Radeon R9 290X hits $900 -- AnandTech

[BloodySinner]

Once again, I'll ask. Why can't we buy these cards directly from AMD?

[D3MON]

finally america has to pay similar prices to the rest of the world and stops screwing us over, at the end of the day, people wouldnt be buying it if it didnt pay for itself somehow.

a 290 is still cheaper than a 780 in the uk
http://www.ebuyer.com/612887-powercolor-r9-290-4gb-gddr5-oc-bf4-edition-dual-dvi-hdmi-pci-e-axr9-290-4gbd5-mdhg
£310

http://www.ebuyer.com/523363-zotac-geforce-gtx-780-3gb-graphics-card-pci-e-2x-dvi-hdmi-display-zt-70202-10p
£383
most 780s are around £430 which will get you a gigabyte windforce 290x or an MSI gaming frozr 290x..

i think i should point out this is the uk....in europe, not brazil or taiwan or lebanon.. where prices are bound to be high and competing parts have huge price differences.

[fringie]

Is mining with AMD cards really that good?

[deviant88]

Save your cash for when the mining buble bursts and all these people with multiple cards on their hands start selling them on ebay for half the price

[mr moose]

I miss the good old days were people bought hardware for enthusiast overclocking and not mining,  If the mining bubble bursts I will be happy, It's just a shame we will never be able to overclock like in the late 90's.

[EChondo]

 

^This is pretty much is what happening with AMD cards. For clarification, Arizonas are drinks sold pretty much anywhere and range from fruit drinks to teas. The company imprints a 99 cent logo on them, but a lot of stores put stickers on top of that, thus increasing the price. MSRP isn't mandatory, it can be changed by the retailer, just like what Newegg is doing.

[JaeDee884]

Might start buying 290xs in Australia and selling them on eBay US

[bramturismo]

For some reason german prices acctually dropped in the last few weeks. (The aftermarket ones came out for 480€ and are now at 450€.) That means that we finally have better prices in Germany then in America. Great. (450*1,3= 585$ So an aftermarket Tri X R9 290x would be 580$ in germany. 

 

Prices staying stable here as well. Currently reference 290s for 400 euros, aftermakret 290s for 430 and 290X for 490-520 euros here in Belgium.

[Ineko]

Might start buying 290xs in Australia and selling them on eBay US

 

^

 

We can still get them from about $650 with stock cooler and around $750 with aftermarket cooler.

 

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=193_1555&products_id=25612

[ChillKyle]

Once you pick green or red team, you will hardly go back.

[MasterJV]

Nobody buy unless you strictly mine and ONLY mine lite coins. 780 Ti is a much better value and is faster in games.

Why isn't AMD doing anything? All they are doing is losing possible customers now and in the future.

PCper has a great video about his on their YT Channel. Nvidia is winning because their getting people into their Eco System(Gsync,PhysX,ShadowPlay)

[beebskadoo]

I bet Nvidia is just loving this right now...Wonder how their sales are looking right now compared to AMD...

[mc141]

Holy shit i just paid 699 last week

[Raphael_123]

its says $799 now

[RazeG3SG1]

I'm lucky that I don't live in mining countries. Unless Nvidia has something that can beat AMD in compute performance. I really doubt AMD cards will drop in price.

[martinrox1568]

Someone at Anantech wasn't doing their job well. . ..$200 rise of point isn't 50%. But I saw this with their bit bitcoin mining advertisement. Can't wait to see what will happen to bitcoin once it become too hard to mine and everyone quits.

[Plasma]

lol the ASUS Radeon R9 290X DirectCU II OC 4GB in aus at http://pccasegear.com is 799

[Da'Argo]

AMD in danger of ruining their rep with not so informed PC gamers. They may not look at AMD in the future.

[flibberdipper]

Wow. The 780Ti is much more appealing now, even without Mantle (it already rips the nuts off the 290X in DirectX). Way to go miners.

[flibberdipper]

I bet Nvidia is just loving this right now...Wonder how their sales are looking right now compared to AMD...

Still probably bad, since AMD is getting a shit-ton of miners.

[Vitalius]

Wow. The 780Ti is much more appealing now, even without Mantle (it already rips the nuts off the 290X in DirectX). Way to go miners.

You people and your analogies. 

It does nothing of the sort. It's slightly better. Like all top tier GPUs are, in relation to each other, only slightly better.

Sorry, I'm just getting tired of the constant use of analogies and descriptors that are completely unfit for the thing they are describing.

[WereCat]

In my country, R9 280x is 250€, GTX 770 is 285€, R9 290 is 365€, GTX 780 is 470€, R9 290x is 540€ and GTX 780ti is 690€... so I am sorry US but finaly we got better prices for at least AMD.

[KamiKatze]

In my country, R9 280x is 250€, GTX 770 is 285€, R9 290 is 365€, GTX 780 is 470€, R9 290x is 540€ and GTX 780ti is 690€... so I am sorry US but finaly we got better prices for at least AMD.

 

The revenge is so sweet.

 

It's the same in germany. R9 280X costs 250€ VS $500 on newegg.

 

@all:

i am willing to sell my Gigabyte Windforce 280X for $399 <o.n.o.> + shipping cost to your place! It's still full in the juice, it's only running since december. But i probably want to switch to the green team again, since mining isn't profitable anymore. I have mined for only 2 weeks.

[DJHoro]

Just checked newegg. Prices go anywhere from 799 - 899 with most being 899. I live in the US if that matters.

 

Edit: Like only 1 is 799$ and 2 are 879$. the Rest are 899$

[juretrn]

Let me repost a pic: