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Captain_Tom on 23 October 2014
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JEMC said:
Captain_Tom said:
JEMC said:
fatslob-:O said:
Unless AMD has a new product line coming in the next 4 or so months than the dooming of the R9 290X is justified ...

After they scrapped the 285X, nothing until Q1 2015 nothing if the rumors are true.


It's not scrapped.  Many rumors still point to it launching this year, and expect it to be just a little weaker than the 780.

I knew that it was at least delayed due to the performance but mostly the price of the 970, basically they were forced to put the 290 at the price that the 285X was going to launch.

If they still launch it then great, but the 285X main competitor could end up being the 290, with the former being more power efficient and the later a tiny bit faster.


That may indeed be part of it.  However what I read was that they wanted to wait for the 960 to come out first so that they could tune clocks/price a little to beat it.  Now that Nvidia is delaying it, maybe AMD isn't sure what to do.  I mean I guess it would be the 290X at $350, 290 at $300, and 285X at $250 ideally.  yeah they would probably have to sell the 285X for $220 considering the 290 is practically stabalizing at $270.