Overclockers UK talks G80 pricing
Nalu is soooo DX9...we're talking about DX10 here, baby! G80 releases in a week.
We reported that G80 was going to launch on or around November 8th, but pricing info has been a little absent. Fortunately, Gibbo was kind enough to leave us a couple breadcrumbs to extract from. Though he refused to release any specific pricing, he did give a couple rough ideas.
The 8800 GTS, which is the lesser version, will be priced at roughly the current cost of the 7950 GX2. Taken from OCUK's website, that's about £380 inc VAT. Gibbo implied in his forum posts that the 8800 GTX version will run around £150 more than that, so you should be looking around the £530 mark.
So for those of you looking to jump on the bleeding edge, get your wallets ready to fall on their swords. Are you looking to buy into DX10? Tell us about it in our forums.
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Purely because I want to buy a cheap 7900gt to compliment my other one :D
Seriously though, I'm not gonna jump on Vista as soon as it's available so the whole DX10 experience is probably a minumum of 6-12 months away for me. Therefore, other than the extra grunt they might hand me in current DX9 titles, I don't see much point in adopting this one early.
As has already been said, once a mid ranged, £200 8xxx series is available, that will probably when I make the change.
Though tbh, I'll be looking to get a C2D setup first :D
Looks like the pricing is going to make this one expensive beast when I build it then!
The prices may not fall that much for the 7900gt. I had a 7800gt and was planning to go sli shortly after the 7900 series came out the 7900gt was priced less than the 7800gt and the prices for 7800 took a good 3-4 months to drop down and large amount
I may go and jump on this card for a Christmas build if the numbers are a huge jump from the current 7900 series
pm offers plz. :X
Ebuyer had em for 315/407 for GTS and GTX.
I take your point, as I did the exactly the same.
Maybe I'm being a little naive but with this not only being a new generation of cards but also a new generation of DirectX, I just thought that the current gen is gonna seem quite outdated.
This will have to be reflected in the prices of the 7xxx series surely?
I hope.
Well, if it's not, I might just sell my 7900gt and go with two 8800gtx in SLI
was hopping to get one one of these bad boys when they come in but with a mear 200 in the uk at stupid prices i think ill pass. :(
Gotta remember this isn't just another pointless release for a tiny bit more power, this is a big release, a new generation of graphics cards, so I would expect the prices to the 7000 series cards to drop quicker than say the 7800s did when the 7900s were released.
What I hate about graphics cards is that they seem to release a new one every week, it just makes buying a new graphics card that much harder, because there are thousands of cards with names only slightly different, it's difficult to tell which one is better than the other, with CPUs it's pretty obvious, bigger number usualy = better CPU, but as soon as they started adding turbo diesel to the end of graphics cards names it got a bit confusing if you don't pay alot of attention to it.
Gibbo does this with every launch and I don't honestly know how he gets away with it, other than that I guess he shifts a lot of stock.
i barely had any problems with games with an x1800xt. so for example if i had a x1950xtx and it ran everything maxed out on every game, how can the 8800's kill every dx9 card out there if the games that need the extra shader power arent around.
i dont know if anyone gets what i mean there lol. essentially what i meant was if we use oblivion as an example as its a stupidly ott gpu heavy game. you can max that out on an x1950xtx or a 7950gx2, and i cant see many games before vista being that intensive whats the point of the card lol. may aswell wait 6 months at least
That seems more on the money.
Just OcUK abusing the lack of stock to get some juicy profits on the first units.
That or were about to all be working nights aswell.
In march07 that should be what....£1750, or around that? Splendid, that leaves £750 to play with
(/me waits for Tim's single smilie response.... )
I once paid £450 for a GF3 on the day it came out.... Im never making that mistake again! I was going to wait until Feb/March anyway though.
Of course, it may come down to new video cards or trip to Europe....
Hmmm
Still, performance will be the key. Even if it is pricy, if a single 8800GTX outperforms, say, 7900GTX SLI, 7950GX2 quad SLI or X1950XTX Crossfire, then it will probably be worth the money. ;)
Oh, and does the NDA on 680i lift next week also?
:) :D
"G80..."
Price!!!
....LORD that is overkill when it comes to money...They'd better make a card that surpasses all expectations or else it will be a huge faliure!!
..Still would like to buy one..... :D :(
Saleen S7
Driving on the ceiling at 100MPH! :D
I smell mind-blowing benchmarks and a kick-ass report very soon.
Ah, I love the smell of fresh hardware in the morning...
Will the 8800GTS perform better or 7950X2 will be over it?I guess 8800GTX is too pricey for me but my thought is that the 8800GTS price will go lower as its a new card.
This means in one month 8800GTS will be cheaper than 7950GX2 - why shall i expect to be better?
Can somebody verify my thoughts.
Um, it doesnt work like that.
For starters the GX2s memory is mirrored between cards as in SLI, so it's only 512me and it has a smaller memory bus as well. Other things are also different.