Friday, April 13th 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7900, HD 7700 Series Price Cuts En Route: Report
Despite losing its competitive edge to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680, for various reasons AMD was rather slow in adjusting prices of its Radeon HD 7900 series SKUs, the HD 7970 and HD 7950. We are now learning that AMD is preparing the first round of price cuts for its flagship graphics card lineup, since the advent of NVIDIA's Kepler architecture. A Kitguru report pits price cuts of Radeon HD 7970 as much as by US $60 (from $549 to "as low as" $489). The price of HD 7950, on the other hand, is expected to go down by as much as US $55 (that's from $449 to $394). There's also a small price cut in store for Radeon HD 7770, which according to the report, could go down by $15.
Source:
Kitguru
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EDIT: Actually, I just looked up a European retailer, and the retail price for a GTX 680 was 499€, while the retail price for a 7970 was 460-470€. I guess that's because of supply shortage on the GTX 680. So this must mean that Nvidia is getting more cards out there or what?
The powercolor is fine
On topic, yay maybe this means I might go with a 7770 for the tessellation performance over the 6870 then, if the price drops enough.
www.hardocp.com/article/2012/04/10/sapphire_hd_7970_oc_edition_video_card_review/1
Now that's right under the chart that shows power consumption of the 5 titles B-M, and the GTX680 averages like 6.7% better nobody's loosing on any real reasons, because Nvidia has sh!t in the channel and may well not for whoever knows.
If AMD cuts prices say the 10% being said here (though I doubt that much) that must mean AMD is foreseeing getting decent production from TSMC. So now they implement the normal pricing reductions that normally offered after 6 mo's in the market. It just tells me AMD hasn’t felt threatened by a GTX680 because; the $500 price was a one-time release, Nvidia AIB’s will ask way more for customs, and they've had zero products in the channel and it looks like now about May.
Basically what I said back March 29th when btarunr was all… AMD must lower the price, like AMD was shaking in its’ boots. AMD played it cool and does things in their own sweet time, though I think the issues with TSMC was up in the air and they weren’t about to show their hand till they had faith in TSMC.
Ontopic: nice to see it finally happening, now NV will be forced to lower prices too, that what they're doing now is a total ripoff imo
this is how it looks like in EU atm,
cheapest 7970: 438€
geizhals.at/eu/?cat=gra16_512&xf=1440_HD+7970&sort=p
cheapest 680gtx: 467€
geizhals.at/eu/?cat=gra16_512&xf=1439_GTX+680&sort=p
Interesting at Egg there's a HIS 7970 reference "like" for $530 No Rebate w/FS
HIS H797F3G2M Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI...
All thet before price cuts or GTX680's anywhere.
yeah no doubt about that.. Btw if NV lowered Fermi 580gtx at 7970 launch things would be a lot different now, but hey everyone wants a slice of a 500$ cake lol i dont blame them, but still its us who pulled the short straw :p Its 1-2 day waiting time (some Polish shop)., That main site is like search engine it looks through all better PC shops in EU.
But I live in Canada, and we probably have a very limited number of the new nV cards available.
And about Powercolor being bad... I dunno. I've been running an overclocked 5850 since launch. The only problem was the stock fan crapped out, but it was running aound 100% for over 2 years.
Just like with most manufacturers, it's down to the luck of the draw and card batch.
Except for maybe Diamond. I have heard nothing but horror stories about those guys. Never owned any of their product though.
The only one I know, that has something in Canada for now, is Asus, which you can ask to send it in Ontario.
Already send a eVGA 7600GT KO a few years ago, I had to pay for shipping to send the card...
Like eidairaman1 said, this might apply to all companies..