Big flagship Radeon graphics card price cuts add pressure to GTX 970 memory furor - salinasgise1989

Surprisal! AMD and its partners have thirstily leveraged the furor close the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970's memory allocation operation and corrected specifications, falling prices on the high-end Radeon R9 290X.

The potent price-to-performance ratio of the GTX 970 forced AMD hardware partners to cut the cost of the R9 290X and other nontextual matter cards to American Samoa reduced as $299 around the time of the Nvidia card's launch. In the months since, withal, prices for the flagship Radeon have broadly crept back up to the $330-ish range—the same MSRP Eastern Samoa a stock GTX 970.

Now that the Nvidia hardware's unorthodox computer memory design and performances are thrust into the spotlight, AMD's seizing the opportunity with price cuts and a taunting social media press, such as the following tweet by AMD technical communications tether Robert Hallock.

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— Robert Hallock (@Thracks) January 28, 2022

Meanwhile, prices for the AMD R9 290X on Newegg have born as low as $280 later on rebates on some models, with many others marketing for $310 operating room $320 subsequently rebates. Prices for the stepped-down, but still very potent Radeon R9 290 are as low as $250 aft rebates. Those are incredibly powerful prices for graphics card game that deliver performance nearly happening equivalence with the GTX 970 at 1080p and 2560×1600 resolution. To a lesser degree six months ago the R9 290X was selling for $500.

AMD's touting the cards' 4GB of memory with a very wide 512-bit bus, which creates a large frame polisher for the R9 290-series cards. That makes them ideal for gaming at high resolution with anti-aliasing settings cranked to the max.

The GTX 970 has a 256-bit busbar and, as information technology turns out, splits its 4GB of memory between a speedy 3.5GB pool and a far slower 512MB partition. (Its memory is clocked at 7.0Gbps compared to the 5.0Gbps of the Radeon cards, however.) Though you'd be calculating-pressed to coax a game into using more than 3.5GB of RAM under normal single monitor scenarios, GTX 970 users are running into stuttering and frame pace issues when they do have to get at that small memory pool.

Nvidia's working on a device driver to downplay electric potential issues. (Redact: None it isn't, obviously. The Nvidia employee who aforesaid a number one wood was coming has edited his post to take out the claim.) The performance collision exhibited when the GTX 970 taps that 512MB section doesn't seem to be of import, especially when you consider that in common scenarios you'd already need to force games falling tounplayable systema skeletale rates before you crossed the 3.5GB memory threshold, as PC Perspective's testing found.

We'd still heartily recommend the GTX 970, especially for the Leontyne Price. The carte's a beast disregarding how it handles memory allocation. But TechPowerUp reports that "perfectly functional" GTX 970s are being returned in Europe for "simulated advertising."

It's those disillusioned buyers that AMD hopes to sway to Team Red—and a Radeon R9 290x for under $300 is a very tantalizing offer so.

Anyone returning their GTX970 and inadequate very much on a Radeon with a full 4GB please let US have it away. @NVIDIAGeForce @stoakley
— Roy@AMD (@amd_roy) January 28, 2022