I think the R9 290X doom was premature.

[Captain_Tom]

fatslob-:O said:

Captain_Tom said:

Your talking about the people who decimated the Titan a year ago.  They are waiting for 20nm and they clearly can wait because their 1 year old GPU's are still competitive with Maxwell.

Look up the leaks on the 390X.  It should be around twice as strong as a 290X.

AMD still isn't healthy ...

Sure 1 year old GPUs may still be competitive but AMD will be making losses in the meantime cause a GTX 970 is cheaper to produce than an R9 290X.

I don't care about leaks, what I care most are benchmarks ... 

Of course things could be better.  Their hands are tied though.  Do you think Nvidia was happy when they couldn't respond to the 5870 for 1.5 years!?  Sometimes things just work out like this.