Why are GTX 970s still so expensive?

Alexlomm

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I've looked at prices for GTX 970, GTX 1060 and RX 480 and discovered, that the 970 is priced almost equally to the latter cards. Why is that?

Frankly, I was expecting prices for 970 to drop to or even below 200$
 
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retailers had to pay good money to sell the cards
so they're not gonna drop the prices just yet
also the GTX970 is a very popular card for SLI
they have dropped in price, but usually the last gen doesn't drop massively in price immediate

Alexlomm

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What is the reason behind this? It seems illogical for anybody to even consider buying the 970 when there are much better choices like RX 480 and GTX 1060 available out there for basically the same price
 


retailers had to pay good money to sell the cards
so they're not gonna drop the prices just yet
also the GTX970 is a very popular card for SLI
they have dropped in price, but usually the last gen doesn't drop massively in price immediate
 
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jimmyEatWord

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maybe because with 1080 1070 and 1060 there's an "NVidia hype" like when people try to buy the latest iPhone , so everything NVidia is expensive including 970
 


The RX 480's have had much the same release, even with the reference cooler designs.