Wednesday, September 12th 2012
AMD Prepares Yet Another Round of Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts
With NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 660 and GTX 650 threatening to make things messy in the sub-$250 market, and competitive pricing between NVIDIA partners with high-end SKUs, AMD is preparing yet another round of price cuts to its Radeon HD 7000 GPU series. Its last round followed the launch of GeForce GTX 660 Ti. According to the source, this is what AMD's lineup could look like, when it's done resetting prices:
Source:
Softpedia
- Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition - starts at $430
- Radeon HD 7970 standard - starts at $410
- Radeon HD 7950 Boost - starts at $300
- Radeon HD 7950 standard - starts at $290
- Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition - starts at $240
- Radeon HD 7850 2 GB - starts at $200
31 Comments on AMD Prepares Yet Another Round of Radeon HD 7000 Series Price Cuts
Great news!
(290$ for an HD7950... fu*k)
:roll:
I won't be buying it, except to use for review purposes. I actually won't use the 7-series cards that I have already, in my gaming rig, until I get new ones for the testing rig, at which point I'll give my son the 6950's, and then use the three or four 7950's to game with.
I actualyl want two more cards; I ahve two for testing now, but I need to set up 2 rigs, one for memory reviews, that all use the same board, and one for motherboard testing, where the board and CPUs change.
I do one of each every week now, and being able to test two rigs at once would go a long way to increasing my productivity. Now, a day doesn't go by without my having put in at least 4 hours of work towards reviews, Sunday to Saturday.
This is what competition does people, consumers win!!!
It appears popular skus are headed toward capturing key price-points because they may not be covered next gen vs the competing nvidia parts. ex: 8700 (or whatever places 7700) may not compete with 660, but rather 650ti/650, so they are preemptively matching 660 with the 7870 price knowing the upcoming series' will sit above and below 7850 (ie 150 and 200, 7850 somewhere between). Same with 7950 going after the 670 market for the 660ti price (I think 8800 will take on 660ti/680 for 660/670 cash). While the nvidia prices may adjust to AMD's and deflate, amd looks to be easing 7000 into new brackets to introduce 8000 while keeping 7000 relevant now and in that time of flux versus the competition.
I do hope the next series have the more expensive cards again, kinda sucks if a top model is that cheap. People want to show off aswell
Hopefully they take note of their sales history and give us good pricing from the start next round :cool: Please, don't breed. :nutkick:
But if you really would want a 2 card setup, another 7970 would be the way to go.