Sunday, October 27th 2013
Radeon R9 290 Probable Pricing Surfaces
If at $549.99, AMD's Radeon R9 290X trumps the $650 GeForce GTX 780, and $1000 GeForce GTX TITAN, the Radeon R9 290 (non-X) could make NVIDIA's offerings look even worse. AMD could give the R9 290 a starting price of $449.99, $100 cheaper than the R9 290X. All you stand to lose between the two are 256 stream processors, 16 TMUs, and a slightly lower GPU clock speed, of 946 MHz, according to leaked specifications. Late last week, a handful benchmarks of the R9 290 were leaked to the web, which showed the chip to be highly competitive, and sometimes even faster, than the GTX 780, at $200 lower the price. Arabic publication DarkLord Tech posted a handful more benchmark results to show just that.
Source:
WCCFTech
12 Comments on Radeon R9 290 Probable Pricing Surfaces
Wowow, I'm seriously considering this 290. I was thinking about the 280x but I might try and stretch for a 290.
www.fudzilla.com/home/item/32952-amd-working-on-r9-280x-with-tahiti-xtl-gpu
:) I'll have my eye on this, as well as custom R9 290s and GTX 780 price reduction. If nothing interesting or worthy of my hard earned money comes along in the next spring, might as well wait for 20nm... coupling that with the advent of UHD gaming and the new generation of consoles... one might just hope for 2x performance over this generation (a-la GTX 7900 to GTX 8800).
Also, what do you guys think, you think we'll see something on 20nm BEFORE the next generation? Like what HD 4770 did awhile back, for example...