Sunday, August 10th 2008
R700 Initial Listings Reveal Low Price
The Radeon HD 4870 X2 (R700), the flagship graphics card by AMD is observed to have a lower than expected price-point that seems to justify its performance lead (through pre-release performance evaluations). Going by several reports in the past few months, the R700 was expected to have a US $549.99 launch price, at a time when the competitor NVIDIA was pricing their flagship product in that range. In the period between then and now, the price of the GeForce GTX 280 plummeted from $649.99 to $449.99 while still regarding $499.99 as the company standard price, with some stores and partners in the US selling for as low as $429.99, a huge lop of its original price.
NordicHardware studied several European stores that began listing the R700 for as low as 395 €, with the North American markets keeping their shelf prices set at around the $500 mark. With these price points set as standards, there's bound to be flexibility in pricing, coupled with the launch driver which AMD claims to have fixed several issues in both feature and performance aspects, the product is expected to deliver a level of performance that justifies its price while still remaining 'competitive' per say, and not commanding a high price merely because it holds the performance crown, again going by pre-release performance evaluations.
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NordicHardware
NordicHardware studied several European stores that began listing the R700 for as low as 395 €, with the North American markets keeping their shelf prices set at around the $500 mark. With these price points set as standards, there's bound to be flexibility in pricing, coupled with the launch driver which AMD claims to have fixed several issues in both feature and performance aspects, the product is expected to deliver a level of performance that justifies its price while still remaining 'competitive' per say, and not commanding a high price merely because it holds the performance crown, again going by pre-release performance evaluations.
44 Comments on R700 Initial Listings Reveal Low Price
Good to see ATI getting a few harder punches in, it's also good to see NV isn't sitting idle either. And with Intel looming with something that could possibly compete, things can only get more interesting from here!
:toast:
www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3354&p=4
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www.techreport.com/articles.x/15105/5
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Yeah, they lose this round as far as performance at the top end, but they will be fine until they come out with something else. They aren't in trouble in any way.
You know how many years we've been hearing ATI is screwed? They're still around..:toast:
techreport.com/articles.x/14990/12
Don't forget hayder that ATI releases drivers, I bet ya money if we live close that we are only getting a slice of R700 right now lol.
www.techreport.com/articles.x/14990/12
And the 4870 x2 beats a single 280gtx in crysis and only 3 fps slower than 2 280gtxs in sli.
www.techreport.com/articles.x/15105/5
Why not mentioning "age of conan or grid" where xfire does better than sli.
www.techreport.com/articles.x/15105/6
www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3354&p=4