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7990 in March could be £800 ! Start Saving

Nah, the correct price for 7970 based on the same workings is £423 and you'd pay ~£450 at launch for one (£416 if you were quick) so I think given the £700 barrier it wont go over that apart from a handful of cards
 
It'll be at least £700 because history says so.

6990 - pretty much twice the cost of two 6970.
5970 - pretty much twice the cost of two 5870.

Unless, of course, Nvidia step in with something in the mean time. The problem of course is that these cards are made to wave the willy with and thus can cost any price. The willy wavers will still pay it.
 
ALXAndy said:
It'll be at least £700 because history says so.

6990 - pretty much twice the cost of two 6970.
5970 - pretty much twice the cost of two 5870.

Unless, of course, Nvidia step in with something in the mean time. The problem of course is that these cards are made to wave the willy with and thus can cost any price. The willy wavers will still pay it.
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What you aren't taking into account is that both of those cards were considerably less than the 7970
 
With Nvidia saying they're not impressed by the 7970, I doubt prices will stay this high when kepler is released (Assuming from nvidias confidence that they outperform them by far).
 
straxusii said:
What you aren't taking into account is that both of those cards were considerably less than the 7970
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I have taken it into account, hence the £700.

The 590/6990/5970 and so on (and the GTX 295) cost almost double their single counterpart with a very small discount.

5870 was what? £300 when prices settled? 5970 was about £500.

How much was the 6970 at release? £300? (don't remember now).

6990 what? £550ish?

And so on. Single slot dual GPU cards are always hideously expensive due to what they are designed for. They are designed, quite simply, for a company to say "We have the fastest single PCIE slot card".

Thus, they're not priced very keenly as they are more a marketing ploy than something that should be taken 100% seriously. Anything that relies heavily on driver and game support will never be mainstream.

Recently when faced with the proposition of being able to splash out on a card with money (sort of) being no object I looked very closely at the 590. Sadly the price per performance was absolutely ludicrous. I could almost have bought myself two full fat 580s.

And the same rings true for the 6990. Infact, IIRC, it would have been cheaper to buy two full fat 6970s.

My £700 guesstimate relies heavily on Nvidia having nothing to show by the time it arrives. Otherwise it will be cheaper to suit.
 
849 U.S. dollars * 1.2(VAT) = 655.556271 British pounds

No way would I buy this for £800. At most I'd spend £675 or so. I'm sick of all the UK prices. I'd only buy any card if the US UK price about evens out.
 
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