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Cant believe how fortunes change, when the 8800GT came out it was hailed as perhaps the best card since days of the 9700 Pro for what it gave the consumer and ATI had a poor time of things for a long time

Then we had Nvidia milk the 8800 hardware with what seemed like a new card every week and infrequent driver releases, then their launch of the GTX200 series upstaged by ATI with amazing price/performance, then Nvidia shares collapse, no DX10.1 support and massive price drops, The GTX280's would still be arround £430 were it not for ATI who I bet are quite smug at the mo
 
Gerard said:
Nvidia must be taking an absolute asspounding on these gtx's, bad yields and the price has dropped near $400 since they were launched. :eek:
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What makes you so sure? They'll still be pulling a profit, and a decent one at that. Even with bad yields, these products must cost peanuts to produce.

Right from the start I've felt Nvidia were simply overcharging while they could, to squeeze some extra money out of those enthusiasts who will pay anything for "the fastest card". now that ATI has some competition they're dropping the prices to what they should have been in the first place.

I don't know, I'm probably wrong, but that's just my opinion.
 
I wouldn't have thought that the R@D costs were very high for the 260/280
After all its not new tech. :)

Sit tight let the price drop further
 
Well there still are a lot of costs that aren't directly related to production, and is aimed at marketing etc, we already have the GTX 280 as the fastest card(for another couple of weeks at least) so pricing is the only concern for now. I believe i saw a figure of about 150$ to produce one of these? And that was at low yields, they might have gotten the yields improved so that they're turning a better profit. No matter what they will sell quite a bit more at this price, and hopefully they'll be even cheaper if Nvidia can get good yields with 55nm
 
DarkMatter said:
makes the GTX260 very tempting, shame it performs between 4850 and 4870 so it should be £150 to be justifyable.
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I could be very tempted to buy two of them for folding though, should perform quite a bit better than the 280 for about 100£ more in a couple of days when the next price drops arrive :P
 
Just wow at the 280 prices...LMAO. For the time time I can remember in a long while...you can get the best cards available for way less than £300!!! Hope this competition contunes for a long while.
 
MystaEB said:
What makes you so sure? They'll still be pulling a profit, and a decent one at that. Even with bad yields, these products must cost peanuts to produce.
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They won't cost peanuts to produce for two reasons.

Firstly, the die is huge, meaning they get very few of them to a wafer and if the yields are also crap then this ramps the cost up.
Secondly, the actual construction of the cards is very complex with a 512-bit memory bus requiring complex layouts and chip packaging.
Thirdly, they have a shedload of R&D costs to recoup, it's not just a case of making a small margin on the cards themselves.

Personally I'm waiting for three reasons:

1. Waiting to see how the 4870 1GB card compares both in price and performance.

2. The GTX280 will no doubt drop even more

3. I suspect they're trying to shift their stock of 65nm products quickly as the 55nm shrink is imminent - this could well be worth waiting for as I suspect they'll use the smaller process to ramp up speeds a la 9800GTX+ to make it competitive with the 4870x2.
 
I still wouldn't buy any of them till the 4870X2 comes out as i think there will be another round of prices cuts on that cards release. How much of a numpty must people that bought the G200 series on launch day be feeling right now because no matter what they might say buying a card then watching it go down in price by nearly 200 has gotta hurt.
 
Even if it falls to £250 and the 1GB 4870 is £20-30 less I'll go with the 4870. nVidia's gouging before the 48xx launch and then desperate price cuts don't impress me.
 
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