Radeon R9, R7 to Prompt Nvidia Price Cuts and New Cards?
We do love a bit of healthy competition.
AMD's new graphics cards aren't due out until later this month, but already Nvidia is feeling the heat. According to the latest scuttlebutt from DigiTimes, the company may not only introduce a couple of new GeForce GTX SKUs but also cut prices on existing GPUs.
DigiTimes reports that Nvidia could introduce one or two sub-$250 SKUs in order to better compete with AMD and they could be based on its GK104 and GK105 silicons. Prices are tipped at $150 to $250. Nvidia may also cut prices across its entire lineup, including the GTX 770 and 760 and possibly the the 780 and wallet-crushing Titan. If all of this comes to fruition, our next installment of Best Graphics Cards for the Money could be very interesting indeed.
AMD unveiled its new Radeon R9 290X last week in Hawaii, describing the R9 and R7 series as 'the new GPUs for a new era in graphics.' If you missed out on our coverage of AMD's GPU14 Tech Day, hit up our recap here, watch the full presentation here, or scroll through our live blog for the most important moments.
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They don't release for a little while yet, they have time.
You were the best Tom, but now your just overrated and bloated
Anadtech + fudzilla + VR-zone + xbitlabs + wccftech
both of the above have there own technique of course, but i believe all of them surpassed you, its not just about AMD GPU 14, that was just the tip of the iceberg, the lack of subjective opinions and complicated benchmarks + bench scores, than can sway either way, i just had enough.
The only good remaining thing, is the helpful community in Tom Hardware Forum, and without them your lost, so please start to respect those people more, instead of respecting pay rolls from Intel or Nvidia.
However this my opinion, hope you can respect it and dont delete my comment.
Anyway on a somewhat more serious note 770 at 300-325 dollars please.
If they do price-cut the Titan, it'll be fascinating to see by how much, but a bummer
for those who bought one recently.
Ian.
I would not set hopes so high Jane. TH has been a green site since AMD released the frame pacer driver back in august, and unless AMD outbids NVIDIA in bribery here, the stream of biased articles will continue:
-After FCATs test showed that AMD was just as good as NVIDIA in framepacing, TH went back to subjective evaluations, and did the extra mile to include in the " scientific test" Metro LL, even knowing that there is a "bug" capping AMD frames on that TWIMTBP title.
-Best cards for money insists in recommending GTX 760, refusing to acknowledge that 7950 is faster AND cheaper.
-All assorted multi-GPU recommended on that article are NVIDIA, when for single monitor gaming nothing beats price and performance on AMD side.
-The last system build marathon was a bad green joke, with 3 NVIDIA overpriced and slow as molasses builds: a slow and expensive GTX 760 in place of a cheaper and faster 7950, a ridiculously overpriced GTX 770 in place of CF 7950 and finally a triple GTX 760 build that doubles as a room heater.
-But all that bias was not enough and TH released an article on how the design team at NVIDIA came out if the 690 and Titan.
I would not set hopes so high Jane. TH has been a green site since AMD released the frame pacer driver back in august, and unless AMD outbids NVIDIA in bribery here, the stream of biased articles will continue:
-After FCATs test showed that AMD was just as good as NVIDIA in framepacing, TH went back to subjective evaluations, and did the extra mile to include in the " scientific test" Metro LL, even knowing that there is a "bug" capping AMD frames on that TWIMTBP title.
-Best cards for money insists in recommending GTX 760, refusing to acknowledge that 7950 is faster AND cheaper.
-All assorted multi-GPU recommended on that article are NVIDIA, when for single monitor gaming nothing beats price and performance on AMD side.
-The last system build marathon was a bad green joke, with 3 NVIDIA overpriced and slow as molasses builds: a slow and expensive GTX 760 in place of a cheaper and faster 7950, a ridiculously overpriced GTX 770 in place of CF 7950 and finally a triple GTX 760 build that doubles as a room heater.
-But all that bias was not enough and TH released an article on how the design team at NVIDIA came out if the 690 and Titan.
SO someone cannot find the GPU design to be amazing? The latest GPU cooler from NVidia is very nice. It cools very well and does look very nice. Not my style but its not bad.
I looked at some benchmarks and 7950 vx 760, its really a tie. One wins some, the other wins others and they tie some. Neither seem to be able to truly beat the other all the time and it depends on the game.
Trust me, I like Radeon. Have since my 9700Pro. But they are not always the best GPU. Sometimes they are, sometimes they are not. The GTX780/Titan were good designs by NVidia. Now Hawaii will probably be a better design for a bit.
I prefer it goes that way so we see more innovation and cheaper prices.
And if you feel that way about THG, then why not keep the comments to yourself and leave? Would make things much easier.
Fanboys will be fanboys I guess.
And GTX 660 as the GTX 750Ti ?
And the GTX 670 as the GTX 760Ti ?
Well , if something new's gonna come , it better be not rebranded or AMD will get a huge upper hand and dominate everything or break the nViDia roadmap...................
This has even opened the doors for the HD 7000 series owners like me , who can now take home a second GPU and XFire at a reasonable cost.
HD 7950 XFire On the way
lol, nothing they're not accustomed to
Ive been really considering to jump to the red team, not because of hate for NV but because I'm a simple consumer. Having loyalties to a brand means nothing and i need something with a big frame buffer goddamnit!!
Bring out more cards with higher ram!