AMD and Nvidia price cuts ...

[Nod]

Source: AMD
Source: Nvidia

R9 390X & R9 390
Original MSRP : $429 & $329
Down To $379 & $279 – $359 & $259 After Rebates

GTX 970
Original MSRP : $329
Down To $289, $259 After Rebate

More at the links above ...

 

[Pitbull]

Source: AMD
Source: Nvidia



More at the links above ...

Bleh blocked ...

Will check from home. Maybe it's time to upgrade to a R9 390X

 

[Lawnchairman]

With the Rand losing more and more value to the Dollar does this even matter anymore?

 

[reactor_sa]

Means nothing if you are buy locally, unfortunately

 

[Nod]

 

[DanDango]

With the Rand losing more and more value to the Dollar does this even matter anymore?

^^This

 

[Electric]

Even with the reduced prices we will only see the impact of this next year some time.

 

[Pitbull]

With the Rand losing more and more value to the Dollar does this even matter anymore?

Means nothing if you are buy locally, unfortunately

Come on guys really?

It's almost $100 drop in price. Unless the rand doubles it's still a pretty damn good drop.

 

[Electric]

Come on guys really?

It's almost $100 drop in price. Unless the rand doubles it's still a pretty damn good drop.

No retailer here will adopt those prices yet.
It's already christmas so they will milk it until next year.

 

[Fulcrum29]

They do this every year, and we don't get rebates.

 

[Pitbull]

No retailer here will adopt those prices yet.
It's already christmas so they will milk it until next year.

That's very true and I get that.

But by February - March I'll be getting myself a R9 390X

 

[CataclysmZA]

Price drops are only for the holiday season. AMD did it first, and then NVIDIA dropped the prices of their GTX 900 series in response.

 

[ponder]

This is irrelevant to us here in SA, price drops are for the USA only, also just for their holidays..

 

[ponder]

No retailer here will adopt those prices yet.
It's already christmas so they will milk it until next year.

This does not apply to any market outside of the USA.

 

[Fulcrum29]

This does not apply to any market outside of the USA.

I am sure Canada will get the same discounts and rebates. NCIX and TigerDirect has similar pricing as Amazon and Newegg.

 

[ponder]

I am sure Canada will get the same discounts and rebates. NCIX and TigerDirect has similar pricing as Amazon and Newegg.

Not according to that Linus guy that lives in Canada, https://youtu.be/5KW2XOS_Gw8?t=9m38s

 

[Fulcrum29]

Not according to that Linus guy that lives in Canada, https://youtu.be/5KW2XOS_Gw8?t=9m38s

What did he say?

 

[Electric]

This does not apply to any market outside of the USA.

I agree I just wish I wasn't so damn inclined to buy a card in the next 3 weeks

 

[CataclysmZA]

What did he say?

That AMD's basically only doing it for the US markets. Europe will also see price cuts, but with a less aggressive rollout, as will Canada, but it won't be immediate. Linus has revealed before that AMD's activity in Canada is typically not very aggressive because of the exchange rate at the moment, so they have similar issues to us, though they're a bigger market. That was also the case back in his NCIX days, but for different reasons.

 

[Nod]

It's a shame that the new Zen CPU's will only be released Q4 2016, according the same website.
But, on the other hand, the AMD Fury X2 will be released this December, which could lead to some price drops, but probably nothing before next year.