Fudzilla: Back in late October, AMD surprised the world with quite good performer for in the high end arena, the Radeon R290X. As we mentioned at the time, it was launched at $549 + VAT, making it a very competitively priced product. Nvidia was forced to cut GTX 780 prices in response and roll out the GTX 780 Ti. We checked the usual suspects and it turns out that Newegg doesn't have a single Radeon R9 290X card available. In the meantime, in the middle of February 2014, AMD and its partners increased the price all the way to $699 for the cheapest card.
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.
Bit coin pigs buying them all out. :(