The best time to release is 5-7 days before BF4 launch since everybody and his grandmother would want the card working in his PC when they get the game.
I said earlier that the best time to release R290/R290X is with Battlefield 4's retail release. Send a copy to reviewers with the cards and have it release on the 29th.
It's the benchmark of the year and the game that moves the most hardware, assuming they sweep the benchmarks for the game with the 290 cards which you'd assume with them having the official video cards of the game, it's the smartest time to release the cards.
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The best time to release is 5-7 days before BF4 launch since everybody and his grandmother would want the card working in his PC when they get the game.
You keep defending and excuse their bad ways. So bella was obviously right.
Your blind devotion to a brand causes you to become offended over perceived slights that are not there.
Let's not kid ourselves, we know where you both stand, so i'm not sure why you would even say something like this.
I think this 290X launch has been pretty silly (especially the pre-order), but it's whatever.
Let's not kid ourselves, we know where you both stand, so i'm not sure why you would even say something like this.
to remind you nvidia cleared the NDA on GTX 480 on mar 26, 2010 and retail availability was apr 12, 2010. in this case AMD is actually going to have a lesser gap between NDA expiry and retail availability
your attempt at ridiculing AMD is pathetic. :thumbsdown:
I don't understand the secrecy. If I had droves of people waiting to buy something I'm selling I'd keep them somewhat up to date on when you could give me your money. Hell it's like they are trying their best to fend off customers.
When was the last time a company made people preorder blindly without any specs, performance or any price?
And we are already in mid october. Using the term mid to late essentially means they got no date.
AMD cleared NDA on the HD7970 22nd december, but you couldnt buy one until january 8th or something. But its completely irrelevant in this case. Paper launches are one thing. At least with paper launches you know price, performance and specs. The 290X so far have been nothing but an utter PR disaster and alienating of anyone but the most diehard fanboys. Distributors cant be happy either. Newegg wont even take preorders.
You should really read twice what you write
The best time to release is 5-7 days before BF4 launch since everybody and his grandmother would want the card working in his PC when they get the game.
You keep defending and excuse their bad ways. So bella was obviously right.
You keep saying Bella. Who is that?
Those leaked benches already show 290X faster than Titan and 290 faster than 780. So I'm going with they already have Battlefield 4 performance on the lock. They just need to price these cards sensibly now. I hope they are not going for $700/$550 or something silly. $450-$500 290/$600 290X sounds more realistic, or preferably $400/$550, but I doubt they will be that cheap.
I am wondering if some bug was found by reviewers (driver or otherwise) that AMD is fixing before reviews come out. It would explain the push in NDA release. But since the actual release date for the card was already some time in the future, it is not being pushed.
My yesterday’s post about the launch date caused a huge misunderstanding on multiple forums. So let me rephrase what I wanted to say and hopefully this will clear things a bit. The R9 290X will not launch tomorrow, instead it will launch around October 24th, while R9 290 should arrive on October 31st (both dates are just rumors, but a very good ones).
I was also told that October 15th, which was an NDA date in the slides leaked by Donanim Haber (and no, we didn’t made that up), was just a milestone, which was later updated by AMD during the GPU 14 event. Apparently they didn’t update it on time and it somehow made its way to the web. So technically it was postponed, but AMD will just say it was never meant to be launched on this date. Instead they will just claim it’s right on track and the schedule has not changed (of course it didn’t, but we never learned the official launch date).
Just noticed how asymmetrical her face is