Maximum PC: Last month AMD launched the Radeon R9 290X GPU, and overall it went very well for AMD as the card was heralded for its incredible price-to-performance ratio compared to Nvidia's top silicon. Shortly after the launch however, a few media outlets got ahold of some retail boards and found them to be much slower than the cards sent to them by AMD. Naturally, people suspected foul play, but AMD insisted it was just a driver issue, in that retail boards and press boards were using different fan speeds, thus delivering different levels of performance. It quickly issued a new driver with Catalyst 13.11 Beta 9.2 and we decided to test and see what the problem was, how the press board differed from the retail board, and whether AMD's latest drive resolved the issue.
ASW is now on Radeon R9 Fury series, Radeon R9 390 series and Radeon R9 290 series.
AMD is making all the right moves as of late.
glad to see they not letting existing customers out to dry and force them to buy newer GPUs to get these upgrades.
Maximum PC: What do you do when you see your enemy twisting in the wind? You strike, of course, and that's exactly what AMD predictably decided to do as rival Nvidia goes into damage control concerning the memory controversy on its GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. AMD and its partners have lowered the price of their Radeon R9 290X graphics cards to as low as $280 after rebate, or $300 without.
Fudzilla: We got word from sources close to AMD that the Radeon 290, 290X and R9 280 are getting a price drop in order to fight Nvidia's new Maxwell based Geforce GTX 970 and 980 cards. The Radeon R9 290X has dropped from the original launch price of $549 to $399 and the Radeon R9 290 has come down from $399 to $299. These are the prices you get at the top e-tailers in the US.
Something smells fishy. Will be interesting to see how AMD concludes it's "investigation."