Tuesday, October 7th 2014
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AMD Cuts Prices of R9 290 Series and R9 280 Series Even Further
AMD cut prices of its Radeon R9 290 series and R9 280 series graphics cards further down from last month's price-cuts. The cuts see the company's flagship single-GPU product, the Radeon R9 290X, drop from $449, down to $399, an $150 overall drop, from its launch price of $549. The Radeon R9 290, on the other hand, has its price cut to $299, from its launch price of $399. The drop in price of the R9 290 is squeezing AMD's sub-$300 lineup like never before. The R9 280X is down to $270, just $30 less than the R9 290. The R9 285, which launched barely two months ago, has its price squeezed to $229, just $10 more than NVIDIA's GTX 760. If you're in the market for a graphics card with about $250 in hand, you're now open to a ton of options, including ramen for a week, in exchange for the $329 GeForce GTX 970.
Source:
Tweaktown
140 Comments on AMD Cuts Prices of R9 290 Series and R9 280 Series Even Further
But even at these price cuts, I'd take a GTX 970 over an R9 290 for the few dollars more.
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Don't try to sugarcoat it - even if the R9 290X would magically cost 300$, most smart users will add the 30$ needed to get a dramatically more efficient product.
There's pretty much nothing AMD can do right now to beat the viability of a GTX 970 purchase. That's a simple fact.
Soon, a small brother to the GTX 970 will arrive and do the same thing for the whole mid-range segment.
People who insist on getting a radeon card might have to wait for another round of new cards.
@Dj-ElectriC
I wish i could get a GTX 970 for 330 USD. Cheapest you can get here in EU are basically 400 USD...
Where i live, the cheapest GTX 970 cost 450$
Nothing to back me up on this statement, cause revealing it would mean her loosing her job, but pretty sure AMD is not launching this year.
If there was not these two companies, but only one:
1) if there would be only AMD, then it would still hold 550$ price tag to 290x and probably rebrand it for anoter year for the same price or boost some clock and add price.
2) if there would be only nVidia, then it gtx 970 would be called something like "GTX 980ti" and would cost 600$+ and GTX 980 would be called some kind of Titan and would cost 1000+$ and if there would be GTX 980 TI then it would be called "TITAN MEGATRON ZZZ" (or whatever) and on its price tag would be writen: "one human kidney or your daughters virginity"
I find it very funny how everyone goes insane when Amd does succeed/Falter and when they do price cuts... Yet when Nvidia falters or does price cuts no one harps on them.