Radeon Pro Duo drops down to $800 MSRP

[goodtofufriday]

Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/xfx-radeon-pro-duo-drops-way-down-to-800/

 

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It looks like AMD and its hardware partners are trying to clear out old inventory to make way for Vega. Either that or XFX's price drop on its Radeon Pro Duo card on Newegg is simply an outlier. Either way, it's now priced at $800, down significantly from the going rate (around $1,400).

That is by far the lowest price we've seen for a Radeon Pro Duo card. The only other model available on Newegg is from Sapphire and it's listed at nearly $1,800, albeit from a third-party seller. The same card on Amazon is available for $1,400, while the XFX version is listed at $1,350.

 

Yes yes yass. Now to watch the prices on used units go down and toss it into my build with a custom water block. Yes I know vega is around the corner, but I have a mighty need!

[Mr.Meerkat]

Me want...agh, can't decide whether I want a dual GPU beast again in my life or a efficient single GPU  (to be honest, my RX470 is serving me perfectly fine so...I'm actually tempted to not upgrade to Vega anymore and just get a 500 quid more expensive car )

[AresKrieger]

Cant remember what GPU it uses, want to say fury but unsure

[The Sloth]

it might be worth the price 

[Morgan MLGman]

4 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Cant remember what GPU it uses, want to say fury but unsure

Two Fiji XT chips (those found in the Fury X and R9 Nano) making it essentially two Fury X GPUs in Crossfire on a single, watercooled card.

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, AresKrieger said:

Cant remember what GPU it uses, want to say fury but unsure

Think of it as a dual fury X on one PCB, that's what it is  

[PCGuy_5960]

13 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Me want...agh, can't decide whether I want a dual GPU beast again in my life or a efficient single GPU  (to be honest, my RX470 is serving me perfectly fine so...I'm actually tempted to not upgrade to Vega anymore and just get a 500 quid more expensive car )

Why do you have a 1060 6GB in your secondary PC and an RX 470 in your main rig??

[Simon771]

Not sure if it's wise to buy that GPU, since Vega is just around the corner.

I would wait a bit more to see what will Vega offer to the GPU market.

[PCGuy_5960]

16 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

it might be worth the price 

It definitely is..... It is roughly just as powerful as a 980 Ti SLI....

[PigWithAMustache]

I didn't even realize this card existed...

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

It definitely is..... It is roughly just as powerful as a 980 Ti SLI....

i might upgrade to this in my HTPC if vaga doesn't impress me. 

[goodtofufriday]

4 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Not sure if it's wise to buy that GPU, since Vega is just around the corner.

I would wait a bit more to see what will Vega offer to the GPU market.

At least for me, I'll be making a new machine entirely around AMD's new hardware, so my current build it would be fun to say it has the most powerful AMD hardware pre-2017

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Source: http://www.pcgamer.com/xfx-radeon-pro-duo-drops-way-down-to-800/

 

 

Yes yes yass. Now to watch the prices on used units go down and toss it into my build with a custom water block. Yes I know vega is around the corner, but I have a mighty need!

Don't forget the watercoooled fury x is 300$ on amazon

[PCGuy_5960]

5 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

i might upgrade to this in my HTPC if vaga doesn't impress me. 

There are a couple of reasons why you don't wanna do that..... 

1. Size
2. Power consumption
3. Heat
4. Liquid cooled

For an HTPC the RX 480/GTX 1060 are perfect choices IMO....

Edited January 19, 2017 by PCGuy_5960

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

There are a couple of reasons why you don't wanna do that..... 

1. Size
2. Power consumption
3. Heat
4. Liquid cooled

For an HTPC an RX 480/GTX 1060 are perfect choices IMO....

 

but the bragging rights 

[Simon771]

2 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

At least for me, I'll be making a new machine entirely around AMD's new hardware, so my current build it would be fun to say it has the most powerful AMD hardware pre-2017

Well I will wait for guys like you to buy all those brand new AMD products and test them out, then decide if it's worth to upgrade from my i7 4790k

1 minute ago, FTL said:

Don't forget the watercoooled fury x is 300$ on amazon

Wondering why are prices of those cards going down so much. It feels like AMD is trying to get rid of all the stock before they flood market with Vega and Ryzen lol

[goodtofufriday]

2 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

There are a couple of reasons why you don't wanna do that..... 

1. Size
2. Power consumption
3. Heat
4. Liquid cooled

For an HTPC an RX 480/GTX 1060 are perfect choices IMO....

Sometimes it doesnt need to make sense. Sometimes it just needs to look cool

[Juanitology]

The real story here isn't the 800 USD card but what a price drop like this will do to the used market. We'll be able to pick these up for 400 bucks

[PCGuy_5960]

8 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Sometimes it doesnt need to make sense. Sometimes it just needs to look cool

But aren't HTPCs supposed to be small....? The thing is ginormous! 

[goodtofufriday]

Double post somehow

[Juanitology]

 

14 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

There are a couple of reasons why you don't wanna do that..... 

1. Size
2. Power consumption
3. Heat
4. Liquid cooled

For an HTPC the RX 480/GTX 1060 are perfect choices IMO....

I agree with this, you can always run a mid-range GPU on your HTPC and use game-stream to play at 4K using your main rig on your livingroom

[PCGuy_5960]

4 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Double post somehow

Has happened to me. All is good

[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, Terodius said:

I agree with this, you can always run a mid-range GPU on your HTPC and use game-stream to play at 4K using your main rig on your livingroom

You can game at 4K with low settings using an RX 480/GTX 1060

 

[Shakaza]

Wow, this thing was so irrelevant that I completely forgot about its existence until now! It might actually become a compelling option!

[Misanthrope]

This can kinda be a Titan x pee alternative for those Korean 4k freesync screens. 

 

But I'd wait for even lower prices with Vega close to follow they could get even cheaper: the 295x2 did but this one might actually run on a sub 700watt psu.