Retail Radeon HD 7970 FOB Price Cut to $475, From $525

[brios_10]

Just spotted a Sapphire 7970 in my local webstore, yeah, its priced just like 20mmrain said. Don't know if they have in stock or pre-order. Don't have money anyways to buy a graphic card now.

 

[Damn_Smooth]

They can knock another $95-100 off what there lowering it to be, before I'd grab one of these cards.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you spend $700 on your 6990?

 

[radrok]

Yeah it would also be severely underpriced at 100$ less

 

[_JP_]

This is good. Now, AMD, invent a time machine, or make Superman fast-forward Earth so we can buy them already.

 

[20mmrain]

Well after tomorrow I will have the money for two of them.... then once I dispose of my Two GTX 580's I will have the money for my 3rd.... This gonna be fun But your right time needs to hurry up!!!

 

[Crap Daddy]

Now what we all need is just one game, not more, just one that can use these cards to their maximum potential.

 

[linoliveira]

I don't know if some of you read this @ Guru3d

On a recent AMD event we talked about this with AMD Radeon developers, and we have been assured that starting 2012 more people are added to the driver development team, to be able to guarantee you much better game support when the game is actually released. Good news is that the latest drivers also support manual creation of multi-GPU game profiles, allowing you to enable Crossfire yourself, if AMD has not fixed it.

If this is true, good news for everyone on the red side
Source: Radeon HD 7970 Crossfire review - Page 19

 

[radrok]

Now what we all need is just one game, not more, just one that can use these cards to their maximum potential.

THIS is what is holding me

 

[linoliveira]

THIS is what is holding me

You can soon use some 4k res. Ultra Definition screens from LG in Eyefinity and put those 3GB of VRAM to the test

 

[INSTG8R]

Now what we all need is just one game, not more, just one that can use these cards to their maximum potential.

ARMA 3 perhaps? Be cool to even see what ARMA II would look like completely maxed out with with a 10km view distance...

 

[SteelSix]

Now what we all need is just one game, not more, just one that can use these cards to their maximum potential.

The Witcher 2 max detail with ubersampling enabled? 580 SLI was choppy..

 

[Super XP]

This is great. Hopefully this helps drive the HD 6970 price down, so I can get some Crossfire loving or just bite into a HD 7970 when prices come down a little.

 

[Damn_Smooth]

yes I spent closer to $800 for my 6990... Around here a top ati gpu usually runs around the $380 out the door.... $500 out the door is still a bit high imo... I guess AMD need to recoop some of there losses on the shitty and usless Bulldozer but that's for another thread

Well, if AMD were a democracy, you would definitely have my vote for CEO because I would love for the price to be lower. I still think it is worth what they are asking though because of the performance.

 

[radrok]

Well, if AMD were a democracy, you would definitely have my vote for CEO because I would love for the price to be lower. I still think it is worth what they are asking though because of the performance.

As much as I would have liked AMD to retain it's price segment for the top single GPU, I agree with you that the price is fully justified by the performance it yields, hell for what it is worth it could cost even a little more if we purely speak about performance.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

people forget the overclock headroom

were talking 20-25% overclocks in reviews and sapphire is trying to bring out 40% overclocked versions to retail thats INSANE.

its price is justified a 580 3gb is still $500-520-550 ish depending where you look this beats it by 10-20% as is some titles as much as 60%, overclocking puts it in the 40-60% range at $550 ish with price gouging yes its $600 but anyone whos owned nvidia's high end has paid $600 per gpu as well.

AMD crowd im sorry to say needs to get over it pricing wise, nvidia looks to be 3-6 months out on Kepler AMD is the only game in town in the high end

with true DX11 titles like Metro 2033 crossfire scaling hits 100% and offers same performance as 2x 6990s in quadfire or 2x GTX 590s in SLI,

its performance depending on titles can be insane, or meh, but it seems the more DX11 the title is the better AMD gpu peforms

Examples being
Metro 2033
Shogun 2 Total War
to name a couple.

Bad Company 2 hits around 95% scaling at 1920x1200
Crysis 2 hits around 50% but at 2560 x 1600 its back up to 90% +
Battlefield 3 seems to hit around 90-95%
Alien vs Predator hits around 95%
Lost Planet 2 never a good game for AMD gpu hits around 70% from the looks

thats rather impressive really for beta drivers on a product not available at retail yet.

single card overclocked is on par or can beat out 6990 or GTX 590 both those gpus cost more, its priced where it should be,

AMD has a performance crown it can exploit for the first time in awhile

Think about 5800 series at release was great but AMD had to be first with DX11 and needed lower prices to take some market share and build up support for there products.
6000 was a refresh really nothing that great better tessellation tweaks essentially 4890
7000 series is the first time in a long time they ARE the GPU king of the hill again with a decent lead until Kepler, there going to do what they have to do as a business to capitalize on this situation.

 

[Damn_Smooth]

people forget the overclock headroom

were talking 20-25% overclocks in reviews and sapphire is trying to bring out 40% overclocked versions to retail thats INSANE.

its price is justified a 580 3gb is still $500-520-550 ish depending where you look this beats it by 10-20% as is some titles as much as 60%, overclocking puts it in the 40-60% range at $550 ish with price gouging yes its $600 but anyone whos owned nvidia's high end has paid $600 per gpu as well.

AMD crowd im sorry to say needs to get over it pricing wise, nvidia looks to be 3-6 months out on Kepler AMD is the only game in town in the high end

with true DX11 titles like Metro 2033 crossfire scaling hits 100% and offers same performance as 2x 6990s in quadfire or 2x GTX 590s in SLI,

its performance depending on titles can be insane, or meh, but it seems the more DX11 the title is the better AMD gpu peforms

Examples being
Metro 2033
Shogun 2 Total War
to name a couple.

Bad Company 2 hits around 95% scaling at 1920x1200
Crysis 2 hits around 50% but at 2560 x 1600 its back up to 90% +
Battlefield 3 seems to hit around 90-95%
Alien vs Predator hits around 95%
Lost Planet 2 never a good game for AMD gpu hits around 70% from the looks

thats rather impressive really for beta drivers on a product not available at retail yet.

single card overclocked is on par or can beat out 6990 or GTX 590 both those gpus cost more, its priced where it should be,

AMD has a performance crown it can exploit for the first time in awhile

Think about 5800 series at release was great but AMD had to be first with DX11 and needed lower prices to take some market share and build up support for there products.
6000 was a refresh really nothing that great better tessellation tweaks essentially 4890
7000 series is the first time in a long time they ARE the GPU king of the hill again with a decent lead until Kepler, there going to do what they have to do as a business to capitalize on this situation.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

I approve the above post.

see im crazy but i still make sense sometimes

7970 for the lulz and wins cause doing a line with asian girls off the gpu shroud is awesome... wait did i just say that?

 

[Wiselnvestor]

Sound's like yields are good for these new chips! Edit: That and /or(more towards and) they got more wafer starts.

Hope this will give a nice price drop soon.

 

[erixx]

NEWS SOURCES REVEAL THIS PRICECUT IS FALSE NEWs, please check and update 1st post. =8

 

[radrok]

NEWS SOURCES REVEAL THIS PRICECUT IS FALSE NEWs, please check and update 1st post. =8

You could atleast provide link to a source backing up your claims if you are going to make statements like that

 

[Quantos]

*snip* that big post

Couldn't agree more. From what I've seen so far, the price on the 7970 is justified. Considering that 20mmrain mentioned a price of $582, the custom PCB/cooler cards could be, what $610-620? With a good cooler and some voltage tweaking, as you said, the card is way above the 580 3GB in performance, and also importantly is close or better than the 6990/590.

 

[radrok]

It's better than a 6990, if you can get such performance on a SINGLE card, then it's priceless because you don't have to wait for CFX profiles

 

[erixx]

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12143/

 

[Damn_Smooth]

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/12143/

That's the exact same thing that the original news story has said all along.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

the difference is youll notice in that news post AMD was contacted directly and said that this is all fud, now amd has done that before of course so we have to wait and see but according to amd there is not FOB price drop and other sources are reporting the same thing.