When are the custom R9 290X's due out? First I heard last week of November, now I'm hearing it could be January with some manufacturers. Does anyone know?
I'm not sure even the AIB partners know at this point. It's getting ridiculous that they're still not out.
Ridiculous you say? Nope; mimimal time they need to do custom boards is 6 weeks after ref designs come out.
We are almost to the 6 week point. People will go well 280/780 Ti had non-ref designs from the beginning.
That's because they are not new cards; 280 is rebadge and respun 7970s; and 780 Ti is just fully activated 780.....they've had them for while; they know what to do with them.
Given how long it's taking, I'm assuming they are working hard to see how much they can cheap out without increasing in-warrantee RMAs too much.
They basically had this down to a science by September 2012 for the 7970 and 7950.
If you want a good board, history would suggest you get a reference model now, before they bring out the less power efficient bins of the chip on aftermarket coolers.
When you are on air cooling, power efficiency matters a ton because you can only effectively dissipate so much wattage in the heatsink area allotted.
This will be especially the case for such a high actual TDP chip like 290 and 290x, which are probably 400w+ (full board power) TDP at max stock boost clocks if there wasn't such a thing as Powertune.
People will go well 280/780 Ti had non-ref designs from the beginning.
That's because they are not new cards; 280 is rebadge and respun 7970s; and 780 Ti is just fully activated 780.....they've had them for while; they know what to do with them.
Considering that people have been using the existing TwinFrozr III coolers from the 6950 and 7950s on the 290s and 290Xs, arguing that at least 6 weeks is required to make slight alterations for the VRM and ram (same as 780 Ti non-reference which are due out on the 29th, in 4 weeks) is absurd... Is it any surprise that AMDs continual fumbles during the last few months have caused them to lose market share in Q3? The release of the Hawaii chips with an abysmal cooling solution and then failing to provide after-market solutions in a timely manner is going to ensure that AMD continues to lose market share this quarter. It seems that this company just refuses to learn from its mistakes...
They have to go through QA testing and such you know. I also wonder if the last-minute R9 290 fanspeed change had something to do with it.
According to that graph nVidia has lost more market share year over year than AMD has.
But the R9 290 has nothing to do with overall market share. Top end cards amount to a few percent of total GPU sales at the best of times.
You mean like how the preorders for the 290X were going to start on Oct 3 without any product specifications and then were delayed to October 15? Then proceed to delay the 290 launch? All the while stringing along the customer base and suggesting that they are launching a product that will "ridicule" the Titan only to discover that the cards are within margin of error? AMDs marketing department has oversold and under-delivered for too long. Such tactics may be worthwhile if they were the frontrunner in this industry but the truth is that Nvidia is dominating the market with nearly 2/3 the market share in discrete graphics.
Ultimately, AMD has failed to deliver products for the mainstream population for this holiday season. They failed on both the graphics and CPU fronts this year. The delayed launch of Kavari to Q1 '14 and the mainstream versions of the Hawaii chips being delayed to either within a week of Christmas or after ensures that consumers go with their competitors this holiday season. The only only competitive products that AMD has on the market are now 2 years old and are at the end of their life cycle and Nvidia has successfully countered their prices and added a better gaming bundle for the holiday season why AMD continues to hold onto the same promo with the same games that have been available for nearly a year. If this isn't intentional hemorrhaging then I am unsure what else it could possibly be... It seems that in efforts to provide ample supply for the PS4 and Xbox One, AMD has successfully forfeited the PC market.
oints to the title of this thread: Please stay on topic.
Seems you missed the AIB launch projections that were embedded within that post :whiste:
According to that graph nVidia has lost more market share year over year than AMD has.
Seems you misunderstand that the 290/290X and 780 ti launches had no impact whatsoever on those quarterly postings. Not one whit. Esp. since the above quoted reported quarter, the one you're so "proud" of that AMD lost share in, closed September 28th, well before the release of the 290/290X and the GTX 780 Ti.
It is starting to be wierd that no 290/290X custom is even annouced. The holidays is not exactly far away.
Considering that that graph was posted to illustrate how AMD will continue Q3s losses into Q4 because, like Q3, it still has no viable counter to Nvidia's lineup.The only claim I made to the the Q3 results was due to the lack of a new product for 2 years from AMD(also showed how how the 7790 was easily countered at the beginning of Q3). But then again, that would actually require you to comprehend what you read now wouldn't it?
The GTX 780 had no competition in Q3.At the risk of going even more off topic, what you are stating is simply not true. If you want to argue untruths about what GPU's can compete, start a new topic for it.
This thread is for custom R9's.
Man I'm sick of waiting. If there's no news or rumors by the 1st week of December I'll probably just order a pair of reference cards.