GTX 690 vs. Radeon 7990

[89ycha]

omg what happened to the price recently. Last time when I checked it was at par with 690.
I should definitely go with 7990, the price difference is just ridiculous.

btw anyone knows the reason for the price drop?? Were there any issues?

 

[powruser]

No issues to speak of besides poor Crossfire scaling in some instances (which drivers can and will improve over time) and lots of reports of coil whine. I believe since the 7970 GHz Edition was getting beat by the GTX Titan/780, AMD wanted to be able to say they had the fastest single card available (which they do), so they lowered the price to compete with the GTX 780.

 

[Warsam71]

I don't think the OP is looking into dual GPUs (XFire or SLI).

Reviews for some of the R9 and R7 series GPUs have been released and information about the R9 290X will be available soon - when are you planning to upgrade? (I'd wait a couple of weeks or so if I were you). If you can't wait, then the HD7990 is the way to go - which games are you planning on playing?

 

[lehtv]

I don't think the OP is looking into dual GPUs (XFire or SLI)

You mean dual single GPU graphics cards? The 7990 and the GTX 590 have dual GPUs.

 

[Rvenger]

I don't think the OP is looking into dual GPUs (XFire or SLI).

Reviews for some of the R9 and R7 series GPUs have been released and information about the R9 290X will be available soon - when are you planning to upgrade? (I'd wait a couple of weeks or so if I were you). If you can't wait, then the HD7990 is the way to go - which games are you planning on playing?

So what's the price going to be? Many of us are a little upset due to the fact we can't even preorder it like promised on the 3rd.

 

[Face2Face]

So what's the price going to be? Many of us are a little upset due to the fact we can't even preorder it like promised on the 3rd.

This is the latest rumor - You are looking @ $649

http://videocardz.com/46558/amd-radeon-r9-290x-r9-290-european-pricing-unveiled

I am thinking for $519 or $499 the R9 290 with OC will be the better deal.

 

[89ycha]

I don't think the OP is looking into dual GPUs (XFire or SLI).

Reviews for some of the R9 and R7 series GPUs have been released and information about the R9 290X will be available soon - when are you planning to upgrade? (I'd wait a couple of weeks or so if I were you). If you can't wait, then the HD7990 is the way to go - which games are you planning on playing?

Thanks for the advise. I'm just worried of price going back up again.. I'm upgrading because my friend gave me 2 monitors(i was using 2). Now I have 2x24' and 2x23', I want to try 4 monitors @ 1920x1080. Not sure if it's possible do.

I pretty much play all new games, except strategy games.