Wut Do?
Yeah... be smart and wait for it. Don't be like me. I bought an ASUS gtx 670, there were rumours of the next series coming up, they got announced like a week or so later and when they got out, their perfomance was much better than my 670 for the price i paid for it. For instance, i could have bought a 760 which is nearly equivalent and save like what 100-150 bucks?
My original plan was to buy a 690 but... investing that much money into a gpu could be a bad thing.
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the question is what for ... and in which built, either gpu drains a lot of wattage - but yeah if the "leaked info" about the 390x is correct the r295x2 will still beat it ... (personally running 2 AMD GPU's r9 270x 2gb /r9 280x 3GB in 2 different pc's- those will do for a while)
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Personally I would rather either wait or get slower GTX 980 which is cheaper (even compared to this sale), has several times lower power consumption and it's a single card. Or GTX 970 SLI might be good alternative to r295x2 since it's still cheaper with much lower power consumption and with same performance. But I'd still wait...
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I'm actually deciding between 980 TI vs 390x, they're going to be release in a month time. If the 390x performance disappoints, might get the 980 TI instead, of even the Titan X. There are rumors that nvidia might want to cripple 980TI a little bit to make the Titan X more appealing.
Also lol at GTX 970 sli. 3.5GB vs 8GB. It's not future proof at all. (VRAM don't stack, 295x2 has a native shared 8gb between 2 cards)
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Yeap, I was right: http://www.pcgamer.com/mantle-directx12-could-seriously-boost-multi-gpu-performancewith-a-little-help-from-game-devs/
Unless you use Mantle, it's normal 2x4GB card
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Well, thanks for the quick opinions. After seeing that a lot of votes saying to wait, I decided to not get the anymore.
First, It's a dual GPU setup. Despite it being using XDMA Crossfire (instead of the old bridge, massive improvement on frame pacing) It's still going to be a nightmare for newly release AAA games if AMD don't have a profile for it.
Second, I can get r9 290x for $250 so crossfiring those is enough to beat r9 295x2, with a downside that it has only 4GB, while the r9 295x2 is 8gb so it's more future proof. As well as temp levels would be lower in 295x2
Third, I just decided that If I'm going to shell out $600+ on a card, I'd rather pay for the latest gpu series.
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Technology degrades so much faster these years... as people have stated, just wait for the new one or go for a cheaper SLI/Crossfire setup, you didn't mention what card do you have now (but I read it later) but a R9 290X can handle pretty well all the new games at 1080p 60fps (I think it would be a nice crossfire to your 270X or just buying two 290X), also the majority use just 3 GB of VRAM and by the time they will need more the 8 GB cards will be much cheaper.
I'm eager to see what the new AMD cards look like, maybe at E3 since AMD will have a presentation this year in the PC conference?
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I'm super fucking tempted at this.
http://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-PCI-Express-Graphics-21234-00-40G/dp/B00JS8JRHW
$620 for a r9 295x2, and it's 1 month away before the r9 390x is revealed/released.
Do you think this is a good buy or no? I'm estimating that the r9 390x won't be able to edge r9 295x2, but it will be close.
On other hand, r9 390x is a single GPU while r9 295x2 is dual gpu. Games that won't play with nicely with crossfire is going to suck
AAAGgGhHh, I'm going crazy at this. The deal may not last for longer so I need to decide lol. It ships to Canada free so no problemo there.
EDIT:
Well, thanks for the quick opinions. After seeing that a lot of votes saying to wait, I decided to not get the anymore.
First, It's a dual GPU setup. Despite it using an XDMA Crossfire (instead of the old bridge, massive improvement on frame pacing) It's still going to be a nightmare for newly release AAA games if AMD don't have a profile for it.
Second, I can get r9 290x for $250 so crossfiring those is enough to beat r9 295x2, with a downside that it has only 4GB, while the r9 295x2 is 8gb so it's more future proof. As well as temp levels would be lower in 295x2
Third, I just decided that If I'm going to shell out $600+ on a card, I'd rather pay for the latest gpu series.
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