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What does everyone think of current gpu prices

Ciff1 said:
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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like any new Technology that comes out.they are over priced the manufacture sells them over price and then you got the retailer doing the same

and then within 6 months it old Technology and a newer one comes out
and it just go round in a circle.you would never keep up with it
also you would find that thier is always a cheaper retailer selling them eleswhere if you shop around

as for the 6970's great card plays anything maxed out no problem
as too NVIDIA cards i don't like them.all the NVIDIA cards i have had in the past always become faulty.since i change 5yrs ago to ati i never looked back
 
Ciff1 said:
As much as I like pc gaming if the next gen consoles turn out cheaper than the current high end gpu's I might have to turn to the dark side !
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I wouldn't go that far considering last gens GPU's still deliver much more than consoles will in their next iteration unless they do something fantastical. I won't be buying new though, i had planned to but a minimum of £350 for an upgrade that i likely won't notice unless i go to 3 monitors just doesn't do it. Software is lagging behind this time round.
 
ALXAndy said:
I can only assume they have played BF3 vigorously and realised that vram is now important? or, that drivers have put the 6970 ahead of the 570 which has shown up how expensive the 580 really is?
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Well they must not have played BF3 because the 570 piddles all over the 6970 in BF3 at 1080p or less. You would know this too, if you had actually tried out a 570 and a 6970 in BF3, instead of basing everything you say on how much vram a card has.

But then again you were the guy who said a 560Ti 2Gb is a better card than a GTX 570, so what do you know?
 
kissenger said:
Well they must not have played BF3 because the 570 piddles all over the 6970 in BF3 at 1080p or less. You would know this too, if you had actually tried out a 570 and a 6970 in BF3, instead of basing everything you say on how much vram a card has.

But then again you were the guy who said a 560Ti 2Gb is a better card than a GTX 570, so what do you know?
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By piddles all over you mean by 3fps right? The 6970 piddles all over the 570 in other games if 3fps is the standard for piddling on another card.
 
kissenger said:
Well they must not have played BF3 because the 570 piddles all over the 6970 in BF3 at 1080p or less. You would know this too, if you had actually tried out a 570 and a 6970 in BF3, instead of basing everything you say on how much vram a card has.

But then again you were the guy who said a 560Ti 2Gb is a better card than a GTX 570, so what do you know?
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Oh hey I wondered where you'd gone !

I've been absolutely dying to tell you this !

My 7970 piddles all over your 570. So ner, ner and double ner.
 
mame said:
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
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This isn't far off my thoughts as well, although I've had my 460 1GB for nearly two years. I was considering a 7950 but I'm still undecided
 
Had my Powercolor 5870 since 11/03/10.. i didn't realise i had it for so long until now.

What a cracking cards it's been.. it's handled everything i've throw at it so far.

Not even considered upgrading it.
 
My 5850 is still going strong! AMD are going to have to come in with some better prices on the 7950, 7870 etc to tempt me!

To be honest I think Nvidia is too blame for all of this. They have always charged a premium and now that AMD have a Nvidia beating range they are pricing higher than Nvidia. So if Nvidia weren't charging so high in the first place we wouldn't be seeing these inflated prices.
 
Spenty said:
Being poor, well off or rich should have nothing to do with the matter.
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Why not? People who are rich probably don't care, £420 or £320 it's all the same to them.

Personally I'm not convinced 7950 is 'midrange', it appears to be competitive with the GTX580 which makes it a high-end card IMO.
 
nitram100 said:
To be honest I think Nvidia is too blame for all of this. They have always charged a premium and now that AMD have a Nvidia beating range they are pricing higher than Nvidia. So if Nvidia weren't charging so high in the first place we wouldn't be seeing these inflated prices.
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If you extrapolate that argument you could say that AMD is to blame; when Nvidia had an AMD beating range they priced higher than AMD. So if AMD hadn't been charging so high in the first place we wouldn't be seeing these inflated prices! Essentially, you'd iterate back to a point where anyone charging money for a graphics card is to blame.
 
ALXAndy said:
Oh hey I wondered where you'd gone !

I've been absolutely dying to tell you this !

My 7970 piddles all over your 570. So ner, ner and double ner.
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Good for you. Should be able to run BF3 properly at last, now that you're not dealing with a 6970 anymore.

My 570 runs it great, and Skyrim, and whatever else I throw at it, so I won't be upgrading anytime soon.
 
These high prices arn't good for the PC industry, no-wonder that gaming has gotten console convert crazy. People arn't taking up gaming on they're PC's even though most people have one in the house.

Saying that I got a 7970 and i'll well happy with the upgrade from a 460gtx.
 
The recent generation of graphics cards still cut the mustard, so it shouldn't really matter all that much. If people are willing to pay the premiums for the latest kit even if it's not all that much value in comparison to the previous offerings, then so be it. It will level out after a while, how long that takes depends on a number of factors that I don't think I'm going to try and figure out this late at night.

I still have my 5770, and I think I may get a 7950 if it ever reaches the ~£300 mark, but that would coincide with an entire system overhaul, I've had this machine since 2008 or something.
 
I don't like spending more than 150-200 USD on any single component. I'll probably be getting a 2nd hand GTX 580 at some point.
 
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