Tuesday, August 21st 2012

AMD Readies New Round of Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts
AMD is working on a new set of price-cuts for its performance-thru-enthusiast lines of GPUs, following the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660 Ti. The new pricing will take effect by the end of this week. The $299 GeForce GTX 660 Ti, as reviews show, offers higher performance per Dollar than Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, and punches above its weight, at the $349 Radeon HD 7950, prompting AMD to change its specifications by increasing core clock speed, and augmenting it with PowerTune with Boost. The resulting HD 7950 with Boost is bound to replace the older HD 7950.
When AMD's new pricing scheme takes effect, this is how the performance-enthusiast segment will shape up:
Source:
The TechReport
When AMD's new pricing scheme takes effect, this is how the performance-enthusiast segment will shape up:
- Prices of Radeon HD 7950 Boost will go down from US $349 to $319,
- Prices of Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition will go down from $299 to $249,
- Prices of Radeon HD 7850 2GB will go down to $209, and HD 7850 1GB to $189.
45 Comments on AMD Readies New Round of Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts
*sheesh*
(less snarkily: I can't imagine we'd see a price drop on these cards until christmas time. Once AMD and nVidia have their pricing set to compete against each other again, the next reason to drop is to increase the volume of sales. I see this coinciding with the holiday buying season)
I have had a blast with my 670 since getting it in May, but I want to get
another for when I upgrade my monitor hopefully eoy. I haven't read
anything about nvidia's 700 series, so I guess I wait for Christmas sales.
My point is, the HD 7970 has massive compute performance over its predecessor and Nvidia. It uses more power gaming, but that's not unreasonable considering a huge part of its design went into compute this time around.
They have lots of room to manuever price wise and compete when Nvidia GeForce 600 series finally hits the market.
Yields from AMD will be far more mature then Nvidia. The GK104 yields Nvidia is a bigger issue now that they switched from paying for working die to wafer buy model. Last 3 CCs with investors has been always that they need yields to improve on kepler.
Plus didnt AMD gain 2.5% in discrete desktop segement in Q2 ?.. That would mean it did okay for going up against Nvidia Geforce GTX 690, 680 & 670.
Nvidia is sitting on 40million of excess inventory with no buyers. Times are tough for both i guess.
To put into perspective. Nvidia made a profit of 60million in Q1.
The lower the price the better the deals.:toast:
If Nvidia only offered GTX 690/680/670 then your statement is true. The fact that they still offer Fermi and earlier based SKU's means that you can infer nothing from those individual models. If AMD gained ~2.5% against Kepler, it means that they gained ~ nothing against Fermi derivatives...kind of makes the HD 7750/7770/7850/7870 a massive flop, no? $40m is easier to liquidate than $833m... Not bad for a company supposedly getting hammered by AMD in price, price/performance I do. Premiere brand = higher average selling price = higher profit line = more $$$$ going into R&D, software support, gaming SDK's.
I don't think there is anything inferior with the hardware- I do however, feel there is something fundamentally wrong with AMD's marketing, their internal perception, and how that correlates into consumer brand awareness.
Cant make a bad die work on a lower product. Has to be in working condition first. They screwed up Llano roll out. Think they made it clear in the Q2 report. Also AMD doesnt go on and on and on complaining about 28nm yields. Since Kepler almost 1/3rd of the last 3 conference call from Nvidia go back to yield issues. Last AMD Conference Call not one word about 28nm yields. I would say the same for AMD espicially since revenue and income from Q1-Q2 is basicly flipped on percentage between Nvidia and AMD. With all the hardships AMD is still gaining market share in descrete desktop segment. Impressive considering Nvidia was up 15.3% in the segment and still lost 2.5% to AMD.
7970 is one hell of a card and yes it is bit slower but butt kicking is just exaggerating the statement.
7870 is probably the best bang for your buck. These cards overclock like monsters and are really really efficient in relation to the number of shaders it has.
I might grab one if I can find it in a month or two around 220. My friend has a 7870 and the thing almost reaches 7970 speeds running at 1200 on the core.
and gtx680 also overprice cards
sooner or later i'll buy 7970 and cf'ing them