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Geforce GTX 780, 770 coming in May

Yeah it's Nvidia, they do excessive well. The price difference is due to the fact the 780 is on the gk110 core the same as titan, whist the 770 is just the GK104 but slightly improved.
 
Ok, that makes more sense. I'm still wondering about the prices you have quoted though. Are they your opinion of what we should expect or were you quoting something from a credible source ?
 
Greebo said:
I disagree somewhat. The 5870 price was "cheap" to be honest. You look back through history and both Nvidia and AMD have launched their flagship single cards at around $599 historically. Accounting for inflation that should be around $700 ish nowadays.

However the market had changed somewhat and people just can't afford £500+ cards like they used to and with competition both sides dropped their prices.

So really they are just setting back to where it used to be for their flagship card.
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The 4870 was also amd's flagship single gpu model and the release price here was around £200 ($299). I remember people going crazy over the £300 ($399) release price of the 5870 because of how low prices were on the hd4*** series. How times change, we would love a high end card to be around £300 on release these days.
 
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Greebo said:
I disagree somewhat. The 5870 price was "cheap" to be honest. You look back through history and both Nvidia and AMD have launched their flagship single cards at around $599 historically. Accounting for inflation that should be around $700 ish nowadays.

However the market had changed somewhat and people just can't afford £500+ cards like they used to and with competition both sides dropped their prices.

So really they are just setting back to where it used to be for their flagship card.
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The difference being the GTX 480 and 5870 would eat games of the day for breakfast and then ask for desert.

Today a GTX Titan can only just mange the most demanding games maxed out, that's a lot more money for something that's only just adequate for the best at the best settings.

4 / 5 years ago you paid a lot of money for the best and you got an absolute monster, that can't be said today.
 
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Suarez7 said:
Agree with you there humbug, price/performance is pretty shocking these days when you take into account what you said.
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Agree - It's just going to push more PC gamers towards console gaming in the end. With the next gen consoles coming out the gap between the PC experience and console experience will be pretty minimal. With games being optimised for these new consoles I wonder what impact it will have for us PC gamers? More demanding games?
 
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