Tuesday, September 2nd 2014
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 to Get Promotional Price, Open to All
AMD announced a series of retailer-specific promotions for its flagship Radeon R9 295X2 dual-GPU graphics card. The card, which launched at US $1,499, will be available for as low as $999, as part of retailer promotions. End users (you), and not just OEMs, will be able to buy the card at the three-figure price. The card will ship with its usual Radeon Rewards package, giving you access to over a dozen free games. Based on a pair of 28 nm "Hawaii" GPUs, the Radeon R9 295X2 features a total of 5,760 Graphics CoreNext 1.1 stream processors, 352 TMUs, and 128 ROPs, split between its two GPUs, and 8 GB of memory across its two 512-bit wide GDDR5 memory interfaces.
14 Comments on AMD Radeon R9 295X2 to Get Promotional Price, Open to All
I also hope they will bring other goodies, some sort of technological advancement that makes you want to buy something new gen.
For example, back in HD6000 days, i picked higher end HD6950 just because it also had EQ FSAA (where 4x EQ was almost as good as normal 8x FSAA) where HD6800 series didn't have this. Might switch to NVIDIA camp this time around, who knows.
It'll probably be:
980/970 is catching up to Hawaii (in terms of cost)
Tonga is catching up to GK104
There is a 500+mm chip in the works, I would assume coming before end of year. The 350mm chip is Tonga.
After that, at some point, is big Maxwell.
cdn.videocardz.com/1/2014/07/Synapse-Design-500mm-AMD-GPU.jpg
Like was said...this is clearing stock before launch of that chip.
Edit: the Gigabyte too...man I should've waited lol.