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** MASSIVE NVIDIA PRICE DROP!!! **

First id say congrats to OCUK for further price drops.

However, with the GTX970 at £259.99 I see no reason why anyone would buy a GTX780 unless its priced at maybe sub £220.

Suppose its useful for anyone wanting to go SLI though, so if thats you maybe time to bite before they all disappear.
 
FoxEye said:
Except they had to buy into/license Samsung's process tech because it was more advanced than their own... right?

I'm not sure who else fabs chips these days. IBM left the market didn't they.
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Its more the case GF and Samsung are trying to combine forces,so they can push forward the tech quicker. IBM,was at 22NM with their SOI process,but sadly for AMD it appears to have only been adapted for relatively small volumes,and the R and D spend was too much to justify for them.

There is noise that GF is buying up the IBM tech,so maybe in a few years time things might change,although it does not help AMD in the short term with regards to their CPUs.
 
'Wes said:
RIP AMD.
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LMAO, AMD have cornered the whole games console market.

I'm sure they will come back, after moving back to traditional desktop CPU design and what they unveil in 3 days.

Don't forget, AMD are in the CPU, chipset and GPU markets. nVidia are only in the GPU market.
 
JonnyG1982 said:
First id say congrats to OCUK for further price drops.

However, with the GTX970 at £259.99 I see no reason why anyone would buy a GTX780 unless its priced at maybe sub £220.

Suppose its useful for anyone wanting to go SLI though, so if thats you maybe time to bite before they all disappear.
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At 4k 780 SLI would work out better. The 970 (ed in SLI) consistently loses to the 295x2 at this res.

£227 is cheap enough. I can see these flying off the shelves, especially as they're somewhat reference and thus would work great in SLI.
 
Will AMD answer by lowering prices or do they have a product coming out? The 285 wasn't as good as i was expecting it to be and now its a no brainer just grab a 770. Great NV prices!
 
ALXAndy said:
At 4k 780 SLI would work out better. The 970 (ed in SLI) consistently loses to the 295x2 at this res.

£227 is cheap enough. I can see these flying off the shelves, especially as they're somewhat reference and thus would work great in SLI.
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780SLI @ 4k with 3GB of memory and 256 bus.....I wouldnt fancy it.
 
djkav said:
LMAO, AMD have cornered the whole games console market.

I'm sure they will come back, after moving back to traditional desktop CPU design and what they unveil in 3 days.

Don't forget, AMD are in the CPU, chipset and GPU markets. nVidia are only in the GPU market.
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Margins on the consoles will be tiny. It's a good steady stream of income but it won't high enough really make a dent.

I don't think AMD are doomed either but there isn't much reason to buy one of their cards as it stands.
 
Born_2_Kill_83 said:
780SLI @ 4k with 3GB of memory and 256 bus.....I wouldnt fancy it.
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Hmm, well I thought the 780 had the same memory bus as Titan.

Guess not :D

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780/specifications

Says 384-bit

Rusty0611 said:
Margins on the consoles will be tiny. It's a good steady stream of income but it won't high enough really make a dent.

I don't think AMD are doomed either but there isn't much reason to buy one of their cards as it stands.
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Margins on the consoles at first will be small. However, you have to realise a console has a five year or so shelf life. This means that over the years AMD can bring costs down, then start making money.

Any console is marginal at first. It's only over time the maker and suppliers of the parts actually make money.
 
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apostolis_kt said:
I thought it was 384 for the 780 and 256 for the 970

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780/specifications

Edit: Was too slow whyscotty got there first :D
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It is.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_970_SLI/

Note - once you get to 4k the 970 SLI arrangement pretty much loses every single game test to the 295x2.

Hence, 780 SLI would work out better on larger resolutions than 970 SLI, and it's £50 cheaper.

Now sure, losing a gb of vram actually sucks but in most cases 3gb is enough.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Margins on the consoles will be tiny. It's a good steady stream of income but it won't high enough really make a dent.

I don't think AMD are doomed either but there isn't much reason to buy one of their cards as it stands.
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AFAIK, after they've done the R&D on a chip, it costs pennies to produce each chip so they are nearly profit and can be sold at any price and make money.

Fairly sure that Linus is my source.
 
JonnyG1982 said:
First id say congrats to OCUK for further price drops.

However, with the GTX970 at £259.99 I see no reason why anyone would buy a GTX780 unless its priced at maybe sub £220.

Suppose its useful for anyone wanting to go SLI though, so if thats you maybe time to bite before they all disappear.
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Umm sli?

Not everyone wants to sell a perfectly good 780 or whatever and get the 9xx
 
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