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560 Ti sales
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perhaps so many people jumped on the 400 series bandwagon that they just can't justify going to a 500 series, because in games they really don't make that much of a difference.
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Agreed. You can buy a 470 for significantly less, overclock it, and get the same performance. No brainer.
I was looking at these today and I don't know why they're not selling. I looked on the Anandtech bench and found that they were equal to an HD6950 but shorter and quieter.
As i've decided against my HD6970 I might pick one up, it depends on a number of factors but the GTX560Ti is on the shortlist.
As i've decided against my HD6970 I might pick one up, it depends on a number of factors but the GTX560Ti is on the shortlist.
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Personally i think its the lack of video ram you get on them compared with the gtx480/6950. An unlocked 6950 to 6970 is 20% faster at 1920x1200 so maybe the same as 1920x1080. This gap gets lower as you reduce resolution. The gtx480 or 6950 seems like a no brainer at this price point and you can see this from the amount of people buying the 6950 and gtx480 on this forum.
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Because of course most 6950's can be unlocked to 6970's, which are noticeably faster, and anand's gpu bench is a bit, biased shall we say(read rubbish) and not totally realistic or real world differences, the 6950/6970 also do exceptionally well the harder a game gets pushed or the higher the settings you push/res. Which should translate well to future games, you've also got GPGPU functions on the 6950 which aren't there on the 560ti, not a massive deal by any means right now but in the next year, maybe two gpu acceleration is set to explode far more than it has, largely because Intel/AMD making fusion chips mean gpu acceleration is pretty key to them.
They aren't bad cards though at all, but as a 6870 can come VERY close, and now overclocked versions can beat a stock 560ti, and 6850/6870's are cheaper.
Meh, its always hard to know where gfx sales are, even if Gibbo was nice enough to give us some numbers for say the past few weeks it doesn't paint the whole picture.
For instance the 470/480gtx are good deals, as are some 5850/5870's(not sure if they still have any stock) but things like EOL'd supplies of 470gtx could be in the 1000's and have sold all but 10, or they could have gotten 50, and only sold 5.
Are the 560ti's not selling because something else on offer, EOL cards are selling more, or are none selling.
Do most people upgrade big in one go, cpu/mem/mobo/gpu, are big upgrades "off" at the moment as the vast majority would have gone Sandybridge/p67/memory/560ti, and they've all been put off for a couple months?
Its likely a mix of all of them to be honest, this generations EOL pricing has hurt the next gen big time.
Normally you get old card at £300, new gen is 80% faster and thats now £300 and the old gen on EOL pricing at say £150-200 to clear stocks, but thats between 50-100% more expensive for the new card thats 80% faster. You still get value for money going for the new gen.
This time the new gen is 20% faster, so you've got £150 vs £300 cards, but only a 20% performance boost, theres no value for money in the new cards this time around.
The weird thing is, due to the lack of performance difference why did AMD/Nvidia authorise such low EOL pricing, they could have sold those cards at much higher costs?
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Agree with the above post. The jump in the new Gen cards haven't been great enough to justify it over EOL pricing.
The one on "Today Only" was £206inc vat.
The one below is on "This Week Only" is £192inc vat with faster core and shader clocks out of the box...
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-074-GI&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341
The £192 card had a two day head start since that offer started on Weds whereas the £206 was only on for yesterday. If people wanted a 560 they would have seen and bought the £192 one since that deal arrived first. That's what I would have done at least.
I'm sure they'll still sell plenty of the £206 card (now at £215ish) and make a bit more profit so no loss there really, having not shifted any yesterday
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the 560's introductory prices could have had something to do with it. the 6950s were roughly £240-250 (can't completely remember, but in that ball park) from launch, and along comes a 560 that's only 5-10% slower but a good deal cheaper. It could be seen as a knee jerk reaction, but AMD lowered the 6950's price enough to compete directly with that of the 560, thus making it a much better deal at that price point.
Compounding that, as drunkenmaster has said, was the clearance prices on the 4 series, further knocking the 560 down the list of good deals.
Compounding that, as drunkenmaster has said, was the clearance prices on the 4 series, further knocking the 560 down the list of good deals.