Asus 6990 Listed in Europe for 627 euro's

[mnewsham]

There's no upgrade path from 460's in SLI

Sure there is, sell them in a few months for 200 bucks and spend that plus another 150 on the GTX 670 :biggrin:

 

[Arkadrel]

yep i think it will end up at $599 because I'm still remember amd slide that said they won't price their card higher than $599

*IF* a 6990 truely ends up that cheap, it ll kill 580 sales at current prices.
A product thats 70% faster than a 580... you cant expect people to buy the 580 if its priced to close to the 6990.

 

[mnewsham]

*IF* a 6990 truely ends up that cheap, it ll kill 580 sales at current prices.
A product thats 70% faster than a 580... you cant expect people to buy the 580 if its priced to close to the 6990.

Fanboy's will still buy it and people who go in to a store and only see Nvidia GPU's (my local Microcenter seems to push the Nvidia cards to eye level with the AMD cards at your feet)

 

[Castiel]

Fanboy's will still buy it and people who go in to a store and only see Nvidia GPU's (my local Microcenter seems to push the Nvidia cards to eye level with the AMD cards at your feet)

I won't. Newegg already approved my RMA for my 580 without a restocking fee. :biggrin: If the release date for the 6990 is tuesday i shall be ordering 2

 

[Arkadrel]

I won't. Newegg already approved my RMA for my 580 without a restocking fee. :biggrin: If the release date for the 6990 is tuesday i shall be ordering 2

my gawds man... what games do you play and which resolutions? O_O

 

[Mopetar]

There's no upgrade path from 460's in SLI

Quad-SLI?

Edit: Bah, seems Nvidia won't allow 460s to be used in triple or quad-SLI. Anyone know if there're any hacks to work around that limitation?

 

[Mopetar]

*IF* a 6990 truely ends up that cheap, it ll kill 580 sales at current prices.
A product thats 70% faster than a 580... you cant expect people to buy the 580 if its priced to close to the 6990.

I'm guessing that they would drop the price, or just use use most of the chips to make the 590s.

 

[ZimZum]

I won't. Newegg already approved my RMA for my 580 without a restocking fee. :biggrin: If the release date for the 6990 is tuesday i shall be ordering 2

You gotta post some benchies when you get that setup.

 

[3DVagabond]

Quad-SLI?

Edit: Bah, seems Nvidia won't allow 460s to be used in triple or quad-SLI. Anyone know if there're any hacks to work around that limitation?

It's a physical limitation of the card. You can only install one SLI bridge.

 

[wahdangun]

*IF* a 6990 truely ends up that cheap, it ll kill 580 sales at current prices.
A product thats 70% faster than a 580... you cant expect people to buy the 580 if its priced to close to the 6990.

*IF* the e-tailer won't price gouging the card like they do with HD 5970 I mean its $100 above MSRP !!!!!!!!!

 

[3DVagabond]

*IF* the e-tailer won't price gouging the card like they do with HD 5970 I mean its $100 above MSRP !!!!!!!!!

There was never any direct competition for the 5970. Hopefully, the 590 rumors are correct and it will be different this time.

 

[-Slacker-]

Heres a launch 5970 article. It notes the pricing. As of Nov 09 the 5970's were mostly 625-675 when the 5870's were 399.99

Imo, the delta between 1 6970 and the 6990 is going to be much bigger, not sure why either . Also at 5970 launch it was before Christmas and Nvidia did not have Fermi in site until March 10'.

Maybe its because these dual gpu cards are the last hurrah until 28nm , which might be 12' ?

Probably because the 5870's in the 5970 were downclocked by 15%, while the 6990 is downclocked only 6%, and also because the 6000's scale much better than the 5000's.

So the performance delta is also much bigger.

 

[Nemesis 1]

I'm pretty sure that everyone who bought a 580 knew exactly what they were getting into. Some people are willing to pay a lot to simply have the best card available, even if from a value perspective it's not worth the extra $150 over a 570 or 6970. You can even get similar performance if you run 460s in SLI which can be had for a little over $300.

Agreed . I haven't played with mine yet as the wife and daughter been playing with it along side the 6970. They been comparring IQ and both like the NV580 better.

 

[Grooveriding]

Here's another at 715 euro

http://vr-zone.com/articles/asus-radeon-hd-6990-up-for-pre-order/11488.html#