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Posted by mtyson - Wed 14 Nov 2018 10:05
VideoCardz says these RX 590 cards will cost $279 and upwards with the ‘free’ games bundle.
Posted by afiretruck - Wed 14 Nov 2018 10:12
mtyson
VideoCardz says these RX 590 cards will cost $279 and upwards with the ‘free’ games bundle.

Going by the $ = £ conversion, that's a little steep. :(
Posted by evilbuffyz - Wed 14 Nov 2018 11:20
with all honesty I am thinking of switching to AMD, the reason, G-Sync, you buy a decent Geforce card then you have to fork out another 400 pounds for a decent monitor to go with the card.
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Wed 14 Nov 2018 12:35
evilbuffyz
with all honesty I am thinking of switching to AMD, the reason, G-Sync, you buy a decent Geforce card then you have to fork out another 400 pounds for a decent monitor to go with the card.

Well for me the rumoured price for this is too close to the price I could easily pay for a Vega 56. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powercolor-radeon-rx-vega-56-red-dragon-8gb-hbm2-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-193-pc.html

I would look on Black Friday to see what Vega deals you can get. Seems strange to be releasing a GPU near Black Friday when any launch price is going to look bad :)
Posted by cheesemp - Wed 14 Nov 2018 12:48
Freesync is definitely worth it. I'm using an rx480 to drive a 2k display and i'm able to game on slightly older titles (Just cause 3, sniper elite 3) with just one individual setting turned down from max and by keeping in the freesync range its so smooth. I wouldn't want to try the same on a 1060 as you'd get nasty tearing unless you could turn down the settings enough to get vsync. Its like a free speed boost vs nvidia and I don't think pushed enough.
Posted by flearider - Wed 14 Nov 2018 14:01
ohh well thought this time it might be worth upgrading my r290 ..
but not for £250-£300 .. shame .. and no I wont buy NVidia
Posted by Nobull - Wed 14 Nov 2018 14:09
DanceswithUnix
Well for me the rumoured price for this is too close to the price I could easily pay for a Vega 56. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powercolor-radeon-rx-vega-56-red-dragon-8gb-hbm2-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-193-pc.html

I would look on Black Friday to see what Vega deals you can get. Seems strange to be releasing a GPU near Black Friday when any launch price is going to look bad :)

Have to agree. These need to come in at £200 ish to make any sense.
Posted by Usernamist - Thu 15 Nov 2018 02:19
If the RX580 costs £200 or less, the RX590 needs to start at £250 to make any sense
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Thu 15 Nov 2018 07:43
Nobull
Have to agree. These need to come in at £200 ish to make any sense.

The then £200 580 wouldn't make sense :)
Posted by The Hand - Thu 15 Nov 2018 09:34
flearider
ohh well thought this time it might be worth upgrading my r290 ..
but not for £250-£300 .. shame .. and no I wont buy NVidia

If you have a r290, it would probably be worth holding on for Navi next year.. A Navi 12 for £300 or less would be a decent upgrade.
Posted by Percy1983 - Fri 16 Nov 2018 21:15
In short I have been on free upgrades due to mining, I had 2 290x's, sold one to a miner for £240, bought the RX580 from amazon for £202 (due to thread on here pointing out preorder prices), instantly sold the second 290x for £220.

So the plan is to get another RX580 cheap and essentially upgrade from 2 290x's to 2 RX580's while making a profit.
Posted by Snarf - Tue 20 Nov 2018 02:09
Yeah, either freesync or gsync are pretty much a requirement IMO for any gamer now. If you don't have it setup now definitely shoot for it with your next build/upgrade.