Well he got a great deal in Australia because for some reason the titan is even more expensive the 690 and 7990 in most stores
AMD quietly drops Radeon HD 7990 price to $700
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St1ckM4n
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True, good deal for AU ($1400-1400?), but not overall.
I'm betting that the stores imported this in at a very cheap price due to the good dollar a few months ago.
GhostRyder
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The titan is a complete rip off, it honestly does not have enough power to beat the 690 offered by NVidia at the same price and like you said in many cases the titan is more. The 780 was by far a better deal, but its still a huge asking price considering the fact that you can get 2 7970s for less than the price of 1 of those cards.
GPU's on the higher end are raising prices all around each generation significantly more than has happened in along time (Maybe the highest increases of all time) and its getting to a point that being a high end PC gamer is getting harder. At the price of 1k on both, I didn't like either the 690 or 7990 as during the last generation, the prices were in the range of 6-700. Now with the whole bundle, the 7990 is the best bargin on the market right now. I actually saw at one point the Devil 13 by powercolor was 629 with a rebate on the 7th of august which I almost bought just because I was so shocked the price was so low. Wish I had bought two now sadly, however Im still satisfied with my rig.
Whatever card amd releases next will just be a refresh I think. Nothing really great until Q1 2014 at the earliest.
Skidmarksdeluxe
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I like the fact that AMD has reduced the price and $200 is a good price drop but in my opinion any GFX card that costs over $350 is terrible value considering they only have a 2 hour life span before they're considered obsolete. I would never ever buy a GFX card that costs so much even if I had money to burn.
cliffordcooley
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I gotta disagree with you and at least make it a 2 day lifespan. lol
amstech
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Titan is a ripoff but nothing touches it or the GTX 780. Who cares about having the fastest single dual GPU card, only the fastest single GPU matters because having past 3 GPU's is mostly useless, 4 being the max. Quad SLi Titans or 780's wreck everything and anything. From every standpoint besides price, they are simply the best. People who buy a 30ft Scarab or Dodge Viper aren't concerned about money. This same principal applies here.
For me, I always buy second best. You get 90% of the performance at much less. The lifespan guess is irrelevant. I have a friend who's been rocking CrossfireX 2GB 5870's (since release, been several years now) and they still do quite well as his resolution (1200p).
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So, basicly, we are waiting for the old horse Radeon 9XXX, rebranded with HD infront?
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Jad Chaar
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Valid points. The single GPU part is important, forgot about that.
I think we already made it pretty clear in the comments that they are releasing the next gen 9xxx cards with GCN2.0 in Q4 (sometime in October if reports are correct) ^_^
dividebyzero
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Yep, never underestimate the allure of the halo effect. Rational pricing for the top single GPU SKU has always played second (third?) fiddle to the PR machine and the urges of the egocentric....and of course, having three or four of them (depending on generation) will invariably trump any dual GPU setup.
well then oct isn't to far away should be interesting.
Darth Shiv
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Um... that is a particularly massive straw?
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VitaliT, not slam ! AMD made the moves of desperation?! In desperation you write. Have you ever heard of bitcoin, litecoin, feathercoin, PP coin and other virtual currencies? Are you have idea that their generation is done using HIHG END AMD graphics cards: 7990,7970,7950,6990,5970 etc. Do you know how big the network virtual money? Very large. Nobody buys nVIDIA graphics cards for mining virtual money. What do you think why ? Well, because they are inferior . AMD is not in crisis. The crisis can only be nVIDIA. For example. I have: 1 x SAPPHIRE 7970 VAPOR-X Gygahertz edition, 6 x MSI 7950 TWIN FROZR III, 1 x SAPPHIRE 7950 TURBOBOOST and OC DUAL-X,1 x MSI 5850 TWIN FROZR II, etc.
Many of my fellow virtual miners have hundreds of AMD graphics card! I will have them all the more because of parallel programming AMD stream processors much more flexible than the nVIDIA CUDA cores! Where is the famous nVIDIA CUDA technology in mine virtual money? There is none anywhere. Look at the hardware comparison :
-http://litecoin.info/Mining_Hardware_Comparison
-https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
. AMD is not in crisis. The crisis can only be nVIDIA. For example. I have: 1 x SAPPHIRE 7970 VAPOR-X Gygahertz edition, 6 x MSI 7950 TWIN FROZR III, 1 x SAPPHIRE 7950 TURBOBOOST and OC DUAL-X,1 x MSI 5850 TWIN FROZR II, etc.Many of my fellow virtual miners have hundreds of AMD graphics card! I will have them all the more because of parallel programming AMD stream processors much more flexible than the nVIDIA CUDA cores! Where is the famous nVIDIA CUDA technology in mine virtual money? There is none anywhere. Look at the hardware comparison :
-http://litecoin.info/Mining_Hardware_Comparison
-https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
cliffordcooley
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Unless you can tell me there is a practical purpose behind making all those cards process 24/7, I personally don't care how many you use mining bitcoins. At least with folding@home there was a cause which was finding a cure for decease. What is the cause with mining bitcoins? You would be a fool to make your machine process 24/7, if you didn't know what all that processing was used for. I for one would like someone to explain what this cause is.
St1ckM4n
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No one knows. The tasks given to users could be encryption that the miners are helping to break.. who knows.
And I thought the general consensus was that AMD is better bang for buck, which is why they are used on mining rigs.
Amazing thing just happened, it went down! http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=23672
St1ckM4n
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havok585
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For one thing I know is when someone comes just criticizing others without saying anything useful on the subject, is when they don't know anything about it.
Check definition for Trolling, Dave, you might find your picture there
Hehe, u put him right into his place.
ViperSniper2
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I haven't bought Nvidia for years. Since they were exposed for using the same hardware used in lower priced models, just programed differently to enable the better features. ATI (AMD) has always been straightforward about giving you the best hardware and features for the money. While CEO Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia has always been out to snake us and Sony, Microsoft, ASUS, and every other hardware manufacture with blowhard style bravado that just doesn't prove true out in the actual World of Gaming instead of Over Rated Shill Benchmarking! .......at least I know with ATI/AMD I usually get more than I pay for instead of the other way around!!! DD
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cliffordcooley
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If only that were true!at least I know with ATI/AMD I usually get more than I pay for instead of the other way around!!!
I haven't bought Nvidia for years. Since they were exposed for using the same hardware used in lower priced models, just programed differently to enable the better features. ATI (AMD) has always been straightforward about giving you the best hardware and features for the money. While CEO Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia has always been out to snake us and Sony, Microsoft, ASUS, and every other hardware manufacture with blowhard style bravado that just doesn't prove true out in the actual World of Gaming instead of Over Rated Shill Benchmarking! .......at least I know with ATI/AMD I usually get more than I pay for instead of the other way around!!!
Whatever you are on can I buy some?
ATI(AMD),Nvidia,Sony,Microsoft, Asus are all publicly traded companies with shareholders that demand profits.
They only care about your money son.
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