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What does everyone think of current gpu prices

Let's talk hypothetically, if the 7950 cost £290 how many of you would buy it today? I'd say a fair few more than at its current price, BUT not that many. You either have a lot of disposable cash or you don't. I'm going to have to wait until they are way cheaper (like second hand 200 quid) before I consider them
 
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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"They will go up and down according to market forces"

Case in point: OcUK selling 7970s for one price on launch, then dropping a huge (relatively) amount off for This Weekend Only, etc. One can assume therefore that they weren't selling as quickly as desired or claimed.....

Same with other retailers really, and other products where demand outstrips supply. They will be priced according to what the market is willing to bear rather than their cost price.

Cards may be getting bigger but it's mainly the cooler that adds to the size, the board itself is fairly uncomplicated and hasn't changed much over several generations. 1 or 2 GPU cores, memory which will have a comparitively low cost price at the sort of volume AMD/Nvidia buy them at, etc.

Cards are only getting more and more prohibitively expensive because people are still buying them at those prices. Recession? Pah!
 
Devrij said:
Let's talk hypothetically, if the 7950 cost £290 how many of you would buy it today? I'd say a fair few more than at its current price, BUT not that many. You either have a lot of disposable cash or you don't. I'm going to have to wait until they are way cheaper (like second hand 200 quid) before I consider them
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It would fly off the shelves at 290 mate.
 
For years now I have aimed for the £200 card when an upgarde is needed. At the moment I'm wondering if the 'next gen' £200 card is even going to be faster than my current 6950 (which was £190 new)

I think the next gen of consoles may end up taking more than a few PC enthusiasts over to the dark side.
 
I always think that there's never particularly a good time to buy, but there's always a BAD time to buy (same probably applies with CPU's). Now happens to be one of them with new cards just on the horizon and also with many cards either the same or higher than their price 6 months ago.
 
nitram100 said:
It would fly off the shelves at 290 mate.
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Yeah, right.

Enthusiasts on this Forum would probably get excited all over again and jizz over their new purchases but any outsider would consider you a crazy geek for spending £300 on a single PC component.

The cards would only fly off the shelves if they were limited in amount.

AMD knows exactly what people will pay, why sell the cards for $400 if you can ditch almost the same number for $50 more?
 
nitram100 said:
It would fly off the shelves at 290 mate.
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GTX570 and 6970 were same speed as their previous gen fastest card GTX480 for under £300, did they fly off the shelf?

From the specs they 7950 doesn't looks like going to be hugely faster than the GTX580, but they are charging the same price as GTX580 a year ago.

The fundamental issue is that most people only willing to spend £200~£250 max on a graphic card.
 
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In answer to the op's question, the 7970 and the 7950 are looking poor value because of the pricing of the previous gen cards ie, 6970\6950 and 580\570, these cards have stuck at there current pricing for what seems an eternity now and that wasn't helped by the fact they were not a big enough improvement over the previous gen either. I find myself still using my 470GTX because its still powerful enough at 1920 X 1080 to play Skyrim maxxed out and I dont even have to overclock my cpu or gpu. To be honest I never buy the top card, I'm usually one gen behind and looking to spend around £200-£250, however I am finding there is nothing for me to buy that is a big enough jump in performance, not the 570 or the 6950 and certainly not at current pricing, not worth it.
At current pricing for the 6970 or 580, also not worth upgrading to as these cards are stuck in price as well. The 7870\7850 are also going to be poor value and little better than what I have. For the first time since I took up the Pc I have no upgrade path this year and I think its down to the poor last year cards and the fact they were little better than the cards they replaced. My next upgrade will probably be Xmas this year, unless we have a repeat year of stagnent prices. I imagine, other than enthusiasts, a lot of people are in the same boat. This is not good for Amd or Nvidia, prices need to move down swiftly on the old gen cards, which, in turn will bring down the price of the newer cards hopefully.:)
 
I'm in agreement with many people here thinking the 79xx series is poor value. Even the 69xx and GTX 5xx.

I don't game at 1080/1200p (anymore) so I have to buy the best I can for the lowest possible since I run at 1440 resolutions.

I'm currently still using my GTX 470, which I got for about £170 if I recall correctly. It replaced my 4870X2 which died late 2010. if it didn't die, I'd probably still be using it at this moment.

My biggest problem is just how expensive the current high end is. Yes I know the GTX 580 3GB and 7970 would be good upgrades at my resolution, but the price is extremely off putting.

I just can't justify myself spending over £350 at Most for a GPU. Even then, it better be offering a massive improvement over my current one at the resolution.

I don't play BF3 or Skyrim, so it could be why I haven't noticed such a big need to upgrade yet, as my system still easily plays SWTOR, TF2, the Tribes Beta, The Witcher 2, Metro 2033 and Civ V.

I'm sure if I decided to "max" some of them out I'd be in single digits for FPS, but I really don't see the need yet.

I do like good graphics though, but I'm not as obsessed as I was back when I bought the 8800GTX/Ultra and 4870X2 at their release.
 
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I think they're horrible.

Everything is stupidly overpriced in this rip off island.

The 7970 should be £12 and the GTX 580 £10
 
just added another gtx470 for tri sli as they are going for a good price now.that gives me more than enough grunt for anything and will do for quite a while.so why pay stupid prices.
 
I think they're vastly overpriced. No wonder PC gaming has struggled with these prices. You just can't expect most gamers to pay £300+ for a GPU alone when they can get an Xbox for £150 and play all of the same games. Yes there are disadvantages to consoles but there's also a lot of advantages (bigger community, ease of gaming with friends, earlier releases, better optimisation, form factor, gaming on big screen TVs, etc).

I prefer PC gaming, but if it's gonna take off again these GPU manufacturers need to stop the ridiculousness.
 
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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awesome prices and value for money.
You get even better value from the midrange segment but these cards rock.:p
 
I think they are vastly overpriced to - the problem for me is if you put them in perspective of previous generations based on performance then in comparison to the generation before they occupy the spot of the GTX470, 5850, GTX260, 8800GT, etc.

The market is in a bit of an odd position at the moment tho - the 7970 performance and current game performance requirements just aren't sufficent enough to drive down prices on the GTX580 so the 7970 isn't going to be in its proper price spot especially with the current lack of a proper next generation top end card.
 
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kissenger said:
I think they're vastly overpriced. No wonder PC gaming has struggled with these prices. You just can't expect most gamers to pay £300+ for a GPU alone when they can get an Xbox for £150 and play all of the same games. Yes there are disadvantages to consoles but there's also a lot of advantages (bigger community, ease of gaming with friends, earlier releases, better optimisation, form factor, gaming on big screen TVs, etc).

I prefer PC gaming, but if it's gonna take off again these GPU manufacturers need to stop the ridiculousness.
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I agree. TBH I reakon that as soon as the next gen "looks almost as good as a PC game if you squint a bit" consoles come along PC gaming could well dissapear up its own bum.

Apparently the WiiU has a Radeon 4000 series card in with DX10 support. So apparently we will be seeing far more DX10 games on PC once it arrives..

^ What's wrong with that picture? :D
 
Overpriced by far. Hoped they would replace their predecessors at same price points, not just stick a big premium on top. Roll on the competition to bring prices back down to earth.
 
The price of gpu's has stopped me buying a new full price game for about 18 months , were as i used to buy 4-5 a month. I now game 1 year or so behind . Masses of advantages . Games are sometimes 1 tenth there new price . They have all been patched so i am not paying full price for an open beta . And i can play games at max on past generation and cheap Gpu's , I still have a gainward rampage 700 4870x2 . Brought from here when it was the fastest card in the world for £330 :D

I have for a while thought the killer of pc gaming will be the cost of gpu's . :(
 
rallyslag said:
I have for a while thought the killer of pc gaming will be the cost of gpu's . :(
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You would be amazed at how many people use a sensible system for their gaming.

It's the minority who have over powered systems, and an even smaller one that have multiple GPUs or screens.

The 7970 is the first "Stupid, irresponsible and over priced" GPU I have bought since I bought a 3DLabs Oxygen in 1999.

Since then it was (I got married then so finances became tight :D )

Voodoo 5500 PCI (£99 in the bargain bin at PC world. Epic bargain) in 2000.

Geforce 2 MX 64mb (worst card I ever had. Slow, and loved to artefact). Was a Prophet card by Hercules.

Radeon 9200 Pro ($140 bought for NFSU)

Geforce 5900 Ultra, bios flashed to 5950 (got in a pricing error for $180 or so when it should have been $400+)

Time out....

Geforce 9800 GT with an Accelero cooler. £150 2008.

GTX 280 XXX from a place that sells refurbed XFX cards. £185 2009.

5770 Crossfire £265 Jan 2010.

Geforce GTX 470 £174.99 Oct 2010 (I hated Crossfire)

6970 2gb December £287 (failed)

7970 stupid and irresponsible but whatever £439 Jan 2011.
 
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