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ATI price drops - via Xbit

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Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Hmm branching aside, here's something I came across: http://www.elitebastards.com/forum/view...6&sid=8296aa3d85ba45bcc3a999093dfe7b3a


Seems if you disable opts (like they are supposed to be) in HQ AF with nVidia cards, you can get a substantial penalty in OpenGL. More bad news about nvidia AF as usual, guess benchmarks with HQ AF OpenGL scores will have to be revisited.
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Every site I've ever seen uses "Quality" for benchmarking. This could well be a driver bug from the looks of things, if it lets you switch the settings manually, I doubt nVidia was trying to remove the ability to take out optomizations. It would be sort of foolish to do it inconsistently like this given how drivers are scrutinized since the days of "Quack".
 
Originally posted by: FalllenAngell
Originally posted by: crazydingo
As for annoucng price cuts, they didnt. As of now this is just a rumor. And I agree with what you said, why lower prices when their cards are competitive with more features. Unless, ATI wants to hurt Nvidia when they are down. 😀
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Is nVidia "down"? Didn't they just break some sort of sales record or something like that?

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/02/18/nvidia_results_q4_fy2005/
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Financially? No.

But market position wise they are. They let ATI enjoy the high-end market for months (poor 512MB GTX availability) and now they dont have an answer to the X1900. After close to two months, they have something "competitive" (in their own words) and less features. Hence priced lower. They were relying on pricing to sell their cards. With this supposed price cuts (rumor) they dont even have that advantage.

They can however sell $600 and $800 dual gpu cards for the 2% of the market though. 😛
 
Originally posted by: crazydingo
Originally posted by: FalllenAngell
Originally posted by: crazydingo
As for annoucng price cuts, they didnt. As of now this is just a rumor. And I agree with what you said, why lower prices when their cards are competitive with more features. Unless, ATI wants to hurt Nvidia when they are down. 😀
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Is nVidia "down"? Didn't they just break some sort of sales record or something like that?

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/02/18/nvidia_results_q4_fy2005/
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Financially? No.

But market position wise they are. They let ATI enjoy the high-end market for months (poor 512MB GTX availability) and now they dont have an answer to the X1900. After close to two months, they have something "competitive" (in their own words) and less features. Hence priced lower. They were relying on pricing to sell their cards. With this supposed price cuts (rumor) they dont even have that advantage.

They can however sell $600 and $800 dual gpu cards for the 2% of the market though. 😛
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Oh well. If the products are "competitive" and the pricing is falling, I say we all win.

The differences seem small (ATI has it's HDR+AA in a couple games, Crossfire AA, some better D3d, and slightly better AF; nVidia has better linux, OpenGL, and multicard platform) so it looks to me like we as consumers win either way in a price war.

Things were getting out of hand with the X1800XTs and 512GTXs selling for around $700 at launch.
 
Originally posted by: FalllenAngell
Things were getting out of hand with the X1800XTs and 512GTXs selling for around $700 at launch.
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Yes, this looks like a much better time to buy a video card. 😎
 
The PE edition is something ATI has dropped and replaced it with the suffix XTX instead. ATI will be using this from now on.
 
Originally posted by: MrX8503
The PE edition is something ATI has dropped and replaced it with the suffix XTX instead. ATI will be using this from now on.
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ati has said that the PE suffix isn't dead.
 
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
FWIW - Monarch has both the HIS and ATI X1900XTX for $540 AR

ATI X1900XTX

HIS X1900XTX

Very tempting...
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Heh- the last ditch effort to get folks to buy a XTX before the 7900s launch. (check rebate dates)

Lower prices are always good, but I bet high end card sales will totally dry up till the 7900 launch as nobody wants to chance making a $500 mistake.

Oh well. My GTX has lasted me this long, personally I'll just see what both firms off after launch and probably stick with what I have. FEAR is the only thing I have that puts the hurts on my GTX, and one game isn't worth a card. (even a GREAT one like that!)
 
the Radeon X1900 XT will drop to $479
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But it's already at that price for certain brands at certain vendors... 🙁

I realize it's still their strong card and it will probably compete very strongly with the 7900GTX, but really, calling it a newsworthy price drop and it only really being like $20 is not very impressive or exciting. I guess the ones now at $480 will fall to around $450 and the others around $500 will drop to $480. Be still my beating heart. 😛
 
Originally posted by: yacoub
the Radeon X1900 XT will drop to $479
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But it's already at that price for certain brands at certain vendors... 🙁

I realize it's still their strong card and it will probably compete very strongly with the 7900GTX, but really, calling it a newsworthy price drop and it only really being like $20 is not very impressive or exciting. I guess the ones now at $480 will fall to around $450 and the others around $500 will drop to $480. Be still my beating heart. 😛
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No one said this was news of the century, just a a typical price drop that means good times for all! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Finny
Who knows, maybe nVidia will cut their prices even further? 😀

Doubtful, but regardless, the consumer still wins. 🙂
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i think its a change everyone should welcome with open hands especially since this may be the last big price drop we might see from BOTH nv and ati
 
Will the 7900GTX 512 be available in Canada on March 9?

And if not, then will the prices for the 7800GTX 512 in Canada remain the same or drop?

You dont have to be a Canadian to be able to answer this question. Common sense may be all thats required.

My theory is that if the Canadian prices remain the same, and if the 7800GTX 512 can be purchased through a US online reseller for such a low cost, then why would anybody get one from Canada?

For this reason, i could only conclude that prices would also have to drop in Canada.

What do you guys think?
 
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