r9 290 price going up?

[blake0812]

I thought the prices go down when there's a new card released? About 2 weeks ago I was looking at this sexy beast and the price was around $240, why the sudden increase in price?
When will it end?!

 

[TemjinGold]

It won't. Think about it: AMD stopped making the 200 series cards. They were that cheap because of the bad rep. Now that the 300 series cleared that rep and people realize these are discontinued, everyone who was on the fence is rushing to get one. Would YOU lower prices in this case?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Less stock. R9 390 being just a refresh and at a higher MSRP.

This XFX is $240 pre-tax/after rebate.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150701&cm_re=r9_290-_-14-150-701-_-Product

 

[Elixer]

They were that cheap because of the bad rep.

They were getting rid of stock, it was as simple as that.

 

[digitaldurandal]

They were getting rid of stock, it was as simple as that.

That is a lot of months to be dumping stock. I got 2 290s in Feb or early March for under 500 with 4 games.

Great deal for me. The price plummeted on the 970 release. Which is fine for me because a 290 is fairly close in performance anyways, I will gladly save 140 bucks (vs 970 sli) for 90+% performance.

I do think that all the reference reviews have hurt the 290 series.

 

[Azix]

Prices will fluctuate. That still looks like 240. 260 after rebate, plus 20 gift card

 

[omek]

That is a lot of months to be dumping stock. I got 2 290s in Feb or early March for under 500 with 4 games.

Great deal for me. The price plummeted on the 970 release. Which is fine for me because a 290 is fairly close in performance anyways, I will gladly save 140 bucks (vs 970 sli) for 90+% performance.

I do think that all the reference reviews have hurt the 290 series.

Yeah but why would get 90% which is now like 95% of the performance for 40% less? AMD could had easily sold the 290/x series at whatever it's competitors equivalent was but instead they sold it for far cheaper. The 290x could had been $425-450 and the 290 $375-400 if you looked at the performance and price of Maxwell.

The 290 and 290x were scarred by the reference cooler, deemed hot and slow which was partially due to thermal throttling and that perception trickled downward and throughout the consumer knowledge base. The 390/x shows what Hawaii is capable of, it's a "clean slate".
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Sorry, thought you were arguing against it *palmface*

 

[Vesku]

Yeah but why would get 90% which is now like 95% of the performance for 40% less? AMD could had easily sold the 290/x series at whatever it's competitors equivalent was but instead they sold it for far cheaper. The 290x could had been $425-450 and the 290 $375-400 if you looked at the performance and price of Maxwell.

The 290 and 290x were scarred by the reference cooler, deemed hot and slow which was partially due to thermal throttling and that perception trickled downward and throughout the consumer knowledge base. The 390/x shows what Hawaii is capable of, it's a "clean slate".

Bolded is exactly why 290(X)s weren't selling well even after the first price drop post 970(980). It wasn't selling, that's why they dropped prices. It took a name change and the corresponding reviews to ditch its launch reputation as having a terrible cooler by forcing, if they want the page hits that come with a new GPU release, tech sites to properly evaluate and tell their readers how custom cooled 290(390) performs.

Just pointing out your own conclusion shows "AMD could had easily sold the 290/x series at whatever it's competitors equivalent was but instead they sold it for far cheaper." isn't true. Imo, any price rise on remaining 290s will be mostly due to retailers finally reaching the end of their stockpile.

 

[omek]

Bolded is exactly why 290(X)s weren't selling well even after the first price drop post 970(980). It wasn't selling, that's why they dropped prices. It took a name change and the corresponding reviews to ditch its launch reputation as having a terrible cooler by forcing, if they want the page hits that come with a new GPU release, tech sites to properly evaluate and tell their readers how custom cooled 290(390) performs.

Just pointing out your own conclusion shows "AMD could had easily sold the 290/x series at whatever it's competitors equivalent was but instead they sold it for far cheaper." isn't true. Imo, any price rise on remaining 290s will be mostly due to retailers finally reaching the end of their stockpile.

Yeah but the perception and lack of sales could had been why the chains where saturated in the first place and in need of dropping the price to clear inventory. I do agree that this last price hike may be caused by lack of inventory but the prices do appear to be close to what a half memory 390/x would cost so (a -$30 to $50 deduction) so I'm not exactly sure being short on stock is the entire motivation here.