I can see, especially with a slight OC, the 970 is faster than a 290x.
WeSbO
Personnally even if the 290x was at 300$ I think i would go for a 970 at 350$, overclocked it's not to far away from the 290x, and I want HDMI 2.0, DSR looks like a cool feature, low latency VR is cool aswell (if it works correctly) and if a commercial version of the oculus dosen't take too long to come out... Good thermals.
Hope AMD comes out with a good GPU and not like in 12 months (which is what I fear)...
Undying
I'm looking at 290 (non-x) for only 290€, nvidia dont have nothing at that price range. Besides that 970 are not 330$, it goes high as 380€ here in Europe.
Trolle
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
WeSbO
There are a couple of 970's at 325 - 330 € in France, the Gigabyte G1 is 360€. And the cheapest 290 (non x) I can find in France is 330 €, I must be in the bad part of europe, although the prices are even higher in the UK
Ryu5uzaku
I could possibly get second 290x now. Maybe
HunnoPT
I own myself a Sapphire tri-x OC r9 290 4gb, last week it was 415€ in Portugal(were i live)
Now its 387€. The cheapest gtx970 here is 368€. By the difference on HDMI 2.0+DSR+ -100watts/less heat The gtx970 is by far the best buy of this two.
Anyone even thinking about getting one of these new, then go for 970. If you can get 290 in 2nd hand, by something like 250€ then 290 is ofc the best buy as its only 8% inferior then 970 but at a cost of 100w+ .
Now ofc AMD will release 2 new gpus, a bit better then 970 and 980 for a few coin less as allways does. So if you wanna keep AMD just wait a little longer , it will for sure pay off as AMD allways have better deals in price/performance 🤓
Rich_Guy
Id only buy one for Xfire, for a single card upgrade, id just go 970/980.
Fender178
I saw this on Newegg yesterday and for my card Newegg lowered it by over $100 bucks. Maybe if I can get my card working a 2nd r9 290 might be in the books for me if my PSU can support 2 r9 290s and I think that it can since there is a fellow member who owns 2 r9 290Xs and is using a an 850W PSU.
Rich_Guy
Great PSU that Corsair (got one myself), id say it could handle 2x.
Elder III
I'm hoping to pick up a second R9 290 before the end of the year, already ordered a 1000watt PSU for it (yes I know that's overkill but it was a nice sale). I'm a little tempted to sell my current R9 290 and go Tri-SLI 970s, but I think my motherboard would choke out at 8x8x4... not a real need for 3 GPUs either. 🤓
Deathchild
Sure it can Fender.
-Tj-
But that cpu won't that much ;D
Rich_Guy
Nope 🙁 😀
somemadcaaant
Join the club haha
tsunami231
AMD who are they again? they make sound cards yes?
Joke aside this great for people that are in the AMD camp.
Loophole35
I think they make space heaters.
Joking a side this is all that AMD can do untill they can release the pirate islands.
Rich_Guy
Just noticed that today here in the UK, the 970/980s have gone up.
Black_ice_Spain
Everywhere in Europe, but I think they are playing with us, I mean local sellers.
