AMD’s R9 290X Priced at $729.99 on Newegg.com

Updated: October 3, 2013

Now that we know that the AMD R9 290X is coming, the next big question was how much does the damn thing cost, and well that news has just hit. Newegg.com is the first e-tailor to have an actual price and item to match as the MSI R9 290X has been priced at $729.99 conforming finally a price of the new card.

This price is not the so-called “official” price, but rather a hidden price inside the actual HTML code. The suggested retail price is just that at the moment and real pricing may be in the $699.99 range as Newegg pads their pricing between $10-30 on the suggested price.

If this should hold true then the card will most likely sell at around $699.99, but they will want to keep the actual price a secret until sales launch day. The thing is AMD themselves have not released this price so it is subject to change at any given moment, which also gives AMD the flexibility to change it to whatever they feel is best upon the time of its release. Original price rumors showed the card at about $599.99, but now it seems AMD may want just a little more for their cards then we had anticipated, but nothing as of now is written in stone.

Here is where things get a bit sticky and tricky though, because at this price point the R9 290X is actually $50.00 more expensive than a GTX 780 and this can only work for them if the card really kicks the GTX 780 ass in the scores. If not AMD fans will be sorely pissed as the card is supposed to be the Titan killer. AMD needs to make sure that this card is priced correctly as this can make or break this launch for them. At least for now we have a reference price point to go off of, but who knows maybe AMD will surprise us all and have really good pricing ensuring their fans get what they want and deserve after waiting so long. Thanks for reading Tech Of Tomorrow. So how does this price sound to you so far, let us know in our mini poll below where your thoughts and opinions matter the most.

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Mathieu Lafreux

I would like to see EVGA make a model out of this card. I like the look of the reference, but as always it’s never available anywhere.
- fa
  
  …….it’s an AMD card……………………………….
- Tövar Björn
  
  EVGA = NVDIA and ASUS >> EVGA
  - Kris
    
    Dont forget to add “in my opinion”
  - Andrey I. Dorofeev
    
    First of, fail at spelling NVidia. Second, EVGA also has AMD/ATI cards…. so your statement is invalid.
    - failfish
      
      “EVGA also has AMD/ATI cards”.
      
      Fail. Your comment is invalid.
      - Andrey I. Dorofeev
        
        Not really a fail…. I’m not going to have an argument over the internet with someone who has failfish for their name. I conclude that since you have “fail” in your name, you must be a failure.
      - Serpent of Darkness
        
        EVGA is a dedicated vendor to NVidia. They wouldn’t switch because they are in direct competition with Asus and XFX. Sure, selling AMD cards from EVGA would increase their revenue returns because they are selling towards two consumer-bases instead of one, but EVGA gets premium units from NVidia over others. When EVGA cards are release to the open market, they are better binned than others. ROG is similar to EVGA, but they get better units from both AMD and Nvidia, and this is part of the reason why Asus is higher on the food chain versus EVGA. Asus spreads out into other markets that EVGA doesn’t. This is another reason why EVGA isn’t greater than Asus… Asus has more sources of revenue returns. They sell Sound Cards, monitors, headsets, mouses, keyboards, custom-made Asus Desktops and Laptops… EVGA only focuses on PSU, Videocards, mainly?…
      - Andrey I. Dorofeev
        
        I am sure I will still be getting comments saying EVGA only has NVidia after this comment but I know. I already looked into it and read some info. I was mistaken for another aftermarket vendor of the video cards. I cannot recall the name of it at the moment, but it must have looked similar to what EVGA makes since I got them mixed up. Anyways, I did hear EVGA was good, as well as XFX (Pretty much same as EVGA, just with AMD/ATI instead of NVidia?) and stuff. But I do prefer ASUS for most of the products. Yes, I believe that EVGA only focuses on PSU and GPUs. Even though, I would consider their primary market to be the GPUs and not both.
    - Ryan BurnsRed
      
      I don’t think EVGA has AMD cards. I’ve never seen one. And if they did, they don’t anymore.
      - Andrey I. Dorofeev
        
        I thought I saw AMD/ATI cards. Strange. :/
jimmy895

Waiting for MSI aftermarket, benchmarks, and to see if Mantle takes off.
g0ggy

Really looking forward to the benchmarks of these cards. If the price for the GTX 770 drops then I might buy myself a second card and SLi those bad boys.

I love me some competition on the market
- JT Drew
  
  Well they would have to if they have a card like that on the market that’s better than the titan for less cost. They have to change all sorts of prices.
  - g0ggy
    
    Let’s first see some real game benchmarks and not those synthetic benchmarks, then we can talk about prices
    - Andrey I. Dorofeev
      
      I rarely see real life results talked about when there is an argument over which is better. Either between Intel and AMD CPUs or NVidia, Intel HD (Which we all know is a failure), and AMD/ATI. I always see people post links to articles and blogs with synthetic benchmark results. In my opinion, AMD is better for both, CPU and GPU. I’ve had much better experiences with AMD than Intel, so I speak from past experiences and not just being a fanboy of AMD.
      - JT Drew
        
        I would of chosen an AMD cpu if I wasn’t doing graphic designs on my pc. I rather have intel and I have no problems. I might by an AMD however, I’m leaning towards a 770 due to price but we’ll see how prices change.
      - Andrey I. Dorofeev
        
        Well from personal experience, and from hearing it from others as well. If you are comparing similar spec CPUs from AMD and Intel, intel renders a few seconds faster. Personally, to me, I wouldn’t pay an extra $200+ just for 3 seconds faster render time. And for advice, I wouldn’t mix AMD with NVidia. From my personal experience, AMD works best with AMD/ATI cards. While intel is better of with NVidia cards.
    - JT Drew
      
      Fair enough XD
Guest

ummm dat price…can we all assume that the 780 still wins even with like 5 less FPS?
- g0ggy
  
  Why should you assume that?
  
  There are no benchmarks out yet. Only then you can compare.
- harvest
  
  We don’t even know the performance yet, that’s like saying sandwich x must taste better than sandwich y even though you haven’t tasted y yet.
DavId Valladares

I do really hope AMD puts some real pressure on their competition, I am getting tired of complacency *cough*INTEL*cough*
- http://www.kubuntu.org/ Lilian A. Moraru
  
  Why are you hating on Intel?
  Intel is the most moral company in the IT industry.
  You don’t even realize how much Intel contributed to the world we are living currently(I am a developer, it’s my job to know what’s happening in the IT world). Standards, Open-Source code, Open technologies, enormous financial and men power contribution to the open ecosystem.
  
  Advanced Micro Devices is an awful company. I can tell you a lot of stories of dirty things AMD did and does but I have to write an entire book if I do.
  As a start point: They added an extra EEPROM to the I2C bus into their HDMI cables so they can check with their video cards if you use their cable, if yes than they allow you, otherwise, if it’s not an AMD HDMI cable than they intentionally block it.
  So, if you want for example to buy an HDMI cable to watch movies on your TV from the Laptop for example than unless you buy an AMD cable you won’t be able to use it with an AMD video card.
  And there are a lot of other jaw dropping stories. I recommend you to get informed…
  - DavId Valladares
    
    I am just saying that they need more competition from AMD because they became very complacent. I still appreciate them as a company.
    - http://www.kubuntu.org/ Lilian A. Moraru
      
      Intel is not one of those companies that use the advantage they have to increase prices and destroy competition.
      They get bigger and get to do bigger things…
      
      I’ve never thought in my life they would open their commercial software products to developers(that were costing ~3k $).
      
      Now when they started doing better on the hardware front they contributed their Cilk+(the best multi-threading solution for developers currently) to GCC and LLVM, 2 open source projects that directly compete with their commercial compiler(which by the way they give it up for free if you use it for non-commercial purposes).
      Actually, in the last 2-3 years their contribution to the community is just overwhelming.
      
      I don’t see any problem here. AMD were always about putting more money into their pockets. Intel is more about improving the world while still evolving economically…
      I would not be against a monopoly from this companies: Intel, Valve, RedHat and Mozilla. This companies contribute more and more if they grow more and more…
Greg Reavis

Waiting for release before I make my decision. If it absolutely takes the 780 out back and shoots it like Old Yeller, then yea that price is fits in nicely. If not, then no I will be shouting betrayal. All we can do now is wait and see the final results.
K Hype

I wonder if this is a lot stronger than Evga GTX 780 Superclocked. The GTX 780 is $650 and this is $729.99.
Octavio Quintana

I will just wait for Maxwell and then I will decide which one to buy
- Serpent of Darkness
  
  Knowing NVidia, they will come out with a partial Maxwell in 2014. Seen it with Fermi on the GTX 400 Series, and the full version was the 500 series. It’s done on GTX Titan (2688 CC) and 780 (2304 CC). Even Titan Ultra (2866 CC) won’t be a full Titan because a full Titan would be a Quantro K6000 Card (2880) in Cuda Core Count. Odds are Maxwell won’t be a full Maxwell in mid 2014. I’m waiting for AMD’s tenefire 2.0 with double the streaming cores on a 22 nm node with that 16 additional computing cores in series… Possibly with improvements made to any possible PCIe-Lane Crossfire…
AMDfanboyNVIDIAfanboy

I’m a fanboy of both AMD and NVIDIA. So if this beat the shit out of the 780 then I think I better be saying goodbye to my old granny then.
- DurkaDerper
  
  The price is about the same as 780 and I’m guessing (GUESSING) this maybe a bit faster
  - Thuan Duong
    
    I love AMD because of their price, if it just be the same I will buy 780 instead (because nvidia has physx)
    Jus my opinion
    - DurkaDerper
      
      Be aware of AMD Mantle, if you’re a Battlefield Fan go for the AMD card. Mantle is less about visual and more about performance (At the time of writing about a 15-20% boost over Direct X) which gives an edge to amd on supported games
Jarmentra

Anybody check the source recently and see a price of 9999.99? I think they thought we wouldn’t notice lol
kyle

*$1000 every where else in the world
Damitrious M Tucker

i bet no one watched the AMD conference to understand this out performs the titan, i suggest you guys go watch it.
Serpent of Darkness

Elric, you should get a bench on this done, asap, for single and Crossfire setups. Also, address how they fixed Frame Time Latency/Variance (whatever method you decide to discuss runt-frames) in your video, and focus on the possibility of having a PCIe-based Crossfire with 50 Giga-transfers per sec. There’s no Crossfire Bridge-connector on the RX9-290. So, AMD must have figured out a way to make it work through the PCIe Lanes.
For those of you asking the question about the performance of GTX 780 versus GTX Titan Versus 7970 GHZ versus RX9-290. Look at it from this point of view. The GTX Titan and GTX 780 have a performance difference of 15.2%. 7970 GHZ versus RX9-290, the performance difference is roughly 37.5%. The RX9-280 has a smaller gap with the RX9-290 because it’s base clock with turbo is 1267 MHz, dropping it down to 19.38%. There is only a 10.0% to 15.0% performance gap between the old 7970 GHZ and the GTX 780. If the performance of the RX9-290 is more than twice the performance of the 7970 GHZ, the RX9-290, theoretically, it will surpass the GTX 780. Even the RX9-280, which is a 15% performance increase over the 7970 GHZ, will be the GTX 780′s equivalent, or better if you compute the possible 10 to 30% OC headroom that’s associated with AMD Graphic Cards. For example, the RX9-280 could possibly see OC frequencies of 1400 Mhz core with a water-cooling setup.
Sadly though, correlations between FPS and SP on AMD side, isn’t as refined as NVidia’s correlations… I suspect this is more to do with the fact that AMD Cards, still need a lot of work, or there just issues with the GCN. The AMD cards were originally are more tuned for DirectCompute and OpenGL. NVidia is more optimized and scales better with old school APIs…
Thuan Duong

the price is so high, AMD really need to improve physx, otherwise i’m not gonna pay $730 for that card, stay with my 7950
Just my opinion.
- Devin Wolfe
  
  Physx is just a gimmick.
  - Lewap
    
    Borderlands 2 is much funnier with PhysX on
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