Just saw this today, seems like a good deal.
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AMD R9 280X 3GB XFX Black Edition $349 (Free delivery for NSW Metro)
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Bizarrely they're still selling the non-Black Edition XFX 280X for $359:
http://www.itestate.com.au/pages/product/pdt_product_detail.…does anyone know why they changed the naming convention down to 200's?
No idea… and it makes it next to impossible to know which cards are the best value for money when they have multiple ranges with different numbering schemes that don't line up with how they actually perform.
ie. I have a Radeon 7950 and based on the naming I couldn't tell whether this would be an upgrade for me or not without looking at benchmarks first (not that I ever buy new PC parts without doing that). The old naming convention had been used long enough and uniformly enough to tell what level in the new series you were buying.
Although you can usually look at the price to have an idea too. Based on that alone I would assume this is the equivalent of the 7950 in the 79*0 series? This is the card range I always look at when upgrading. Tends to be the value for money spot in a gaming PC. Now I'll have to look at benchmarks and see whether this would be worth the money for me to upgrade. My gaming PC hasn't had a new part bought in a while. Technology in Video Cards and CPU's seems to have stopped improving at the rate it used to. Has saved me a lot of money, but I kinda like the yearly PC rebuilds.
These are all the rebadged cards.
7970 = 280x
7950 = 280
7870 = 270x
7850 = 270??
7790 = 260x
7770 = 260??
Then we have the hair dryers reference 290, 290x
I count myself as a well informed PC user/gamer but I actually thought the 280s were new cards. I can understand adopting a new naming convention, but rebadging old cards is sort of misleading.
So the 290 series are the new ones. Then they go onto the 300 series, then 310?
280x = 7970 Ghz edition
but rebadging old cards is sort of misleading.
NVidia and AMD have been doing this since they started making GPUs. You can go all the way back to the NVidia Riva TNT2 series of 1999 which were higher-clocked TNT cards or the old Radeon R300 series of 2002 (the old Radeon 9000 series), which were rebadged and sold as pretty much identical cards 2 years later as the Radeon X300/600/1050 series.
There are actually new chips in the R9 2xx series but they are basically just slightly more power-efficient and better binned HD 7000 series chips like the Tahiti, Bonaire, Cape Verde; now with the suffixes of "XTX", "XTL", "PRX" and "PRO".
So the 290 series are the new ones. Then they go onto the 300 series, then 310?
The proper GCN 2.0 successor was supposed to launch at the end of this year, roughly around now, and was tentatively called the HD 8000 series but that naming convention ended up being used for AMD's OEM line-up of GPUs, with the rumoured HD 9000 series turning into the R9 2xx's, with GCN 1.1 architecture.
The proper GCN 2.0 successor (the "Pirates Islands" family of GPUs) is coming in 2015.
Dang. Amar knows his stuff ;)
No idea… and it makes it next to impossible to know which cards are the best value for money when they have multiple ranges with different numbering schemes that don't line up with how they actually perform.
Just start with the lowest model of the 7000 series and match it to the lowest model of the R9 200 series and go up from there.
- Radeon HD 7350 = Radeon R5 210
- Radeon HD 7450 = Radeon R5 220
- Radeon HD 7470 = Radeon R5 230
- Radeon HD 7510/Radeon HD 7570 = Radeon R7 240
- Radeon HD 7670 = Radeon R7 250
- Radeon HD 7730/Radeon HD 7750/Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition = Radeon R7 260
- Radeon HD 7790 = Radeon R7 260X
- Radeon HD 7850 = Radeon R9 270
- Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition = Radeon R9 270X
- Radeon HD 7870 XT = N/A (Obsolete)
- Radeon HD 7950/Radeon HD 7950 Boost = Radeon R9 280
- Radeon HD 7970/Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition = Radeon R9 280X
- Radeon HD 7990 = R9 290/290X (No real successor since there is no dual-core GPU in the R9 200's)
As you'll notice, the R9 200 series has fewer models (13) compared to the 7000 series (18) as AMD have condensed some of the lesser cards into one successor model; it's quite easy to tell which cards are the successors as for the most part the chips have carried over the same names, just with a new suffix on the end.
The exception being the "Turks" and "Pitcairn" chips (75xx/76xx) of the 7000 series which have now become "Oland" and "Curacao" respectively (240/250 and 270/270X).
Trying to learn from NVIDIA using 3 digits? :P
I really don't need a new card just yet and I wouldn't even see the card in my box.. but damn it looks good. Almost buying it for the look of it… my 6950 is one ugly looking card.
Gigabyte R9 290 4GB - $479
http://www.itestate.com.au/pages/product/pdt_product_detail.…Next cheapest is the PowerColor 4GB R9 290 from PCCG, also $479
According to staticice, every other R9 290 is $485 and up (used to be $499 for all the other brands in PCCG)Now that this deal is over, that might be the next best thing!
Oh, it's free postage too! Didn't realise!
Better than PCCG's PowerColor R9 290!
Submitted as a deal :)Free postage for NSW metro only.
Yup, noted in the deal that's been submitted :)
Why was the deal expiry date brought forward?
Disappointed I missed out.I think they ran out of stock :(
Yep, I bought the last one. :P
Price went back to 399 the moment I finished the order.
I had an order in my cart, which went through for $349, but when I was checking the specs in a new window it was $399. Freaked out then realised it was still going through for the cheaper price.
Or at least I hope it does…
That happened to me and then I just re-added it and purchased it, immediately after the price on the page also went up.
Not sure how that works.
Order was sitting at pending for 2 days now, rang IT Estate and they confirmed they were having issues sourcing this card.
They offered to swap the order to this card instead: http://www.itestate.com.au/pages/product/pdt_product_detail.… at no additional cost.
Seeing as they're probably going to make me wait eons for the BE, I said yes over the phone.
Now I'm wondering if it was such a good idea.
I did that yesterday too. Then looked up reviews and there were a lot of "this card runs hot and the drivers aren't great" as well as "best card ever!!! Goes like a workhorse, a little loud"
…so I called again and cancelled the order. I'm sure it'll be fine, but this is my first build, so I'd rather put it back a bit and wait for the drivers and heatsinks to improve on this gen.(although, they've completely removed my order from the site, and I never got an email cancelling it - card still shows the money being held by IT estate, but not taken, so I'll give it a few days to clear before I kick off)
Expires in about 1 day and 3 hours btw.