Absurd Minds

Okay, I'm posting this here because I am wanting to upgrade my graphics card and have been eyeing the 390 since release... until I saw this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 38566&SID=

The rebate and the promo brings the price down to $276, which is impressive.

I took a look at raw numbers, FLOPs / stream processors / other shit and this was better than the 390 in every aspect.

Coming from a 270X both will be great improvement of performance, but which one would be better? I won't benefit from 8GB VRAM as much as the better performance that the 290X will provide.

Any thoughts? I'm leaning towards this 290X card.

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It's not $276 any more

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Honey Badgers have very tough skin. The skin is very thick and rubbery, which is almost impervious to arrow and spears. Even a blow from machete can't scratch the skin. The skin protects them from bites.

Still $276. It doesn't include the rebate on the price listed.

$400 - $60 off - $30 rebate - 10% off = $276

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Just bought it. Totally worth the price tag.

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if only their drivers were better, and worked better for GO

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I'm so official, like a dealer with a pistol or referee with a whistle.

AMD?

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Honey Badgers have very tough skin. The skin is very thick and rubbery, which is almost impervious to arrow and spears. Even a blow from machete can't scratch the skin. The skin protects them from bites.

ati

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I'm so official, like a dealer with a pistol or referee with a whistle.

Both are the same company.

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"People say that time flies but you keep breaking its wings..."

ATI the name was kept from up to 2010 and now has been retired, so I guess newcomers to the tech field are unaware of the ATI moniker.

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ATI was its own brand/name and was bought/renamed in 2010.

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