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329.99 what? USD, GBP, BTC, EUR, AUD?

 

c'mon OP step up.

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329.99 what? USD, GBP, BTC, EUR, AUD?

c'mon OP step up.

Because the standard currency on the Amazon US store is AUD,EUR,GBP, or BTC.

How would anyone possibly guess from the title saying [uS-Amazon] that it would be in USD.

Step up OP

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no its not. stock per stock clocks the gtx 970 wins http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1056?vs=1355

however that is the gtx 970 G1 gaming. absolutely annihilates even the best r9 290X(vapor-x).and it still has room to OC more

 

That's one of the highest factory clocked 970s vs the absolute worst 290x with the crap reference blower and constant 94C temperature with the associated throttling in the anandtech benchmarks.

Why the i5 over the FX-8350?

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That's one of the highest factory clocked 970s vs the absolute worst 290x with the crap reference blower and constant 94C temperature with the associated throttling in the anandtech benchmarks.

Not to add any fuel. I'm just curious as I just bought the G1 and am new to the PC world. What is one of the higher clocked 290X? Id like to search some comparisons.

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Not to add any fuel. I'm just curious as I just bought the G1 and am new to the PC world. What is one of the higher clocked 290X? Id like to search some comparisons.

 

Sapphire Tri-X is 1040 MHz I think. The Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 is the best price to performance card in the high end, especially at $315 now.

Why the i5 over the FX-8350?

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Because the standard currency on the Amazon US store is AUD,EUR,GBP, or BTC.

How would anyone possibly guess from the title saying [uS-Amazon] that it would be in USD.

Step up OP

Ayy nice try kid. When my comment was originally made the title didn't say US Amazon on it.

Better luck next time.

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i also found this at Directron for $309.99 and a $20 MIR totalling $289.99 US shipped..

http://www.directron.com/112270040g.htm

Well of course a 290 would cost less than a 290x

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Well of course a 290 would cost less than a 290x

 

opps.. my bad, missed the x

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The 290X is faster than the GTX 970, this is established common knowledge.

If by "this is established common knowledge," you mean "sometimes," then yea you're totally right.

 

But otherwise, you aren't, because the two are on par at best.

 

 

Better than a 970 on a crap ton of games*

Fixed it for ya!

 

 

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The two offer essentially the same performance, with the 970 having the upper hand in power efficiency and heat output. I thought this was common knowledge.

 

Not trying to be a fanboy at all, and I actually have a gtx 970 reference myself, but those games are all not dx12. The r9 290x can match the titan x in dx12 games. 

http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-290x-fast-titan-dx12-enabled-3dmark-33-faster-gtx-980/

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/3DMark-API-Overhead-Feature-Test-Early-DX12-Performance

Those are draw calls, not performance, please don't confuse the two.

 

Please look at the graphs again and compare draw calls on DX11 as well. The R9 290X makes more draw calls in DX11, but the Titan X outperforms it by a significant amount despite that. So do draw calls translate to total performance? No.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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wait so the 290X is cheaper and better than the 970... wut

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but don't forget, the 290x opened at $595 18 months ago on launch. then the

mining community tore into the price point and now since the washout of mining

the older cards fell in price and have leveled out. but with the advent of the

R9 300-series, these in stock prices will fall again (even though some R9 200

series will be renamed R9 300).

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That's one of the highest factory clocked 970s vs the absolute worst 290x with the crap reference blower and constant 94C temperature with the associated throttling in the anandtech benchmarks.

do you see that it says in big letters ''WITH REFERENCE BIOS'' ? so it has stock clocks. no card in the whole anandtech bench is OC`ed

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The 290X is faster than the GTX 970, this is established common knowledge.

The benchmarks provided by s3ns3 are deeply flawed, look at the BF4 benchmark where they're showing the R9 290X tied with an R9 280X. I would hardly call those results reliable or in fact correct.

Based on the latest drivers and in an average of 19 different games the R9 290X was in fact faster than the GTX 970 in 4K, 1440P and tied in 1080p.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan_X/29.html

Lastly neither the R9 290X or the GTX 970 should even be considered for 1080p gaming, as you'll just waste the performance of such powerful GPUs at 1080p.

Unless you're running a 120Hz monitor an R9 285 or GTX 960 are better choices for 1080p.

 

 

3% faster in 1440p. Thats well with in the margin of error. Also at 1080p a 290x or 970 aren't overkill in all honesty. There are games in which the 285 and 960 can't even muster 60 fps at 1080p with all settings near max. The 970 and 290x will also serve you for a longer period of time. Late because forum wasn't working

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From my own testing a 1300 core / 6000 mem 290X is faster than a 1585 core / 8000 mem 970 especially over 1080P. At 4K it's not even close

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