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    Quote Originally Posted by Olivon View Post
    On hardware.fr, that's not the case too.
    People are disappointed with the noise, power consumption and weak OC capabilities.
    When you know what a 780 overclocked can do, this reference 290X sounds not really interesting.
    The price is good though, hopefully, but nVidia will certainly answer with a price slash.



    http://www.hardware.fr/articles/910-...formances.html

    780 Uber is 780 stock with turbo ON. As you can see, 780 is still very well placed and the cards is way more silent and with good overclocking capabilities.
    Only flaw is price but for how long now that Hawaii is out ?
    I think it's mainly you who is not excited. I also think one has to wear real dark green glasses not to be exited if not blind.
    Even if nvidia slash the prices, the only reason is R9-290X performance/value, even people wearing light green glasses should be exited because they're going to save some money thanks to AMD.

    Now there is no way Nvidia will slash the GTX Titan price by $450, even if they do, it still will not solve the problem, many people now game on higher resolution and that's where the R9-290X is the king.

    For me this is no-brainer. I can't buy GTX Titan if it cost ONLY $549 or even less than the R9 290X. The ONLY reason I'm going to upgrade is, my next TV/monitor is going to be 39 to 50 inch 4K ultra HD, I will buy 2 cards. The R9-290X is 10 to 23% faster than GTX Titan at 4K resolution.

    Now some people might say why don't you wait for the GTX 780 Ti (who knows when that will come), OK no problem i still do not have the 4K UHD monitor. The problem is, the GTX 780 Ti has to be about 10% faster to be same as the Titan in lower resolutions, than it needs another 10-23% to be as fast as R9-290X at 4K, that's not going to be easy and who knows the NV price for that.

    HARDOCP
    Whatever magic AMD is doing at 4K, it is working. We found that the Radeon R9 290X was faster in every game compared to the GeForce GTX TITAN at 3840x2160. It wasn't just a little bit faster either, it was anywhere from 10-23% faster. This is a significant difference. At 4K resolutions, you need every bit of performance you can get to achieve playable performance at high in-game settings on a single video card. The Radeon R9 290X is clearly the card for Ultra HD 4K.
    Last edited by Heinz68; 10-24-2013 at 06:01 PM. Reason: to wrap in qoute the hardocp part
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