AMD Cuts Prices of its Radeon HD 7000 Series

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]Back in my day (2009), mid-range cards were $200-249. Not this $299+ crap.[/citation]

I remember paying $500 for a 9700Pro in 2003 when they first came out and the 9500, the mid range of the time, was $400.

Pricing hasn't changed much. For a while AMD had their top end around $300 because they couldn't fully compete with nVidia but the 7 series is a major jump for them. I bet the next gen will be price the same.

 

[Bloob]

[citation][nom]scotty99[/nom]Is there really a reason to go above a gtx 460/465 level GPU? I bought a 465 on sale for 129.99 in august of 2011 and i have had no problems playing every game i own at 1080p with mostly maxxed settings.[/citation]
No reason to upgrade before the next console generation.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]Back in my day (2009), mid-range cards were $200-249. Not this $299+ crap.[/citation]

The 7850 can play pretty much any game with the resolution of at least 1080p and the texture settings maxed out, but has an MSRP of $249. The naming system might place most of the supposedly mid-ranged cards above the $249 mark, but unless you consider a resolution over 1080p as mid-ranged, the mid-ranged cards (or in this case, really just the 7850) is at $249.

 

[master_chen]

[citation][nom]De5_roy[/nom]for cheap[/citation]

Where?

 

[goodguy713]

Im pretty sure i will be looking for deals come black friday.. lol

 

[djscribbles]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]The 7850 can play pretty much any game with the resolution of at least 1080p and the texture settings maxed out, but has an MSRP of $249. The naming system might place most of the supposedly mid-ranged cards above the $249 mark, but unless you consider a resolution over 1080p as mid-ranged, the mid-ranged cards (or in this case, really just the 7850) is at $249.[/citation]

Exactly what I was thinking. In fact it seems like the 4870 was ~300$ at launch, and the 4850 was 200-250$. I don't quite understand the complaints I guess.

 

[silverblue]

I wouldn't mind knowing what the current price of a GTX 580 is, to put all this in perspective. Let's remember that, despite the calls for lower prices, GCN isn't exactly a small chip.

 

[tmk221]

[citation][nom]nocteratus[/nom]They have to increase the price of the cards to make up for the increase in price for petroleum (crude oil)[/citation]

Yes that's right. Don't thumb him down. Graphics cards are made of petroleum...

 

[spookyman]

Price cuts benefit us all. It Means Nvidia might cut prices too.

 

[khanarx]

What the hell i waited so long for a 7750 price cut (the 7770 already got cut from 160 to 140). They need to drop the 7750 to 90$!!!!

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]au_equus[/nom]$370 for the 7970 with 5 free games at TD. O.Ohttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] EE%20GAMES[/citation]
games no one wants...wtf?

 

[Augray37]

Remember these are MSRPs. Deals are all over the place for $30-50 bucks off. There's a real nice MSI 7950 for $310 on Newegg.

 

[belardo]

[citation][nom]DjScribbles[/nom]Exactly what I was thinking. In fact it seems like the 4870 was ~300$ at launch, and the 4850 was 200-250$. I don't quite understand the complaints I guess.[/citation]And for the longest time, the 4850 was going for $100.

 

[11796pcs]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Prepare for the HD8000 series anyday now!!![/citation]
Let's hope not, it seems like I just bought my 7970. I bought it on day one, but that was only seven months ago. I expect they'll start to talk about them in November and release them next February.

 

[silverblue]

[citation][nom]tmk221[/nom]Yes that's right. Don't thumb him down. Graphics cards are made of petroleum...[/citation]
The price of oil would have an effect on transportation of materials plus finished cards. However, it's far more likely that the higher prices were down to the fact that GCN is a) noticably faster than VLIW4, and b) is a much larger die offering a significant boost to compute. That 384-bit memory interface on the top models isn't exactly cheap, either.

belardo - was the 4850 EOL at that point?

 

[verbalizer]

they need to drop them a little lower..

 

[Deemo13]

Nice

 

[SinisterSalad]

[citation][nom]Augray37[/nom]Remember these are MSRPs. Deals are all over the place for $30-50 bucks off. There's a real nice MSI 7950 for $310 on Newegg.[/citation]
I just sold off my pair of 6870s and picked that one up.

 

[wmalinowski]

Well crap....just bought a ASUS Radeon 7970 three days ago.

 

[Guest]

Newsflash: Random people on the internet are more qualified to say what the price **should** be for these cards, without any regard for supply&demand, manufacturing costs, inflation or the companies overall profitability. Probably the same people who think Obama's trillion dollar deficit in 2012 dollars is more money than Regan's 500 billion dollar deficit was in 1980's dollars. You know, back when Regan took office, a candy bar costed 25 cents, but that was probably before most of you were born...

 

[f-14]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]Back in my day (2009), mid-range cards were $200-249. Not this $299+ crap.[/citation]
you can thank bernanke and the us mint for that.
usdebtclock.org
money comes from thin air apparently.

 

[reichscythe]

[citation][nom]jimmysmitty[/nom]I remember paying $500 for a 9700Pro in 2003 when they first came out and the 9500, the mid range of the time, was $400.Pricing hasn't changed much. For a while AMD had their top end around $300 because they couldn't fully compete with nVidia but the 7 series is a major jump for them. I bet the next gen will be price the same.[/citation]

You have an awful memory... You may've paid $500 for your 9700 PRO, but the midrange cards of the time were nowhere near $400--The Radeon 9500 PRO had an MSRP of $220... the 9500 was $199... $350-400 has never been the going rate for the midrange...

 

[alidan]

what was the previous msrp for these cards... my other post never showed up and i dont feel like rewriteing more than the question again.

 

[masmotors]

what about the 6850 need to be 100 now so every joe six pack can be happy

 

[masmotors]

what about the 6850 need to be 100 now so every joe six pack can be happy