AMD Radeon R9 290 Launch Delayed by a week

AMD 290/X cards.... Catered for the 5-10 people that own UHD monitors! :thumbup:

On a serious note, no worries. The 290 isn't bringing something we haven't seen already, so I understand their "tweaking" delay for competitiveness.

1 week delay for a more productive/faster product its not that bad. But they lose sales as it is already so its not for the better for them.

 

Hopefully AMD didn't do this because it was distracted by the 780ti. Its flagship card is the 290x, and the 290 should be priced to sit nicely between the $300 280x and $550 290x. Pricing to beat Nvidia at every segment of the market is AMD's forte, not skirt chasing.

So I would like to see it meet or beat the stock 780 for $400-$450. I find Nvidia puzzling with trying to cannibalize the Titan by making a Ti version of a lower tier GK110. Seems they gave up on the $1000 Titan, unless the 780ti actually turns out to be an improved refresh of Titan.

 

Yeah, according to videocard z, the new driver will bring a significant performance increase.

 

Hopefully custom boards with better cooling solutions follow soon.

 

what

Nvidia can't even keep up with production of Titans to meet the demand for it. What world are you actually living in? How are sales being cannablized on a card they can't keep on the shelves? If anything it would eat into 780 sales. Lower tier GK110? What, like the current cards compared to prior gen Tesla GK110s?

Titans are currently one of, if not the best option for many aspects of video production/editing/content creation and utterly destroy the K5000, an inferior card that costs almost twice the price.

Last I checked 780ti specs had yet to be annoucned and I'd imagine it's just going to be a small clock boost over the 780SC maybe.

All this means is that AMD, desperate for a slice of marketshare, tried to launch an unfinished product (which was probably not going to live up to the performance they claimed once actual retail cards were in the wild en masse). Everyone and their non tech-savy mother knew Nvidia would drop pricing within a week tops of the AMD announcement -- something you think that at least one person at AMD would have anticipated.

INB4 the fanboy/new poster flames.

 

780Ti specs are in here :- http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=382844&page=5 , and welcome to Guru

 

Specs... are.... where?

I see an article linked which explicitly says no details have been released and 5 pages of fluff.

The leaked/rumored specs you linked to are... puzzling at best.

With a pactically un-nerfed GK110 I can't see where a Titan fits in their product offering. Unless that is the intent, and to drive content creators back to Quadro models by only offering high VRAM options on those cards and no longer GTX, as these higher VRAM cards are in huge huge demand right now with 4k being the latest flavor of the month.

If they're offering a full blown GK110 for 700$ I think pricing is the last thing AMD should be worried about.

I'll hold my conclusion though until all specs are official and both cards have been in the wild for a couple weeks.

 

Let's see...

Poor nVidia fans trying to play AMD's strengths as weaknesses. I feel sorry for your logic, you're saying that AMD's new card is capable of doing incredible feats of graphics processing, better than nVidia can and for much less, but it's useless because nobody has a 4k monitor (because they are expensive?).

Yet you're willing to spend $1,000 dollars on an overpriced Titan card, nVidia just openly ripping you off and you act like you're ok with that. ITS AN ENTHUSIAST GAMING CARD! It's not designed for video production, quit trying to make up excuses for the nVidia TITANIC.

 

I could care less which card is faster nvidia or amd. people that care tend to be "fans" of one of those 2 company`s.

 

Specs of the 780 Ti are confirmed now, videocard z has all the info, it is indeed a full blown GK110.

 

Ok is it just me or have we had a glut of fanboys since just before the 290x release just joining the site to blast off Nvidia is $hit or AMD is $hit and then disappear after a few posts? most dont even care to fill out proper specs or have completely imbalanced specs.

Corporate paid dogs.

 

who do you mean? names pls

 

Look at fight between
huilun02 (red fan [Join Date 10-29-2013]) and
bewsh(green fan [Join Date 10-31-2013])

 

exactly, this kinda thing

 

I haven't noticed them? Oh well.

 

thats because youre not keeping tabs on the bigger conspiracy lol

 

WOW! When did I say all that you say that I said? Do you mind quoting me please to refresh my memory?

Will be here waiting... Take your time too.. Its gonna take you a while... Like, forever... :stewpid:

Btw, Titan? Titanic? video production? 4K expensive? Acting? Making excuse? Me willing to buy a Titan?? Wow! Just wow! This guy is not just all over the place, he's wiping it too at the same time. Go Jules, go Jules! I'm with you man! Jules FTW!

lol! I barely afforded a 500euro Palit 780 Jetstream in the EU which I leave.

 

Indeed lol :infinity:

 

What are you smoking. He doesnt have a titan and youre blabbing on about a load of sh1t. btw 290x isnt faster than the titan so what are you going on about