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AMD 9*** series soon?

teppic said:
AMD's going to undercut the GTX 780 while showing the new card outperforming it in BF4 at ultra, I'd bet on it.
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Do you think that will be undercut the currant 780 price or whatever price the 780's are when the AMD cards launch?
 
bru said:
Do you think that will be undercut the currant 780 price or whatever price the 780's are when the AMD cards launch?
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The 780 isn't going to drop a great deal over the next few months, we all know nvidia don't really need to drop prices to pull in sales anyway.
 
Suarez7 said:
The 780 isn't going to drop a great deal over the next few months, we all know nvidia don't really need to drop prices to pull in sales anyway.
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I agree, plus it'd put pressure on the 770.

My guess is AMD will be aiming for 500 EUR as they did with the 7970.
 
bru said:
Do you think that will be undercut the currant 780 price or whatever price the 780's are when the AMD cards launch?
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The 780s will stay at this price until the AMD cards launch, at the very least. I'd expect the prices to stay pretty similar afterwards as well, unless AMD can show 780-beating performance at a notably lower price. I think AMD will take the opportunity to price the 9970 close to the GTX780 though, rather than trying to undercut the opposition.


If the 9970 could beat out a Titan (stock for stock), then things would get very interesting! It would be virtually impossible for a £800 card to compete against a ~£500 card with superior performance. Whether the prices would drop dramatically, or whether the Titan would simply be discontinued / massively scaled back - who knows. I still think that the 9970 will fall a little short of the Titan's performance, but lets wait for some hard specs to see which way it goes.
 
badcompany said:
Is it still worth buying a 7850/7950 this late in the day?
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If you can hang on a few more months, I'd say wait and see what October brings. The next card will be GCN 2.0, have all the tweaks and improvements that can be made on 28nm, and will be this generation but "done better". And you never know, AMD might bring something surprising to the table.

If you've got something decent like a good 5/6 series card, then wait. If you can't and you really need something now, then the current 7 series cards are great and have had a lot of performance pulled out of them as the drivers have improved.

I'm in the same situation with a new Haswell PC, but clinging to my 6950 until the new cards arrive, because I don't want to spend money on a card that is about to be superceded, when I could be buying one of the newer ones instead if I'm just patient for a bit longer.
 
If these rumored specs below are legit (Doubtful) the 9970 would be an absolute monster..

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http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-HD-9970-vs-GeForce-GTX-780
 
It may be just lifted from the speculations or unconfirmed leaks, e.g. tomshardware has, "The information revealed is that the Volcanic Islands GPUs will be baked on a 20 nm lithography and be designed to have Gate-Last transistors. Specifications for the HD 9970 include 4096 stream processors, four geometry engines, 256 TMUs, 16 serial processing units, and 64 ROPs. Memory will be driven through a 512-bit memory bus, and GDDR5 memory."
 
Jay85 said:
I WANT SOMETHING AFFORDABLE AND AMAZING FROM AMDDDDDD!!!
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FX 9590?



:D

Kaapstad said:
Check out the TDP and reality goes out the window, 255W I don't think so.:D
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I'm assuming they are basing those specs with a die shrink in mind, so power use could be around 250w if that was the case.

It's far more likely they will release on 28nm, and 2000+ shaders than 20nm and 4000+ shaders tbh..

Would be nice if AMD went straight to 20nm now though..
 
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