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why such a big price difference 7950-->7970 ?

Dicehunter

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Was just looking at the new cards and seeing as there isnt really much difference between the 2 cards is it really worth a £90 hike ? seems a bit stupid to me.
 
Pretty much because they can.

The HD 7950 is as fast or faster in games than Nvidia's current fastest single GPU card the GTX 580.

So the 7970 is even faster than that - which means it is by some margin the fastest single gpu card currently available. Hence there is a price premium.

Hopefully when the Nvidia kepler cards, which will directly compete with the 7970, come out then prices will start falling.
 
DF1986 said:
Was just looking at the new cards and seeing as there isnt really much difference between the 2 cards is it really worth a £90 hike ? seems a bit stupid to me.
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5850 and 5870 were 100 pound difference and the performance difference was even less as they both clocked to about the same levels.
It's always that way.
 
Be glad you missed the days of the 6800 ultra, 8800 ultra, x850xt pe, x1950xtx etc.

Large price difference for being clocked higher.
 
DF1986 said:
Was just looking at the new cards and seeing as there isnt really much difference between the 2 cards is it really worth a £90 hike ? seems a bit stupid to me.
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The whole price of the 7900 series is stupid.

The sales are like a smelly stagnant pond

Wait and they will drop in pricer and AMD will have egg on their faces.
 
DF1986 said:
Youve got to be honest here though, £440 for a single gpu card is over the top, you can pick up an Asus GTX 580 DirectCU II for £350 which performance wise isnt really that far off the 7970 according to benchmarks.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1373/pg1/xfx-r7970-black-edition-vs-gtx-580-overclocked-vs-radeon-6970-overclocked-introduction.html
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acording to benchmarks so you would think there is no way in hell of them beating 2x gtx 480's?....

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18370541
 
DF1986 said:
Youve got to be honest here though, £440 for a single gpu card is over the top, you can pick up an Asus GTX 580 DirectCU II for £350 which performance wise isnt really that far off the 7970 according to benchmarks.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviews/1373/pg1/xfx-r7970-black-edition-vs-gtx-580-overclocked-vs-radeon-6970-overclocked-introduction.html
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It's all dependant on the performance it offers.
If the 7970 came out, performing 50% faster out of the box, with the same OC'ing headrom, I'd have no problem whatsoever with its price as its performance is worth it
 
wasn't it with 280gtx when they were highly priced then doped price dramatically and they had to refund people back or something ?

if nvdias card would come out considerably faster , i bet we could see same scenario.
 
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