But as you said, Newegg isn't the best price examples.
yep... yet the cheaper 780 is 100chf more than the cheaper 290 where i am, and even worse it's on level of the cheapest 290X, we can find 2nd hand with sometime near fulll warranty 290 for 250chf and less whereas 780 are most of the time just 5% cheaper than retail, or even higher price because the seller take buyers for fools (and sometime it works xD)
and i see the same ratio on nearly all etailer listing i see "around the world" (with some good and surprising exceptions)
The problem is, it's sometimes hard to tell whether it's mostly game coding, endorsement favoring, bad drivers, drivers that are written more for newer models than older models, etc. The latter is what I experienced a lot with my last ATI/AMD cards, then they up and relegated them to Legacy support. Nvidia's drivers in the past have always worked longer for older models, and it's looking like more of the same now maybe.
well the bigger model are supported long enough, although my 3650 or 4870 aren't supported anymore my LP 5450 and R7-240(wait wrong example
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on game coding i agree, the 580's i had (4 in total 1 ref zotac 2 matrix asus 1 ref evga) did better in 1 game for me but it was a known "to run better with nVidia" mmo
One of the things I'm waiting to find out is if Nvidia will increase the VRAM on high end Maxwells. I'd like to see 4GB.
agreed, i took a 290 because of that and also because 4gb and more, models from nV are out of budget, tho this year Maxwells will be the "smalls" one the big one is for 2015 if the news are correct.
And when overclocking, is there a noticeable difference with the heat/noise or with the power consumption? I'm kinda worried on this point.
heat/noise mostly but with custom cooler it's a minor problem, power consumption well it goes along but it's also minor, regular user don't need to worry about OC in the end a good factory OC with custom design would suffice for any actual and upcoming game (in case of a 780/290 and above) specially for 1080P and still enough for 1440/1600P.
each generation, some cards stand out as being great value for money, or great performance per watt - use THOSE criteria to choose a card, based on whats out at the time of purchase.
^this, 8800GT,4650,260,7950 where good example and now the 290
What I wanted to say was a gtx 770 with a high base clock and a excellent cooler and more Vram vs a r9 290 decent stock speed and cooler. But anyways it doesn't matter since you answered my question.
