Tuesday, March 10th 2009
NVIDIA Might Cut the Price of GeForce GTX 260 to $199
Our friends from Guru of 3D alarm that NVIDIA might cut the price of GeForce GTX 260 by up to $30 from its current price tag. With the new price in position the GeForce GTX 260 should drop to around $199 and thus enter in the same league as ATI's Radeon HD 4870 with 1 GB memory. The price cut is direct result of ATI's recent price reductions that soften the price of both Radeon HD 4870 512 MB and Radeon HD 4850 512 MB.
Source:
Guru3D
19 Comments on NVIDIA Might Cut the Price of GeForce GTX 260 to $199
Love the game!
Notice the similarity? GPU Cafe is the source, and Guru 3d blatantly copied it, w/o mentioning or even linking to them. Shame on them ...
On topic, go pricecuts :)
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I know there's not a significant difference, just pointing it out.
Hurry up newegg!
lets say a GTX260 core 240 (GTX275), running 633/1404/2200 would keep them clear up top and i doubt much they would have to worry about chips reaching these speeds. that still leaves plenty of oc headroom.
the extra shader cluster has shown those 5-10% gains themselves (192-216), and ~10% clocking will assure that stays well on top of a 4890, as it tends to beat a 4870 now. however the lack of ROPS, memory and a small sacrifice of speed keeps in nicely in check behind a GTX285 (which a 4870 would need a complete overhaul or LN2 to beat one)
That's more reasonable.
Likely only doing it due to sales losses with the economy being crap.
as soon as things stabilize, they'll start raping us again..