14 DAY TRIAL // The Radeon R9 series of graphics adapters from Advanced Micro Devices were supposed to have certain prices, but they started to sell for 20-50% more pretty fast after their respective launches.
Apparently, the sales were so good, in great part due to virtual currency miners, that there was enough leeway for price increase.
Not long ago, though, I received an e-mail in which the company let me know that prices had returned to what they were supposed to be. Or close anyway. AMD also mentioned that demand had been “astonishing.”
You can see the list in the table below. Those are supposedly the more affordable Radeon R9 270, R9 270X, R9 280, R9 280X, R9 290 and R9 290X.
The Radeon R9 295 X2 is included as well, and it looks like the EU price is of €1,230 instead of €1,500 (though the US price should still be of $1,500).
AMD promises that there won't be any price swelling like in the first quarter. The prices will remain stable. I'll be here hoping that turns out to be true.
Not that the Sunnyvale company has much to worry about at this point, not with NVIDIA basically pushing people in its direction by demanding twice the price for the same performance from the R9 295 X2-level GeForce GTX Titan Z.
