AMD

[John P. Myers]

Sooo...it's the 15th and Z is wondering where the hell his case of R9-290Xs is...

Yeah...seems AMD is having issues and changed the launch date. Fortunately though, it's still soon, the 24th or maybe the 18th. Not even AMD seems to know which :/ eTailers and review sites are also under orders to keep quiet until then.

Remember the R9-290 and R9-290X are the only new GPUs. The 280X on down, which you can buy right now, are all 7000 series rebrands, the 280X being the 7970 GHz Edition.

[Fire$torm]

Sooo...it's the 15th and Z is wondering where the hell his case of R9-290Xs is...

Yeah...seems AMD is having issues and changed the launch date. Fortunately though, it's still soon, the 24th or maybe the 18th. Not even AMD seems to know which :/ eTailers and review sites are also under orders to keep quiet until then.

Remember the R9-290 and R9-290X are the only new GPUs. The 280X on down, which you can buy right now, are all 7000 series rebrands, the 280X being the 7970 GHz Edition.

So which are cheaper, the older 7xxx or their "R" clones?

[John P. Myers]

So which are cheaper, the older 7xxx or their "R" clones?

Pretty much the same price +- $10. At least on Newegg the 280Xs seem to be $10 cheaper than the 7970GEs ($300 vs. $310). However if you're in the market for a used 7970GE, those can be found even cheaper, while there are no used 280Xs yet, so that could save some money

Edit
@Mumps: Nope, no die shrink. Same 28nm as before. Last i heard TSMC won't be making the new 20nm wafers in useful quantity until June, but i'm not sure how AMD will handle that. It's too soon to release a "next gen" model based on the new die shrink, and at the same time there's no way they'd throw away the chance to release a "next gen" based on the new die shrink. I see release delays in the future...

Unlike Nvidia, AMD did tweak the original 7000 series chips a little for use in the Rx series, and based on compute benchmarks from Anandtech, the 280X seems to be 1-5% faster (though usually closer to 1%).