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ethomaz said:

Captain_Tom said:

Titan was just destroyed for half the price.  My point exactly...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r9-290x-hawaii-review,3650-35.html

Destoryed?

"and even Nvidia’s GeForce GTX Titan in a number of cases"

Your definition of destroyed is funny.

My thoughts...

GOOD

+ Performance (beat GTX 780... slightly below the Titan)
+ Price (not confirmed yet but seems like $550-600... great price)

BAD (TERRIBLE)

+ Hot hot hot (94°C on load? Hell)
+ Loud (60Db? lol)
+ Power consumption

 

28nm is hurting AMD... bad card in my vision.


If it was  $1000 it wouldn't have destroyed the Titan since it only trades blows with it.  But at nearly half the price I consider it utterly destroyed because price/performance is what really matters.   Also at the resolutions you should actually be using to justify this card, it does soundly beat the Titan.

I posted this to point out that nothing anywhere near close to this is happening in the CPU space and it is really sad for the consumer.  Imagine if AMD launched some $500 Steamroller 8-core that ran at 5+ GHz at 160w and beat the 6-core IB-E!  

 

There is just no one to keep Intel (You from what I hear) in check.  If only IBM would jump into the race again, but we all know that would be a stupid decision...