Thursday, May 28th 2009
AMD to Cut HD 4850 Prices to Compensate for HD 4770 Shortages
It seems that in order to make up for the shortages of the now very popular HD 4770, due to TSMC's issues with 40 nm manufacturing, AMD is dropping the prices of the HD 4850 to around the MSRP of the HD 4770. That is around $99.99 US and about €90, this will be putting further pressure on NVIDIA as AMD brings down one of its top GPUs in to the sub-$100 market.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
26 Comments on AMD to Cut HD 4850 Prices to Compensate for HD 4770 Shortages
Still, a price cut on the 4850 is a good thing, now if the 4870 would come down even more I could get me crossfire! :D
Prices are going down fast!
now I need a third one :D :rockout:
HIS 4850 + Clear Sky = $74.49 :toast:
Sounds awesome for people that seriously need to upgrade.
May 4870 512 drops to $120 ? and 1gb to $150 ? Well... for $240 or $300. 4870x2 would be just great. :laugh:
On the other hand if you don't mind drivers that are a year old since that's the last stable version then ATI is not a bad choice.
ATi's second latest set of drivers are rock solid stable for me on my desk-top and the final release for my X1250 on the lappy are also stable (well, they were before I nuked vista from the partition, not seen 'em on 7 yet.), only reason I've not updated the drivers on the desktop is that I've not used the computer for ~ a month due to school issues.
So if that's your definition of a nvidiot..
I incidentally moved to ATI after a long while suffering under nvidia's driver issues and crap, so I'm not really fully in either camp, I just wish they both found a way to get competent coders, and found a way to get schools to teach would-be coder to learn to test what they produce and take note of feedback and use that to fix things, and to not change what isn't broken into something that is, and then ignore reports of people for months/years, people who not only report issues but even what file has the issue and where the problem lies
And ATI even installs an event handler that produces reports, and when people relay that info they simply don't want to hear and know about it, same for nvidia, their forums also were about deflection as I recall.
But it's nice for you that you haven't reached the inevitable bitter state you will reach eventually, enjoy it while it lasts.
But hey at least there's some passion. :)