When Will Radeon R9 490x Come?

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Abhijit_69

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I'm Thinking Of Getting A New Gpu, And Was Thinking Of Moving To Red Team...Currently I Have 750ti.....When Will 490X Come? And Will It Be Nice?
And Will Fury X2 Have HBM-2? And Is It In Polaris Series? Do Mention If You Know Any Better Card COming... Thanks :)
 
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Of course nobody knows any of that yet, as the specific details of Polaris card models haven't even been really hinted at yet, much less released. You'll still have to wait a while if you want a future gen card from AMD.

We're going to see new cards from Nvidia before then I'd imagine.
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Of course nobody knows any of that yet, as the specific details of Polaris card models haven't even been really hinted at yet, much less released. You'll still have to wait a while if you want a future gen card from AMD.

We're going to see new cards from Nvidia before then I'd imagine.
 
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I believe that the r9 490x will perform the same as the gtx 1080 and will be significantly cheaper (100 USD). Plus we get hbm2 VRAM so that is pretty neat. Definitely worth the wait!
 
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Nvidia had HBM2 available to them but chose to go with GDDR5 and GDDR5X on the current Pascal cards, so that causes me to at least raise my eyebrows regarding the performance and advantages of HBM2. If HBM2 offered a cost effective performance gain, I'd think Nvidia would have chosen to use it.
 
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That's not how it works, cards that perform the same are the same price. If they do undercut the other company, then that company just lowers their prices. This can result in a price war, and in the end, both companies make less money, and they know that., so it doesn't really happen at all; they just make their same-performing cards the same, higher price.
 
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If anything AMD most likely don't want to undercut nvidia too much because relistically with their financial burden as it is they need to make as much as they can in term of profit. Fury X launch price at the same MSRP as 980ti and nano debut at 650 just because it is more power efficient is a clear indication that AMD also wants to make more profit. even if they cost end up significantly cheaper that nvidia they have two options: 1) priced their card at much lower price and start price war or 2) slightly undercut nvidia and make more profit for them than the first option.

Some might say doing the first option will allow them to move more unit and it might end up more profitable in the long run vs 2nd option. But the problem is nvidia will not going to sit idle. Enough threat then nvidia will also engage in price war. And this is where the problem. When it comes to price war nvidia can sustain the "war" longer than AMD did.

For those that have been following gpu stuff for quite sometime they could probably see how nvidia already giving amd the pressure slowly.
 
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