Flagship Gfx cards...

_TubbZ_ · 29 Mar 2010 at 20:08

Is it me or at the main flagship gaming gfx cards from both Nv and ATI getting more and more expensive? (Maybe its the weak pound?) Or has it got to a point where they can't afford to increase performance without a nice price hike to go along with it.

I am personally sticking with my crossfired 4870's for now as they can handle everything fine really but the reason why i haven't sold them on and upgraded is mainly the high cost of such a move

Just wondering what people think

mame · 29 Mar 2010 at 20:11

I'm surprised how many people are buying the 58**. I think they are way overpriced for the performance that they offer over the last generation.

johny dolan · 29 Mar 2010 at 20:13

I bought a couple of gtx 8800s when they launched from ocuk must be 4 or 5 years ago they cost £500 each then.

Mr Fujisawa · 29 Mar 2010 at 20:17

johny dolan said:
I bought a couple of gtx 8800s when they launched from ocuk must be 4 or 5 years ago they cost £500 each then.

Jan 07, paid £400 on the dot for a bfg factory oc'd one from ocuk, you were ripped off £200 mate!

Jono8 · 29 Mar 2010 at 20:27

flagship cards seem to be costing less to be honest.

I remember when each new card used to be £400 - £500 (for the very best one)

paradigm · 29 Mar 2010 at 20:31

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Geforce 2 Ultra was £400 on release.

londonbairn · 29 Mar 2010 at 20:55

mame said:
I'm surprised how many people are buying the 58**. I think they are way overpriced for the performance that they offer over the last generation.

So what's your views on NV pricing then?

Overpriced...compared to the 4x0, more like bargain.

mame · 29 Mar 2010 at 21:41

rafster said:
So what's your views on NV pricing then?

Overpriced...compared to the 4x0, more like bargain.

Not compared to the GTX 400s, I did say over the last generation......

I have no preference with Nvidia or ATI in general, I've owned plenty of both. The GTX 400s have only just been released. When the GTX 260 and 280 were released, everyone laughed at them for their prices. I think the 260 (192 core) was just short of £300 on here. It took the 216 core revision, a couple of good driver updates and a big price drop for them to become a well recommended card. Mine was £140 a year ago. I think the 5770 is a good price. Decent performance and with DX11. After that I think you get diminshing returns for your money. Even the 5850 is almost twice the price. In the past, if you spent double what you could get a good card for (5770), you got something quite special. Fair enough, the 8800 GTX was expensive, but it ripped the x19**s to pieces in just about everything. The x1950s were still about £200 then as well.

Jono8 · 29 Mar 2010 at 22:37

The 8800gtx was amazing.

*remembers fond memories of own*

TheBiznes · 29 Mar 2010 at 22:49

Jono8 said:
The 8800gtx was amazing.

*remembers fond memories of own*

+1 Still have mine in other system waiting for 5970 to come back rma it still performs well on 2560 x 1200 awesome for the time I have had it.

chaotic_uk · 29 Mar 2010 at 22:56

the 3870x2 still performs well in most game , it's just old nowdays now that dx11 is here to stay lol

Broken Hope · 29 Mar 2010 at 23:00

Just be glad AMD have competitive parts, imagine how much the 470/480 cards would be if that wasn't the case.

james.miller · 29 Mar 2010 at 23:16

mame said:
I think the 5770 is a good price. Decent performance and with DX11. After that I think you get diminshing returns for your money. Even the 5850 is almost twice the price.

its almost twice the performance as well?

chaotic_uk · 30 Mar 2010 at 00:08

james.miller said:
its almost twice the performance as well?

no thats the 5870

james.miller · 30 Mar 2010 at 00:12

chaotic_uk said:
no thats the 5870

no, thats the 5850

mame · 30 Mar 2010 at 00:15

james.miller said:
no, thats the 5850

Is it ?

kylew · 30 Mar 2010 at 00:18

james.miller said:
No, that's the 5850 as well when you overclock it.

Fixed.

james.miller · 30 Mar 2010 at 00:19

sure, though the gap is the biggest > 1920x1200. im not saying its twice as fast across the board lol - it isnt.

james.miller · 30 Mar 2010 at 00:20

look if you lot are going to try and correct me, neither the 5850 or the 5870 are twice as fast across the board, overclocked or not.

kylew · 30 Mar 2010 at 00:24

james.miller said:
look if you lot are going to try and correct me, neither the 5850 or the 5870 are twice as fast across the board, overclocked or not.

Temper temper.