amd 280 tahiti coming

Selling 280x chips as fast as you can make them probably caused a glut of 280 parts.

At any rate the price of used 7950 cards seem to be going down slowly, so these 280 cards might just be a little over msrp.
 
PersonalJ said:
With a MSRP of $250 it will probably sell for $450 given current pricing...
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jbltecnicspro said:
An overpriced one, yes. $250 for a card that's now over two-years-old... But hey - thanks to mining, it'll be even higher.
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... which is honestly disappointing because $250 is the current pricing for most R9 270X cards.

The R9 280X is already near $500 for most models, thus the R9 280 should come in between $400 to $450. :(
 
I'm so glad I splurged and bought crossfire 290's when they first hit the streets (reference models)

$399 free shipping no taxes each :)

Kinda funny looking back, all the people who were waiting for the non reference models to pop up... tee hee.
 
collegeboy69us said:
I'm so glad I splurged and bought crossfire 290's when they first hit the streets (reference models)

$399 free shipping no taxes each :)

Kinda funny looking back, all the people who were waiting for the non reference models to pop up... tee hee.
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Why do these shitposts pop up in every thread?
Nobody. cares.
 
But the reference 290 is more like a 285 considering the insufficient cooling and throttling.
 
In my Silverstone RV03B-W case the cards would vent out of the top. So reference cards would be ideal for me. Aftermarket coolers that dissipate the heat into the case are counterproductive to the design of my case.
 
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mi7chy said:
But the reference 290 is more like a 285 considering the insufficient cooling and throttling.
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Suggest manual fan adjustment. Does wonders for performance with nVidia's reference cooler on the GK110 cards too.

cageymaru said:
In my Silverstone RV03B-W case the cards would vent out of the top. So reference cards would be ideal for me. Aftermarket coolers that dissipate the heat into the case are counterproductive to the design of my case.
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+1 A lot of people don't realize that.

Venomous said:
That can be said true for any video card out there with terrible case cooling.
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Exactly.
 
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I hope AMD come to their senses and make a ~$300-350 GCN 1.1 Mantle capable R9 280. If they want to push Mantle they need to offer more cards than just high end R9 290/290X that support it.
 
mi7chy said:
I hope AMD come to their senses and make a ~$300-350 GCN 1.1 Mantle capable R9 280. If they want to push Mantle they need to offer more cards than just high end R9 290/290X that support it.
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Won't do them any good with cards prices getting all screwed up. Can't push mantle when miners are buying them all up.
 
I feel lucky for getting my 7970 for around $200 brand new before the prices skyrocketed
 
would be nice to see AMD force retailers to stick to msrp pricing. yeah, I must be dreaming...
 
mi7chy said:
I hope AMD come to their senses and make a ~$300-350 GCN 1.1 Mantle capable R9 280. If they want to push Mantle they need to offer more cards than just high end R9 290/290X that support it.
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All GCN GPUs are supposed to have support for Mantle, this means all Rx xxx cards (along with GCN APUs).
 
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