I think the R9 290X doom was premature.

[Captain_Tom]

fatslob-:O said:

Captain_Tom said:

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.

Uh huh ... 

No hard feelings but the gap was 7 months, not a year and a half. 

My bad, but then this lines up pretty well with what I said.  The difference is the 390X is going to be FAR stronger than the 980 as opposed to how the 480 was just stronger than the 5870.