7990 or R290X?

290 will be £349 at launch, with prices doing to around £300 around Xmas. They will only come with terrible reference cooler at launch though. The 7990 will eat a 290x alive in bf4, it'll run a fair bit faster.

Btw, at that price you can't really say no to a 7990. It'll run hot and loud though.

 

Are AMD making profit on those 7990s anymore?

 

Yeah i know a guy who bought a 7990 the other day. Its a very good deal. Only thing you need to be concerned about is if you come to sell the 7990 then you may get couple of hundred pound if your lucky.

 

Isn't that the same as any GPU anyones ever bought? I don't think I have EVER sold an old card anyway. They are all just sitting in press somewhere!
The current 5970 cost me €600 at the time and what is that worth now? nothing? I never worry or care about resale value. And anyway at that price if I got £200 in a year or two it would only cost me £180 about!

 

Less than 170£ on European Ebay auctions.

 

Meh, it's like me buying a second 7950 for £135. And when I go to sell them both end of next year, I'll be happy to get 80 quid for each. Just the way it goes.

 

Out of all computer hardware, I find GPU's fall quickest in price

 

Nah u won't sell them in a year because there'll be nothing worth upgrading to. By that time AMD or NV might produce a GPU that matches 79xx CF performance, but they won't beat it.

You should be good for 2 more years imho.....remember the 59xx what a monster that was? lol

 

actually, the only way I see myself upgrading anytime soon is if I don't like crossfire. If the support is fine and temps/noise in check, I'll be happy with the performance for ages, you're right, because it simply is a killer performer, I mean 7950 crossfire kills a 290x and I only game at 1080p atm so yeah, I should be fine for a couple of years. Happy with that, really.

 

And for how much more? £135 eclap man.

 

Well yeah sometimes it is and sometimes it aint. My card came out a good while before the 7990 and they both cost the same at time of release. My card still retails for £750+ Brand new and it still sells for a decent price second hand. Some places are even selling it for over £800 like Scan yet its been out for around 18 months.

In other words some cards hold there value better over other cards even though they could be classed as equal to each other.

 

In other words too, the 690 is slower than the 7990 but NV wont drop its price.

 

R9 290X for sure. MSI AMD Radeon Twin Frozr and XFX Looks awesome.
Benchmarks on that R9 290X.

 

That's prob how I would've put it. lol

 

Considering the 690 is basically EOL now why bother dropping the price they sold a ton at MSRP.

 

Yes you could put it that way although it took AMD an eternity to release a card of similar or better performance.At the time of release AMD had nothing to even come close to the 690 unless you had 2x7970's.

Not impressed tbh, Nvidia dont need to drop there price as people still buy them unlike the 7990 which has had a massive price decrease because nobody is buying them. Drivers are preferable on 690 compared to 7990 for me. I would never buy an AMD card but thats just me. Also when i sell my card for a good price i can put the money to a couple of highend Maxwell cards to drive this 120hz monitor to a constant 120hz

 

Weird, over at TPU there's another thread exactly the same as this only most their members chose 290x. They didn't give a reason either.

 

Cause 290x is better ofc.

 

The 7990 is both cheaper and faster than a 290x. So how is the 290x better?

 

whole CF vs single card debate

no game profile for CF means worst than 290x performance, 7990 be running single GPU off the card

when CF works well it beats 290x by fair margin