Anyone else disappointed with R9 300/Fury lineup?

[GoodN1ght]

The Fiji Pro chip doesn't beat the 980 Ti or Titan X from all the benches we've seen thus far. To be taken with a grain of salt for sure, but there's no reason to think that it outperforms the 980 Ti or Titan X. That would be the Fiji XT / Fury X which is poised $600+. The Fiji Pro card should cost ~$450 imo since the next card down is the R9 390X which is basically just a 290X with an unnecessary extra 4GB of GDDR5.

 

And how is the GTX 960 utter garbage? It slightly outperforms the R9 285/R9 280 it competes against, so it seems just fine to me. With Maxwell's memory compression its effective memory bandwidth is similar to the GTX 760, and in other regards it's more powerful (and in games it gets better framerates)... so how exactly is it a bad card? It does well for a $200 card IMO o__0

Litteraly every benchmark points that Fury beats Titan. Lmao. 

[Hieb]

Litteraly every benchmark points that Fury beats Titan. Lmao. 

 

No it doesn't. All the leaked benchmarks I can find right now show the Fury X beating the 980 Ti/Titan X while the Fury (non-X) falls behind both of them.

 

 

These are the most recent benchmarks released.

[GoodN1ght]

No it doesn't. All the leaked benchmarks I can find right now show the Fury X beating the 980 Ti/Titan X while the Fury (non-X) falls behind both of them.

 

 

These are the most recent benchmarks released.

So equal or beating the 980 TI while costing 100$ less. And you would want that to be 400$ for what reason exactly? Do you realize you get a better card (FuryX) then the 980TI with a free fricking Liquid Cooler and like 300 W of OC headroom? 

I get that there's problems with the lineup but your price complaint makes 0 sense. 

[EnzoMP]

Well, usually you expect to pay more for new technologies... 
BUT:

My price complain is that the damn 980ti costs 800Eur instead of 650. 

If AMD is smat, they will not fool around with europe like Nvidia did.

[Hieb]

So equal or beating the 980 TI while costing 100$ less. And you would want that to be 400$ for what reason exactly? Do you realize you get a better card (FuryX) then the 980TI with a free fricking Liquid Cooler and like 300 W of OC headroom? 

I get that there's problems with the lineup but your price complaint makes 0 sense. 

 

Hmm I suppose. The flagship I can understand costing $600-650. But the next notch down I think should be less than $550. AMD doesn't have the presence or marketing power that Nvidia has to get away with overpriced cards, atm IMO. Of course I think $700 is too much for a GTX 980 Ti, but people for whatever reason think that Nvidia has significantly better drivers, that they "care" more about PC gamers (dead serious, no idea where people get this), that AMD cards run stupid hot, etc...

 

I think AMD needs to reel people in with lower prices at least on most of their lineup, perhaps not on the flagship since it probably won't be sold in extremely high quantities anyways.

[EnzoMP]

I like to read nvidia fanbays on geforce forums. 

"Sending my 980 classified in this week for a refund, cant wait for Fury X, had enough of nvidia's terrible drivers lately and in general all the issues with these 900 series cards.. After 8 years of nvidia loyalty, time to change. "

 

Love some of those. 

[EnzoMP]

Btw, since the rumor about 980ti were true, do we have to expect a 980 "metal enhanced edition"?

[GoodN1ght]

Hmm I suppose. The flagship I can understand costing $600-650. But the next notch down I think should be less than $550. AMD doesn't have the presence or marketing power that Nvidia has to get away with overpriced cards, atm IMO. Of course I think $700 is too much for a GTX 980 Ti, but people for whatever reason think that Nvidia has significantly better drivers, that they "care" more about PC gamers (dead serious, no idea where people get this), that AMD cards run stupid hot, etc...

 

I think AMD needs to reel people in with lower prices at least on most of their lineup, perhaps not on the flagship since it probably won't be sold in extremely high quantities anyways.

Well it's not like the normal fury is doing really worse than the 980TI. I suspect when we get great models like Vapor or Lightning theyll be ultra similar and Fury will still be 550.

The fuckup is really the 390X.