Monday, December 19th 2011
Radeon HD 7970 Listed by European Retailer
Dutch online retailer Comcom.nl couldn't hold its rocks, and listed the upcoming Radeon HD 7970 on its site. Listed, was an ASUS-branded card (with no pictures, of course), so it could be a paper listing for pre-orders. Comcom is asking €482.11 for this card before applicable taxes, about €573.71 with them. Disturbing as the pricing looks, it endorses speculated North American pricing of US $550 (pre-tax) for these cards. In its listing the retailer mentions the card's model number as HD7970-3GD5, and as having 3 DVI connectors, 1 HDMI, and two mini-DP.
37 Comments on Radeon HD 7970 Listed by European Retailer
£600 is far too much and simply won't sell. £450-500 seems more realistic for first time adopters lowering to under £400 for the main release.
Portrait Eyefinity needs MOAR power and I don't want to run CF/SLI so I NEED this card.... :D
Although things can change before release they have in the past. But usually they don't change that often.
If it were Kepler I would have more info since we are a Nvidia licensed whole saler.... but with AMD/ATI it is always sketchy for me to get a handle on.
€500 is around £420 and tax on that about £84 but then with limited availability i have no faith in retailers not bumping the price like with the 58xx cards thus my expectation of £500+.
Is this gona beat 6990 and GTX 590? well at least price is close - minor preformance increas and major price jum - is this the way the new GPU generations will arriver? who need old days when there were preformance jump and close to nothing price increase!
You go AMD - let them pay for overall discret GPU decline, overall economy slump, 40nm to 28nm transition delay, Bulldozer and other sh_it - who else is going to cash for that???
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shit, dunno if it worth
To expensive for my taste, but can't argue the price point.