Who's skipping the 7xx series then ?

RavenXXX2 · 20 May 2013 at 12:26

danny77 said:
I raise you £49.99

I'll stick at £400 for stock cards and a higher price for OC/non-reference

Jono8 said:
That would be pointless.

I agree but I get the feeling Nvidia are gonna just replace the 680 with the 770 at the same price point and have the 780 sitting at £100-150 higher and the rest of the 7** re-badges will all fall nicely in to line pricing wise for Nvidia, the 6** cards will see a slight reduction in price.

pgi947 · 20 May 2013 at 12:39

RavenXXX2 said:
+1, Nvidia are now off my GPU shopping list, gonna see what AMD has to offer the consumer, hopefully it's not overpriced re-branded 256 bit cards.

256 will be probably be dropped to AMD's x7x0 range, expect the x800's to be 384 3gb & x900 to be either 384 6gb or 512 4gb.

I think we should all sit tight until we see final pricing, not expecting the 780 to be cheap but the rest of the line up could be very well priced.

Gregster · 20 May 2013 at 12:48

I shan't be downgrading to the 7 series

TwsT said:
I'm skipping my next purchase will be ATI,

That would be a massive downgrade

TwsT · 20 May 2013 at 14:38

Gregster said:
I shan't be downgrading to the 7 series

That would be a massive downgrade

only if you live with blinkers on

believe me I'm a massive nvidia fan boy but the 780 is a big pile of cack. it's basically Titan chips that weren't good enough for a titan..... so unless it comes in at 680 price or less it won't be worth the money.

9790 will smoke the 780 into oblivion and there will be a lot of but hurt nvidia fan boys all over this forum. For once it will be true the facts will be obvious. It won't even be up for debate.

TwsT · 20 May 2013 at 14:40

ubersonic said:
Yeah! to hell with them! how DARE they give us re-branded cards with a slight performance boost and lower price, the scum. And a cut down Titan that falls in between 680 and Titan pricing? the audacity!

Lower price.... this is nvidia not AMD.... but you can always dream.

Tackle_Berry · 20 May 2013 at 14:43

Using a 2GB 680 with 2560x1440 I struggle to max somethings but I will wait for next time round.

ubersonic · 20 May 2013 at 15:02

TwsT said:
Lower price.... this is nvidia not AMD.... but you can always dream.

When they re-branded the 9800GTX+ as the GTS250 they dropped the price, makes sense they will do the same thing this time round too with 680-770 and 670-760Ti /shrug

GTA767 · 20 May 2013 at 15:08

why skip than u have money

for me personally upgrade from 680 lightening only will cost maxs 150 baxs

its not big money for the pleasure it will give me

TheRealDeal · 20 May 2013 at 15:11

ubersonic said:
When they re-branded the 9800GTX+ as the GTS250 they dropped the price, makes sense they will do the same thing this time round too with 680-770 and 670-760Ti /shrug

That was the second rebrand though. The 9800gtx was basically just a 8800gts with higher clock. So you had 8800gts/9800gtx/gts250.

Yaayuh! · 20 May 2013 at 15:12

GTX690 @ 1920x1080. I'm good for a while.

ubersonic · 20 May 2013 at 15:13

TheRealDeal said:
That was the second rebrand though. The 9800gtx was basically just a 8800gts with higher clock. So you had 8800gts/9800gtx/gts250.

The was actually a die shrink between 9800GTX and 9800GTX+ (a subtle naming diff but actualy the biggest change to the card). In any case though this even further illustrates the point as 8800GTS-9800GTX also caused a price drop, as did GF2Ti-GF4MX.

Despite Nvidias big bad rep they do usually drop the price when re-branding cards.

bru · 20 May 2013 at 15:14

Gregster said:
I shan't be downgrading to the 7 series

TwsT said:
I'm skipping my next purchase will be ATI,

Gregster said:
That would be a massive downgrade

TwsT said:
only if you live with blinkers on

Or only if you actualy buy an ATI card, seeing as the last cards they made were the 5000 series, hence gregsters comment.

TheRealDeal · 20 May 2013 at 15:22

ubersonic said:
The was actually a die shrink between 9800GTX and 9800GTX+ (a subtle naming diff but actualy the biggest change to the card). In any case though this even further illustrates the point as 8800GTS-9800GTX also caused a price drop, as did GF2Ti-GF4MX.

Despite Nvidias big bad rep they do usually drop the price when re-branding cards.

8800gts release price $349. 9800gtx release price $349. By the time the 9800gtx launched 8800gts prices would also have fallen a little. So there was no price drop. In reality it would have been a price hike.

Rusty0611 · 20 May 2013 at 15:38

bru said:
Or only if you actualy buy an ATI card, seeing as the last cards they made were the 5000 series, hence gregsters comment.

I'm glad somebody pointed that out. I was about to but on my phone it wouldn't have been quick!

TwsT · 20 May 2013 at 15:39

ubersonic said:
When they re-branded the 9800GTX+ as the GTS250 they dropped the price, makes sense they will do the same thing this time round too with 680-770 and 670-760Ti /shrug

it's not a rebrand though it's a GK104 (300?) 770 and a GK110 780

so the 770 will be a 680 with maybe a couple of MHZ put on at stock. and the 780 will be a titan that didn't meet the cut but still a very valuable chip and thus I expect a hefty pricetag but I don't think the average Gamer will benefit at all. If the 770 launches at 680 prices then it may do well and may be worth investing in. a 790 could be a good card if it was two 770's on a board

the 760 is not announced sure you might be right that it's a 670 but if it's not same as or cheaper than the the current 670 it's again a pointless upgrade. The whole generation appears to me to be a farce.

As for this thread I've made a stupid mistake and forgot that debating with the nvidia fan boys is somewhat akin to representing UKIP in scotland.

IRT bru

yes I know but whilst gregster was joking other people who read will be serious about it. and yes very clever AMD/ATI

who cares it still says ATi on the pcb

Gregster · 20 May 2013 at 15:43

bru said:
Or only if you actualy buy an ATI card, seeing as the last cards they made were the 5000 series, hence gregsters comment.

I was joking Twst

randal · 20 May 2013 at 15:57

Selling the 570 and going 670 I expect, then wait until the next next generation come out and see what happens.

The curve, I like to be behind it. Cheaper innit.

Secret_Window · 20 May 2013 at 16:10

lol definitely skipping.

Sampsy · 20 May 2013 at 16:13

I will. If they are holding back performance to try to extract more money I am just not going to spend anything at all until the upgrade is actually worth it.

ubersonic · 20 May 2013 at 16:15

TwsT said:
it's not a rebrand though it's a GK104 (300?) 770 and a GK110 780

I think you misunderstood the original post you replied too.

When I said

ubersonic said:
Yeah! to hell with them! how DARE they give us re-branded cards with a slight performance boost and lower price, the scum. And a cut down Titan that falls in between 680 and Titan pricing? the audacity!

The "re-branded cards with a slight performance boost and lower price" bit was aimed at the 680-770 re-brand, the bit after the full stop about the "cut down Titan" was separate, of course thats going to have a heafty price tag, but most likely one in between 680/Titan in line with its performance.

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TheRealDeal said:
8800gts release price $349. 9800gtx release price $349. By the time the 9800gtx launched 8800gts prices would also have fallen a little. So there was no price drop. In reality it would have been a price hike.

According to http://www.bit-tech.net/ the 8800GTS 512MB launched at $369.99 and the 9800GTX 512MB rebrand was $299, by the time the 512MB GTS250 launched at $129 the 9800GTX+ 512MB it was rebranded from was $149.