R9 280 in stock at Overclockers UK

[JDG1980]

I was browsing Overclockers UK and noticed that they now have a R9 280 (non-X) in stock. It's a Sapphire, using their standard "Dual-X" cooler.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-347-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1842

The price translates to about $282 in US dollars (excluding VAT - do overseas buyers have to pay that?).

Double-checked Newegg, but nothing there yet.

 

[96Firebird]

MSRP here is $280, so it looks like it is selling at MSRP over there. Sadly, that doesn't mean it will for sure sell for MSRP here. :\

 

[blackened23]

I don't quite understand the 280 MSRP. The 7950 was practically sold everywhere for like 180-200$ earlier this year before the crypto craze. I also don't think MSRP will happen in the states or Canada, but....I mean 20$ less MSRP than the 280X. But let's ignore US/Canada pricing for a moment. If we focus on outside of NA pricing:

The 7950 was a tremendous bargain over the 7970. The 280 is basically the same price as the 280X? Only 20$ less? Wouldn't it make more sense for a 230-250$ MSRP? I seriously don't get it. The 7950 launched 100$ cheaper than the 7970. And now.....2 years later this is 20$ cheaper than the same 7970/280X. Unless this is some elaborate AMD scheme to normalize their 280X pricing. Who knows. If it is that , I don't think it will be effective.

 

[SimianR]

I don't quite understand the 280 MSRP. The 7950 was practically sold everywhere for like 180-200$ earlier this year before the crypto craze. I also don't think MSRP will happen in the states or Canada, but....I mean 20$ less MSRP than the 280X. But let's ignore US/Canada pricing for a moment. If we focus on outside of NA pricing:

The 7950 was a tremendous bargain over the 7970. The 280 is basically the same price as the 280X? Only 20$ less? Wouldn't it make more sense for a 230-250$ MSRP? I seriously don't get it. The 7950 launched 100$ cheaper than the 7970. And now.....2 years later this is 20$ cheaper than the same 7970/280X. Unless this is some elaborate AMD scheme to normalize their 280X pricing. Who knows. If it is that , I don't think it will be effective.

Yeah it is odd. I'm thinking AMD is looking at the actual retail pricing of their products and trying to set a more realistic MSRP for the 280 instead of setting it at $250 and when it's sold for $350-400 having people be disappointed. Regardless.. I don't think it will sell for $280 anyway :|

Newegg.ca is selling an old 7950 for $370 (CAD) currently.. so I don't see why they would sell the 280 for MSRP.

 

[JDG1980]

It's interesting that the R9 280 has slower RAM (1250 MHz) than all of the other R9-series cards (most of which are specced at 1400 MHz, as is the R7 265). If the shortage of AMD cards is due to GDDR5 shortages, as I have speculated, maybe this will help overcome that. The slower RAM that isn't suitable for the Playstation 4 can go into these cards. It will also keep mining hash rate down (this can be very sensitive to memory timings). If the R9 280 can only hash at 600-650 KH/sec, then it might actually not be that appealing to miners, considering that a R7 265 can get well over 400 at little more than half the price. The R9 280 would need to be down near $250 to be more cost-effective than that.