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NVIDIA's & ATI's Latest Pricing as of end of this week!

Mr Krugga said:
Why are you so glad about it? You probably paid £385+ for a card that performs within 5% margin of HD6970 (presumably) and that costs £100 less. SO cash.
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because i've had enough of my 5870's stuttering. ATI drivers just don't seem to be able to provide smooth gaming experience. that's compared to gtx 260 i've had before it.

because i'll be going nvidia this round anyway, might as well buy it. even if 6970 is within 5% of gtx580's benchmark performance, for gaming experience, i'll stick with nvidia for next couple of generations.

ATI cards have always been priced slightly less than similar performing nVidia cards. add to the fact that gtx 580 will be the very best single GPU card for a while, paying for the price premium is worth it. remember how buying 8800GTX on its release was worth every penny?


end of the day, buying the best single-GPU card will always cost more. you are paying for the trouble free and guaranteed performance. and im happy to spend more to get a single faster GPU then those supposedly good value crossfire/sli. (electricity bill for idle computer, heat, motherboard requirement and driver issues)
 
wuyanxu said:
because i've had enough of my 5870's stuttering. ATI drivers just don't seem to be able to provide smooth gaming experience. that's compared to gtx 260 i've had before it.

because i'll be going nvidia this round anyway, might as well buy it. even if 6970 is within 5% of gtx580's benchmark performance, for gaming experience, i'll stick with nvidia for next couple of generations.

ATI cards have always been priced slightly less than similar performing nVidia cards. add to the fact that gtx 580 will be the very best single GPU card for a while, paying for the price premium is worth it. remember how buying 8800GTX on its release was worth every penny?


end of the day, buying the best single-GPU card will always cost more. you are paying for the trouble free and guaranteed performance. and im happy to spend more to get a single faster GPU then those supposedly good value crossfire/sli. (electricity bill for idle computer, heat, motherboard requirement and driver issues)
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Your rocking all that hardware on a Corsair HX620

Im impressed :)
 
wuyanxu said:
not the 27inch monitor ;)

max power draw had been 420w shown on the power meter, so there's amp headroom for the Hx620 from OCuk 3.5 years ago.
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Still damn good with your GTX 580 !

I had to upgrade to a HX 850 when i upgraded to a i7 930 coz my 620 Enermax Liberty wasnt up to the job.

Im running a 4870 Toxic atn , and i need a new GPU asap, hopefully a 6950 or 6970 will be sub £275 inc VAT, if not i might just take the hit and get the GTX 570.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Now, when Nvidia cuts pricing on the 570/580gtx a LOT, they might be quite good, but Nvidia doesn't want to cut prices by as much as they are going to have to.
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Dude, the GTX570 will be faster than the 6850 and it costs just a tiny bit more. The 6970 might be a little bit faster than GTX570, but that costs a little bit more. The GTX580 will remain the fastest GPU money can buy, and that demands a premium. The GTX570 is a very good buy.

edit: Don't forget performance AFTER overclocking is also important, and Fermi will surely out-overclock Cayman.

edit2: The GTX580 I purchased new on Sunday cost £342.
 
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555BUK said:
Dude, the GTX570 will be faster than the 6850 and it costs just a tiny bit more. The 6970 might be a little bit faster than GTX570, but that costs a little bit more. The GTX580 will remain the fastest GPU money can buy, and that demands a premium. The GTX570 is a very good buy.

edit: Don't forget performance AFTER overclocking is also important, and Fermi will surely out-overclock Cayman.

edit2: The GTX580 I purchased new on Sunday cost £342.
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what did you claim the vat back lol
 
555BUK said:
Dude, the GTX570 will be faster than the 6850 and it costs just a tiny bit more. The 6970 might be a little bit faster than GTX570, but that costs a little bit more. The GTX580 will remain the fastest GPU money can buy, and that demands a premium. The GTX570 is a very good buy.

edit: Don't forget performance AFTER overclocking is also important, and Fermi will surely out-overclock Cayman.

edit2: The GTX580 I purchased new on Sunday cost £342.
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Will you STFU when the reviews prove you wrong? You can't know **** about overcloking results of HD6900s, are you one of those guys who claim that overclocking 5800s gives you nothing but overclocking Fermis gives you double the performance?

Afaik GTX570 was quite poor overclocker in the reviews, especially the gains weren't impressive at all.
 
Love ppl that states things about nvidia, cant buy them here, all out of stock, likely yeilds is down the drain and nvidia did a paperlaunch.
many brands tells 1of FEBRUARY for stock...

Tomorow I order some 6900 cards, overclock the snot out of them and be happy :D
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Voltage tweaking is not yet an option according to a recent Guru3D review so I guess with no extra volts overclocks will be very low. Most on stock volts are doing 860 core so with extra volts you can expect over 900 core and that's sublime performance over stock clocks.
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980MHz for 6970 and 1010Mhz for 6950 I've read somewhere in this Forum.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Link me.
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I might have made it up though :D

seena said:
As you can see in the image above, unlike in their previous attempts at Vapor Chamber cooling with modest sized vapor chambers like in ATI Radeon HD 4870X2, the approach with Radeon HD 6900 Series is more akin to Sapphire's pioneering 3870 Vapor-X, or recently the GeForce GTX 500 Series.

This massive Vapor Chamber cooling is the reason why AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series is achieving remarkable overclocking results, just like the GeForce GTX 580 and 570. We've seen GTX 580 working at 895MHz, GTX 570 at 880MHz as well as viewed results of Radeon HD 6970 clocked at 980MHz, and 6950 at 1010MHz. We've spoken with numerous board manufacturers and they're all telling us that this generation of graphics cards is "vintage", with overclocking headroom spanning much beyond the last generation.

Who'd knew, perhaps TSMC is finally maturing their 40nm process.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...a-large-vapor-chamber-cooling-to-hd-6900.aspx
HD6950 looks like a very good oc'er
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Maybe not.
 
The reason they clock relatively well is not so much due to the cooler but IMO the fact that they were originally aiming for a higher clock speed but couldn't get sufficent quantities at the level they wanted - this usually means a good proportion of the available cards do overclock quite decently.
 
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