AMD Cutting Prices of its Radeon HD GPUs
There is word that AMD has just launched a round of price cuts for several CPUs that could be spicing up the graphics arena quite a bit.
Our friends at AnandTech say that the cuts will mainly affect the 7800 series, which will be dropping from $279 on the street to $249 next week. The 7850 will have to surrender this price point and drop to $209.
AMD's new contender for Nvidia's recently launched 660Ti will be the 7950 which will sell in the $299-$319 range (down from $349) to compete with the 660Ti's $299 price. The 7970 could decline slightly from 4429 to $399 while the 7970 GHz Edition is expected to shave $30 off its launch price and land as low as $469.
Nothing unusual here. It is a seasonal adjustment in the lifecycle of AMD's GPUs that is designed to keep the processors economically attractive and competitive against Nvidia's Kepler cards.
I try to avoid nVidia all I can due to them holding back gaming because of bribing companies to code Physx for graphics calculation while my i7 sits at 30% usage, but if it is a clear winner, I can't throw money away.
Thanks AMD for allowing me to keep boycotting such a greedy horrible company.
nice to see the drop though, but i dont really see a reason to buy a new card until the new consoles come out.
I'm sorry but is directX 12 coming anytime soon? I was under the impression that the next-gen consoles will use directX 11. We may be several years away from dx 12 homie.
great news!
I try to avoid nVidia all I can due to them holding back gaming because of bribing companies to code Physx for graphics calculation while my i7 sits at 30% usage, but if it is a clear winner, I can't throw money away.
Thanks AMD for allowing me to keep boycotting such a greedy horrible company.
gcn and kepler are the ones to go for.
long live competition!
Exactly. Physx is a horrible marketing ploy. The cpu should be processing all physics effects.
Consoles don't use DirectX at all. Well Xbox technically supports it, but why use an API when you can have low-level access.
let the ______ think consoles use any type of DirectX in them. (fill the blank)
Not that we didn't see this coming ... though AMD played smash-mouth with these cuts going beyond what everyone anticipated.
Yields must be great for them -- let's hope that carries through with Trinity, Vishera, Kaveri and Steamroller.
Does this mean all the cards will be even cheaper now?