AMD's Own HD 7970 Performance Expectations?

[phanbuey]

I would say AMD/ATI can justify a $500 MSRP... remember TSMC bumped the 28Nm wafer cost and for that both AMD/Nvidia get less fully functioning top shelf chips. Then if the performance is something close to what's being presented, that affects on pricing compared to the competition. The last thing is the worst... strong demand and not enough inventory, which by all accounts will be a big motivator for all retail/E-tailers will set pricing above MSRP, why because there's enough folk willing to pay the inflated price for acouple of months any-who.

At $500... Nvidia hasn't any reason to worry about lowering the 580's (40Nm price is fixed) they might adjust a little and AIB will offer more custom solutions, but Nvidia has no reason to run out little the buildings on fire. They’ll hold and play their cards, because they know they'll be in the same situation when Kepler starts showing.

Yeah but we also dont know the margins on the cards or the production volumes... even if the 28nm cost is higher - if the margins are squishy enough to strategically price the card they should do so. After all, it won't help to keep a static % profit if it means you don't benefit from an early launch.

They'll want to cut into a nice chunk of Nvidia's market share, and, you're right, they won't do it with a $500 card. It would be unfortunate if they couldn't produce enough units to take advantage of what they have, but scarcity would be the only way the price would stay that high.

 

[air_ii]

This graph looks hardcore faked.

First. Why is it blurry? The Picture does not indicate that it was taken by a camera. No lines or glass or splotches.

Second. The lettering looks tampered with. It could be that someone attempted to blur it on purpose. But why in such a way? Their are far easier ways to blur a photo. Not to mention the graphs look doubled.

Third. The areas around the lettering. They look brighter white to me. Why? If a photo was blurred this should not be the case.


Someone said that this graph looks accurate according to rumors. But thats assuming the graph is legitimate. The graph could too easily and IMO probably is fake. Theirfor of course it would represent the current performance rumors.

It's not a fake. It's from AMD's review guide (as in the link below):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H86KSABC

EDIT:
And all slides as well.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=37TFTYDX

Links originally supplied by -The_Mask- over at B3D forum.