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AMD Cuts Prices Of Radeon Graphics Card To Cash On GTX 970 Memory Furor

AMD Cuts Prices Of Radeon Graphics Card To Cash On GTX 970 Memory Furor

GPUs Jan 29,2015 0

AMD and its partners have leveraged the furor surrounding the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970’s memory allocation performance, dropping prices on the high-end Radeon R9 290X. AMD hardware partners had cut the cost of the R9 290X and other graphics cards to as low as $299 around the time of the Nvidia card’s launch. But later the prices for the flagship Radeon returned to the $330 range.

Now that the Nvidia hardware’s memory design and performances are thrust into the spotlight, AMD’s seizing the opportunity with price cuts and a social media campaign o Twitter.

Meanwhile, prices for the AMD R9 290X on Newegg have dropped as low as $280 after rebates on some models, with many others selling for $310 or $320 after rebates. Prices for the Radeon R9 290 are as low as $250 after rebates.

AMD’s touting the cards’ 4GB of memory with a wide 512-bit bus.

The GTX 970 has a 256-bit bus and as Nvidia has said, it splits its 4GB of memory between a 3.5GB pool and a far slower 512MB partition. Hoever, its memory is clocked at 7.0Gbps compared to the 5.0Gbps of the Radeon cards.

Nvidia’s working on a driver to minimize potential issues.

Tags: AMD
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