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What does everyone think of current gpu prices

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With the current amd 7900 series gpu's being £350 for the mid range card and £420 for the high end cards, do you consider these good value for money ?
Or do you think they should be £100 cheaper ?
What's everyone think ?
 
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For a gaming rig, IMO cards that cost that sort of money is just crazy. If you have the dosh or are a massive fan, fair enough but £400 for a gfx card. Wow.

Yes its the latest tech etc but all that money just to get a few more fps in a game and then before you know it, the price of the card has plummeted and is now out of date to newer cards.

Sometimes when I look at the price of pc parts, like go on overclockers and look at a category, like gfx cards or cpu's, now sort the list by highest price first. Wow, just wow, people pay that sort of money for parts. Granted, the volume of their sales may be lower than other mid or highish end parts but I almost fall off my chair sometimes when I see the price of some pc parts.
 
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Had my GTX460 1GB for 18 months. Nothing at the moment even tempts me in the slightest. I'll be keeping it untill there is a 2GB+ card that is around twice as fast for about £130-170.:D
 
They're inflated. And the reason they're inflated is because the 6 series AMD cards could not compete with the high end Nvidia ones.

As such Nvidia saw no reason to drop their prices for any reason, so held fast.

Then AMD knew they had a card that could beat the Nvidia ones. So they simply priced it like for like with the same Nvidia part that was slower (the 3gb 580).

Give it a couple of months :)

Now that AMD have something to compete with Nvidia are going to have to (begrudgingly no doubt) reduce their prices.

This will then make the AMD cards look expensive, so they will then have to follow suit.
 
ALXAndy said:
They're inflated. And the reason they're inflated is because the 6 series AMD cards could not compete with the high end Nvidia ones.

As such Nvidia saw no reason to drop their prices for any reason, so held fast.

Then AMD knew they had a card that could beat the Nvidia ones. So they simply priced it like for like with the same Nvidia part that was slower (the 3gb 580).

Give it a couple of months :)

Now that AMD have something to compete with Nvidia are going to have to (begrudgingly no doubt) reduce their prices.

This will then make the AMD cards look expensive, so they will then have to follow suit.
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That's rubbish as a 6970 beats a 570 in most benchmarks and costs less.
 
Spenty said:
That's rubbish as a 6970 beats a 570 in most benchmarks and costs less.
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It does now yes. It didn't when it released though due to drivers.

Obviously the 6970 is the far more future proof card given that it has 2gb vram too.

But you're omitting the 580. Nothing AMD made with one GPU on could compete.

Thus, when you hold the big willy crown card you can charge what you like for it. And Nvidia have.

The 3gb 580 costs £430 min. That's for a card that is now a year old or more old (the GPU on it).

Not very cheap is it?

So yes, the 7970 could well have been £350. Hell, it could have been £300 had Nvidia dropped their prices. But they had no reason to at all. TBH in all my years of being into computers I've never seen a top end card -

1. Stick around for so long.
2. Cost what the 580 3gb does for so long.
 
Price/Performance wise though buying a 6970 was much wiser than buying a 570 or 580, it loses out to the 580 around 5-10fps but costs around £200 less in some cases. I think nvidia are the ones making the prices so high, no matter how low AMD drop the price on their cards people still seem to buy nvidia anyway because of their exceptional drivers, physx, 3d and cuda for folding.
 
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£300 would be tops. Technology gets better and gets cheaper as it becomes more available. So time should bring it down. Thank god we dont get a massive price hikes when intel release a new CPU!

My 2500k is about a billion times better than my 2.4 p4 yet it wasnt a billion times more expensive! not to scale.
 
Spenty said:
Price/Performance wise though buying a 6970 was much wiser than buying a 570 or 580, it loses out to the 580 around 5-10fps but costs around £200 less in some cases. I think nvidia are the ones making the prices so high, no matter how low AMD drop the price on their cards people still seem to buy nvidia anyway because of their "exceptional drivers, physx, 3d and cuda for folding.
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Well of course we know that. Any one with sense would have realised that the AMD cards were better value.

Sadly though generally speaking it doesn't work like that does it?

People want the fastest. Even if it's by 0.000001mhz.

And the fastest commands the "silly" price. I paid a silly price for my 7970. I'm hoping that it stops the one year itch (built my I7 950 machine a year ago and got bored).

Something only loses money if you sell it, so I'm hoping to ride this 7970 until it breaks.
 
xsistor said:
No it doesn't. The 570 is the more powerful GPU, and pulls ahead with higher AA/AF. Not to mention, tessellation. 6970 just has more VRAM.
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It's swings and round abouts, I wouldn't like to say either was more powerful than the other overall.
Can tell who you're biased for ;)
 
panyan said:
but the 6970 is their fastest 6000 series gpu

compare it to nvidias fastest gpu, the 580 gpu, and then you will understand ;)
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But they're at two completely different price points.
The 580's faster than the 6970, but what does that have to do about the 570 and 6970 competing together?
 
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