AMD drops Radeon HD prices
AMD's price cuts bring will help to keep the pressure on rival Nvidia, but is the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition now overpriced by comparison?
Following the introduction of the AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition last month, AMD has dropped the suggested retail price of its standard Radeon HD 7970 boards to $429 in the US. The Radeon HD 7950, meanwhile, gets a similar price cut to $349. Both qualify for the company's 'Three for Free' promotion, providing buyers with three free games to show off the DirectX 11 capabilities of the boards.
At the lower end of the market, the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition also gets a price cut, with the suggested retail price dropping below $300 for the first time - albeit, at $299, only just. As before, the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition comes bundled with a copy of DiRT Showdown while stocks last.
AMD's price cuts, which are already being reflected in the retail prices at on-the-ball outlets here in the UK, comes shortly after the company launched its Catalyst 12.7 drivers. With the new drivers installed, Radeon HD owners can expect significant performance boosts in popular games - including a claimed 30 per cent increase in framerate in Skyrim and Batman: Arkham City along with a 15 per cent boost in Shogun 2.
AMD's new pricing strategy for its boards makes perfect sense: with the recently-launched Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition sitting towards the top at $499, the vanilla Radeon HD 7970 needed a price cut in order for it to remain competitive. With a leaked BIOS promising to turn the vanilla board into a GHz Edition, however, AMD potentially risks cutting into its more profitable sales with the new price point.
Thus far, Nvidia hasn't given any indication that it is to follow suit with a price drop of its own.
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Nice to know though... perhaps this signifies that the 660 ti is around the corner?
I don't think that news articles should expect the reader to open up other articles to find information that would have made the original article much more informative. Why didn't you add something like "The original RRP of the 7xxx was £300, the drop to £299 doesn't offer much of a saving". Just seems lazy to me.
Oh look! A simple yet informative article explaining how much the prices had dropped!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/16/amd-radeon-hd-price-drops/
You might as well have just had one line, "AMD drops prices, please do further reading to find out how much by".
Oh and that is a lovely tone of voice to adopt when explaining something to a reader.
How would that work when the GTX 660 will be produced by nVidia and as such has no connecting ties with AMD what so ever?
Thats no different to saying Intel release 3770K (this GHz edition) and the 2600/2700K (this standard 7970) drop in price because the PileDriver XXXX that no one knows much about is being released.
Fact. AMD lost masses of market share, stuffed up the channel, flooding it with over stocks at high prices and as a direct result couldnt compete with nVidia.
Price drops were then thrown in to gain market share. NOT because an unconfirmed GTX 660 is supposedly around the corner.
Internets and speculation... Chinese whispers much.
Aye ;)
Oh, and longweight chill out dude! Gareth's a nice chap, I didn't read his post as condescending at all - I read it as a compliment to the intelligence of readers of the site.
The joys of the Internet, where 85% of the meaning of a block of text is completely open to interpretation.
I am chilled out :) As you say things can be taken either way on the internet and you do have to be careful!
No worries!
I can't find them anywhere so lets assume they won't drop? T_T
You heard his voice in this article? Must have missed the link that played that, odd........ o.O
Merely read as where to find the information to me, hmmm.
Is it me or do some ppl just go looking for excuses to start an arguement?
+ rep!!
Keep the sarky to the point blunt responses coming, make me chuckle some more :D
maybe dont reply then
Epic.