GeForce GTX 200 prices indeed falling

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Yesterday we reported that NVIDIA would very likely drop it's prices for the GeForce GTX 260 and 280 to bee able to compete with AMD's offering better. As it seems, that price drop is already in effect.

Newegg shows an offering on a GeForce GTX 280 graphics card for $459.99 after a $40 mail-in-rebate and cards from other brands like Asus and Palit are also available for around $499. It seems NVIDIA is cutting the price extremely hard. A couple of days ago you had to shelve out $649 for a GTX 280 but now you can get it for almost $200 less.

Furthermore, the GeForce GTX 260 is now available for $299.99 and ZipZoomfly even has one with a $40 mail-in-rebate so the card costs only $259.

We'll keep an eye on the new price developments closely. The fun thing here is, if you pick up such a card at that price, you'll just have to say thanks to AMD for it.
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Not bad at all...
 
Great for us but bad for NVIDIA. Their taking a massive knock on their bottom line by discounting the cards, while yields are still low and its costs them a fortune to make each GPU.
They have no one to blame but themselves, but I do feel sorry for them somewhat. They overshot the mark and are paying for it dearly. Per chip AMD spends less and makes more than NVIDIA on each GT200 chip. Looks like they'll have to re-adjust their Q2 earnings projections once again.
 
ShockG said:
Great for us but bad for NVIDIA. Their taking a massive knock on their bottom line by discounting the cards, while yields are still low and its costs them a fortune to make each GPU.
They have no one to blame but themselves, but I do feel sorry for them somewhat. They overshot the mark and are paying for it dearly. Per chip AMD spends less and makes more than NVIDIA on each GT200 chip. Looks like they'll have to re-adjust their Q2 earnings projections once again.
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Got it in one, which is why I don't feel sorry for them. A bit of proper planning would've saved them a lot of trouble :D
 
They had planned it properly, that's why the GTX290 is coming in at 55nm process. NVIDIA just hadn't bet on ATI packing in 2.5X the shaders. In NVIDIA's position you would have also thought that doubling your shaders and everything else would be more than enough, but it turns out it wasn't.
GTX280 is still the fastest but 4870 is too close for comfort.
Heads are gonna rol at NVIDIA for this :o
 
well shock 2 x 4870 in crossfire are faster than a single 280

3400 x 2 = 6800

so for about the same price your getting a better product in amd, that must be a concern for nvidia

will be interesting to see what 4870x2 can do :)
 
ShockG said:
They had planned it properly, that's why the GTX290 is coming in at 55nm process. NVIDIA just hadn't bet on ATI packing in 2.5X the shaders. In NVIDIA's position you would have also thought that doubling your shaders and everything else would be more than enough, but it turns out it wasn't.
GTX280 is still the fastest but 4870 is too close for comfort.
Heads are gonna rol at NVIDIA for this :o
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I think they should've made the GTX 280 with the 55nm process from the start, since that chip is HUGE! :eek:
 
you're right they should have, only heaven knows whose the genius at NVIDIA who said go with 65nm :/
 
Praeses said:
R3500-R4000 is my guess :)
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Still thats waay to much for me, I draw the line at about 2k for a GPU. No use spending 4k on it when in 9-12 months time something better will come along! :o
 
Glordit said:
Still thats waay to much for me, I draw the line at about 2k for a GPU. No use spending 4k on it when in 9-12 months time something better will come along! :o
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Yeah I agree. Been wanting a 8800gt for yonks but only getting it now cos it's on the 2k mark
 
lol, well i reckon amd is at least getting their gpu's right, lol, I wonder if they will release a cpu that can take on intel.

Sad thing is, I can only imagine how much pressure amd is under though, i mean, they got two competitors in each market and if they don't do well, then no one will buy there product :(
 
Glordit said:
Still thats waay to much for me, I draw the line at about 2k for a GPU. No use spending 4k on it when in 9-12 months time something better will come along! :o
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High-end will always be expensive. Wait for the 9800GTif you want mid-end. Will probably be R2500 though.
 
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