Why no game bundle for new AMD R series?

[GLD]

I see the new R series AMD cards are available to purchase now, but I don't see any Never Settle game bundle being included with them. I am thinking a new Sapphire R270X would be a good upgrade for my trusty 7850 2G vanilla. Any insider info if the R series will be included in the Never Settle this or that bundle?

 

[ACidBaseD]

I don't think they are going to give the bundle with these new series. Maybe with the 290 card's not sure though.

 

[suraswami]

The game bundle has become old, they are finding new games to throw it in!

lol.

AMD Radeon™ R9 Series graphics. Built to play...

may be we will see BF4 as one of the options when it is released!

 

[buildzoid]

I see the new R series AMD cards are available to purchase now, but I don't see any Never Settle game bundle being included with them. I am thinking a new Sapphire R270X would be a good upgrade for my trusty 7850 2G vanilla. Any insider info if the R series will be included in the Never Settle this or that bundle?

Dude if you get the 270X don't get rid of the 7850 because it'll CF with the 270X

 

[newtekie1]

I am thinking a new Sapphire R270X would be a good upgrade for my trusty 7850 2G vanilla.

That seems like too minor of an upgrade to be worth the effort, IMO.

I'd keep saving until you can afford at least the 280X.

Dude if you get the 270X don't get rid of the 7850 because it'll CF with the 270X

It would seem his motherboard only has one PCI-E x16 slot, so that isn't possible in his case.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

That seems like too minor of an upgrade to be worth the effort, IMO.

I'd keep saving until you can afford at least the 280X.



It would seem his motherboard only has one PCI-E x16 slot, so that isn't possible in his case.

Pick up a 7950 cheap while you can , that would be a upgrade with a bonus

 

[suraswami]

Pick up a 7950 cheap while you can , that would be a upgrade with a bonus

+1. A Few people here are selling the 7950 at throw away prices!

 

[maksic87]

New hardware requires new games, just wait and see

 

[natr0n]

Well bf4 should be added in soon.Then some of us can cash in our codes.

 

[DEFEATEST]

I dont think ive ever seen a triple A title offered in a deal soon after its release. I could be crazy too but I dont recall.....They have to make top dollar for the first while on these things.

 

[newtekie1]

I dont think ive ever seen a triple A title offered in a deal soon after its release. I could be crazy too but I dont recall.....They have to make top dollar for the first while on these things.

Yeah, but they also haven't really outdone nVidia this time, and the majority of their cards are just rebadges. So they have to do something to sweeten the deal, and AMD's bundled games have been really good lately.

 

[cadaveca]

I dont think ive ever seen a triple A title offered in a deal soon after its release. I could be crazy too but I dont recall.....They have to make top dollar for the first while on these things.

ATI gave out Half-Life2 coupons literally years before that game launched. AMD is giving away BF4 with pre-orders of the 290X, maybe just 290, too, not sure, haven't been online much this week.

And no, they do not have to make top dollar...that's what the 7-series cards were for.

 

[DEFEATEST]

When I was talking top dollar , I was referring to the game itself. Game companies like any other company want their return back fast , so you dont see them giving it away just like that and I would image AMD gets a helluva deal when they buy them in bulk like that. Funny you mentioned HL2 , my buddy gave me that coupon when he bought a nvidia card at the time about a month or two before the games release. That was the first thing I ever got on steam and what a game!!!!.......just where the fuck is HL3??????

 

[GLD]

I am a ~$200 gpu kind of guy. $299 on the R280X is a sweet price point though. The 7950 will most likely get down to the $200 mark, but the R270X vanilla preforms better then it at the lower resolutions (as in my case, 1280x1024), as seen on the review here on TPU. Then there is the Vapor-X and Toxic Sapphires that will be even better performers. I could see spending $220 on the Vapor-X over the $220 7950. The Toxic looks to long for my case though.

After this thread post, I saw and bought Sniper Elite V2 on todays Steam deal, so the Silver game bundle has nothing left that I don't already have/want. I think I will wait a bit longer in hopes of a new game bundle. The R270X Sapphire Vapor-X looks like a winner to me.

 

[newtekie1]

The thing is though, the 270X only performs on par with the 7950 because AMD upped the clocks on the 270X and they really held back on the clocks on the 7950. The 270X is just an overclocked 7870 and it seems to overclock rather poorly compared to 7870s. The 7950 is a way better card than the 270X especially when overclocked.

With the 270X you'll be lucky to get a 150MHz overclock out of the core, but the 7950 is good for at least 200MHz. And since the 7950 has more sharder each MHz is worth more on the 7950 as well. Plus you've got higher memory bandwidth with the 7950.

Since AMD did rebadging think of it like this:

270X = 7870
280 = 7950
280X = 7970

You're basically looking to spend $200 to upgrade from a 7850 to a factory overclocked 7870.

 

[Absolution]

The thing is though, the 270X only performs on par with the 7950 because AMD upped the clocks on the 270X and they really held back on the clocks on the 7950. The 270X is just an overclocked 7870 and it seems to overclock rather poorly compared to 7870s. The 7950 is a way better card than the 270X especially when overclocked.

With the 270X you'll be lucky to get a 150MHz overclock out of the core, but the 7950 is good for at least 200MHz. And since the 7950 has more sharder each MHz is worth more on the 7950 as well. Plus you've got higher memory bandwidth with the 7950.

Since AMD did rebadging think of it like this:

270X = 7870
280 = 7950
280X = 7970

You're basically looking to spend $200 to upgrade from a 7850 to a factory overclocked 7870.

Havent seen any 280 (7950) yet. Hope it comes, was planning to buy a 7950.

 

[newtekie1]

Havent seen any 280 (7950) yet. Hope it comes, was planning to buy a 7950.

I'm just speculating on the 280, but I'm guessing it will come soon.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

here's a review of the 280X, dunno if it's been posted yet.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/10/09/msi-radeon-r9-280x-ge-oc-review/1

 

[Frick]

here's a review of the 280X, dunno if it's been posted yet.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2013/10/09/msi-radeon-r9-280x-ge-oc-review/1

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_280X_Gaming/

Went live on october 8th.

 

[GLD]

Off topic, but with the members that have experimented with the AMD gpu overdrive, what do you think? Has any one cooked their card oc'ing while staying in the overdrive limits? My 7850 od has the +/- 20% power slider and goes to 1050 core and 1450 mem btw.

I know there is Sapphire Trixx ( thanks to W1zzard ! ) and Afterburner, and maybe more like them, but just curious about the built in overdrive for the AMD cards. Real world users with real world experience only please.

 

[manofthem]

Off topic, but with the members that have experimented with the AMD gpu overdrive, what do you think? Has any one cooked their card oc'ing while staying in the overdrive limits? My 7850 od has the +/- 20% power slider and goes to 1050 core and 1450 mem btw.

I know there is Sapphire Trixx ( thanks to W1zzard ! ) and Afterburner, and maybe more like them, but just curious about the built in overdrive for the AMD cards. Real world users with real world experience only please.

I prefer the overclocking utilities over AMD Overdrive; MSI AB and Trixx tend to give more options. I usually stick with MSI AB since it gives me nice OSD options and monitoring, not to mention voltage control, and for air cooling, it gives nice fan curve profiles. I don't use the powertune stuff much, haven't needed it in a long long time, but your 7850 may be different.

I think before cooking your card, the card/driver will crash if your OC is too high. For instance, my 7970 overdrive limit is 1125 for the core, but it will not hit that on stock voltage; it will crash long before damage is done.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Off topic, but with the members that have experimented with the AMD gpu overdrive, what do you think? Has any one cooked their card oc'ing while staying in the overdrive limits? My 7850 od has the +/- 20% power slider and goes to 1050 core and 1450 mem btw.

I know there is Sapphire Trixx ( thanks to W1zzard ! ) and Afterburner, and maybe more like them, but just curious about the built in overdrive for the AMD cards. Real world users with real world experience only please.

I've not messed nearly enough but so far I've got my 7970 to 1230mhz core using 120% on the power slider but that oc seams fine with it at 110 so its at that now .
So far as Aod goes its not got any useful voltage adjust besides core volts but does work and displays changes for me even when set via
Saphire trixx Afterburner or my usual use asus oc tool so it does seam to work fine to me