Sunday, September 14th 2014
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Radeon R9 290X Sees Price Cuts
AMD is apparently working with its add-in board manufacturers and retailers to bring down prices of its flagship single-GPU graphics card, the Radeon R9 290X. The card can now be had for as low as $449, non-reference design, factory-overclocked cards starting at a $50 premium. Prices could settle down somewhere between $450 and $500. This closely follows AMD's move to bring down price of its dual-GPU flagship Radeon R9 295X2 by a whopping 34 percent, down to $999, offering performance competitive to the $2999 GeForce GTX TITAN-Z. NVIDIA is preparing two new graphics cards competitive in performance to the Radeon R9 290 series, the GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980. The two are based on the company's new 28 nm "GM204" silicon, implementing the "Maxwell" GPU architecture.
36 Comments on Radeon R9 290X Sees Price Cuts
well that's a good news if i want to double my 290 or take a 295X2 to replace it (and if i did read correctly the future 970 will be on par with a 290 since it's said to be between a 780 and a 780Ti, well the 290X also is to between the 780 and 780Ti, since it's 780<290<290X<780Ti most of the time)
The leaks of the GTX 970/980 must be pretty impressive for AMD to cut its prices even before the cards' official releases.
So, now the R9 290X is still some 100% more expensive.
Good to see these parts dropping prices, just means more people can get a top dog GPU.
I doubt AMD is shaking I their boots.
yup, it might turn to be true that that crap will never get desired price but nvidia will lose for one very simple reason, they will have to bring that kind of performance to lower market segments sooner or later.
16 nm process and here we go, that performance will be available perhaps even for 500-600. :D
I know it's required that all Nvidia articles contain a minimum 10% Titan-Z content, but when was the law extended to AMD articles? :eek:
Anyhow, price cuts are always welcome (excepting by company financial officers and shareholders), but as per usual they won't apply to my local distribution area thanks to most of the AMD AIB's being MIA.
and the 290x start at 400€ +/-
The problem here is that MSI have basically withdrawn from the market as have HIS. VisionTek and Diamond aren't sold here, and PowerColor and XFX have basically a non-existent presence - which pretty much leaves Asus and Gigabyte (who also market Nvidia) and Sapphire, while Nvidia vendors here include Palit, Galaxy (and their KFA2 brand), as well as EVGA and Zotac - all in volume. Basically no real competition from AMD vendors, and the cards that do arrive here are reference SKUs (often first revisions pulled from larger markets) and not overly attractive to customers.
The other problem is that many AMD partners have a strict warranty policy, so importing a card voids the warranty once out of its distribution area. No such problem with many Nvidia partners - EVGA (warranty based solely on serial), PNY, Gainward/Palit etc.