Warming-- AMD 295x2 now $1000 (from $1500)

[jackstar7]

Unsure how long this price will last (like what happened with the 7990), but for the few who need this much GPU power, this might be the time to go for it.

Amazon (note the "new from $999" if the listing shows higher): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JOQZ4XE

Newegg:
Powercolor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-579-_-Product

Diamond: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-131-_-Product

XFX: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-710-_-Product

Expect other retailers to be following suit...

 

[Samus]

LMAO. I saw this earlier on Engadget and thought "so a ridiculously inflated price is reduced to a less ridiculously inflated price"

I mean...the card is two years old. It's just crazy how expensive these GCN 1.0/1.1 cards are still selling for. I get that its a crazy amount of GPU power, but the price drop is clearly in anticipation for nVidia's Maxwell announcement next month, an architecture that is going to just destroy everything else on the market in efficiency (it's TWICE as powerful per watt as Kepler, which is already slightly more powerful per watt than GCN 1.1)




The lowest price on an item is still considered a hot deal.

From the rules:
What about COURTESY?

No thread crapping. If the subject matter of a deal does not interest you, do not post negative comments about it, or about other members, in the thread.



esquared
Anandtech Forum Director

 

[Kenmitch]

LMAO. I saw this earlier on Engadget and thought "so a ridiculously inflated price is reduced to a less ridiculously inflated price"

I mean...the card is two years old. It's just crazy how expensive these GCN 1.0/1.1 cards are still selling for. I get that its a crazy amount of GPU power, but the price drop is clearly in anticipation for nVidia's Maxwell announcement next month, an architecture that is going to just destroy everything else on the market in efficiency (it's TWICE as powerful per watt as Kepler, which is already slightly more powerful per watt than GCN 1.1)

??? Did you post in the wrong thread. Looking at your comments it belongs in the video cards and graphics forum.

2yrs old? It was launched in April of this year. The 290's were launched in October 2013.

Price wise it doesn't seem like a bad value to me at $999 for the performance you get in 1 slot.

 

[goobernoodles]

I don't get the hate on Samus' comment. It's entirely relevant. I heard about the $500 price drop and was wondering if it'd be something worth grabbing. People don't just buy things because they're at the lowest price around. That alone doesn't make a good deal. Constructive input should be encouraged, not lazily labelled as thread crapping.

 

[Centauri]

...but it is thread crapping because all of his assumptions about the product are incorrect.

This is not the 7990.

 

[Pariah]

...but it is thread crapping because all of his assumptions about the product are incorrect.

This is not the 7990.

I think you're right that he confused 295x2 for the 7990. That's not thread crapping, that's a mistake. He is correct that the GCN architecture is largely unchanged for 2.5 years, and is getting rather long in the tooth, yet prices are remaining static. Time for something new AMD. Based on the just released first GCN 1.2 card from AMD, I have little hope that will be any time soon.

 

[Samus]

I think you're right that he confused 295x2 for the 7990. That's not thread crapping, that's a mistake. He is correct that the GCN architecture is largely unchanged for 2.5 years, and is getting rather long in the tooth, yet prices are remaining static. Time for something new AMD. Based on the just released first GCN 1.2 card from AMD, I have little hope that will be any time soon.

You guys can call it what you want, but if you want to call a card with 3 year old architecture for $1000 a hot deal, then... well, wow.

All I was intending to do with my post is to warn people who might not know that new, superior, modern architectures are due out next month. This card will shortly be discontinued or reduced even further once single chip Maxwell cards trump it in performance for half the price.

Constructive criticism isn't against the rules. Ill admit this isn't my most tactful argument. But it is relevant information. Thank you for the post jackstar.





I just told you to stop the threadcrapping.

This deal clearly does not interest you so you need to stay out of the thread.

Constructive criticism is still criticism and is not allowed in HD. Read the rules on what negative comments you are allowed to make.


esquared
Anandtech Forum Director

 

[garagisti]

You guys can call it what you want, but if you want to call a card with 3 year old architecture for $1000 a hot deal, then... well, wow.

All I was intending to do with my post is to warn people who might not know that new, superior, modern architectures are due out next month. This card will shortly be discontinued or reduced even further once single chip Maxwell cards trump it in performance for half the price.

Constructive criticism isn't against the rules. Ill admit this isn't my most tactful argument. But it is relevant information. Thank you for the post jackstar.

Surely you could substantiate your claims about Maxwell cards trumping performance of 295x2 at half the price by posting some benchmarks. No? Given the current prices of cards, be it R9 290x or 780Ti, this card is fairly good value.

 

[sleepeeg3]

I imagine this is probably the best cost/efficiency ratio for virtual currency mining using GPUs?

 

[Awesomedude99]

Surely you could substantiate your claims about Maxwell cards trumping performance of 295x2 at half the price by posting some benchmarks. No? Given the current prices of cards, be it R9 290x or 780Ti, this card is fairly good value.

i'd agree but not everyone knows what they want to do with this card. so this price is to high for them you know

 

[MagickMan]

I have an RoG Ares III (WC card) SN 345 and it's a real beast. 100% recommended.

 

[Samus]

Surely you could substantiate your claims about Maxwell cards trumping performance of 295x2 at half the price by posting some benchmarks. No? Given the current prices of cards, be it R9 290x or 780Ti, this card is fairly good value.

So to update my earlier speculation, not even a week goes by and the 980 and 970 (Maxwell) are released, and yes, for nearly half the price, you can have two 970's in SLI that trump the 295 x2 in performance by over 15%.

So even though this card was a great deal in the fact it was being sold at 1/3rd its price, it is still double what it should cost.





What did you not understand about my post on 9-6-14.


Stay out of this thread.


esquared
Anandtech Forum Director

 

[Pariah]

So to update my earlier speculation, not even a week goes by and the 980 and 970 (Maxwell) are released, and yes, for nearly half the price, you can have two 970's in SLI that trump the 295 x2 in performance by over 15%.

So even though this card was a great deal in the fact it was being sold at 1/3rd its price, it is still double what it should cost.

At higher resolutions, where you would actually need this much performance, the AMD solution is still faster:

I don't understand your assertion that AMD's faster one card solution should cost $500 while NVidia's $660 2 card solution is acceptably priced.

 

[Samus]

Way to hand-pick the benchmarks.

At higher resolutions, where you would actually need this much performance, the AMD solution is still faster:

I don't understand your assertion that AMD's faster one card solution should cost $500 while NVidia's $660 2 card solution is acceptably priced.

The AMD solution needs a 1000 watt power supply, liquid cooling and even then it's a 3 year old architecture not supporting full DX11, DX12 or even 4K60p properly, which as you assert in the handpicked benchmarks, are what this card is basically meant for.




What did you not understand about my post on 9-6-14.



Stay out of this thread.


esquared
Anandtech Forum Director