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Big Price Drops on NVIDIA Cards Coming

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Rebel44

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From HardOCP.com

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1555556

Word on the street is that NVIDIA is changing UMAP pricing on the GTX 460 1GB and the GTX 470 for the better, from the consumers perspective anyway. Expect to see some fairly big price drops in the next couple of days that will bring both the cards down to previously unheard of prices. The drops on the GTX 470 will turn it into what will likely be a very well received enthusiast "sweetspot" card. The 460 looks like it will likely not fare so well on the "value meter" after Friday morning though and just how far it will fall from greatness will certainly be balanced out with how low its price goes. Bottom Line: The GTX 460 1GB and 470 are going to be getting cheap this week.
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Not a big surprise, but still good news.
 
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ability said:
Will this have any bearing on the 480 for now or will that come later..?
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Well if the GTX 470 was mobilized for the war against Barts, the GTX 480 will probably be mobilized vs Cayman, so if GTX 480 don't drop now, they might drop by the end of next month.
 
busydude said:
What are you gonna buy? A GTX 460 or a 6870? Just curious.
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no idea right now. I will wait and see how things shake out over the next week. I might even grab a gtx470 with non reference cooler if they go below $250. for the time being I am going to play some older games on the 8600gt. D:
 
toyota said:
no idea right now. I will wait and see how things shake out over the next week. I might even grab a gtx470 with non reference cooler if they go below $250. for the time being I am going to play some older games on the 8600gt. D:
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Try minecraft. 🙂
 
This basically signals surrender by NVDA.
Whatever razor thin margins they were operating on with their GTX cards just turned into damn near invisible.
@toyota...why would you buy a last gen card for roughly the same as a Bart 6870?
Seeing you are so vendor neutral...
 
Will Robinson said:
This basically signals surrender by NVDA.
Whatever razor thin margins they were operating on with their GTX cards just turned into damn near invisible.
@toyota...why would you buy a last gen card for roughly the same as a Bart 6870?
Seeing you are so vendor neutral...
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well it is just an option thats all and until I see benchmarks and actual prices anything is possible. btw I don't mind recommending ATI but I usually prefer Nvidia for myself.
 
Will Robinson said:
This basically signals surrender by NVDA.
Whatever razor thin margins they were operating on with their GTX cards just turned into damn near invisible.
@toyota...why would you buy a last gen card for roughly the same as a Bart 6870?
Seeing you are so vendor neutral...
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Why does it matter what generation the cards come from if they both support the same DX11 feature set? If one is obviously a better value than the other to the consumer, wouldn't that ultimately be all that matters?
 
Price drops from Nvidia (especially the gtx470) will completely clear the path for the 384 shader gf104 card. I'm saying 3 weeks from this Friday, if we haven't seen full on reviews from Anandtech and all the other major sites for a fully unlocked gf104 based card, to me it will mean Nvidia signaling their surrender to AMD for the rest of 40nm.
 
Will Robinson said:
This basically signals surrender by NVDA.
Whatever razor thin margins they were operating on with their GTX cards just turned into damn near invisible.
@toyota...why would you buy a last gen card for roughly the same as a Bart 6870?
Seeing you are so vendor neutral...
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I don't know if "margins" are really something that AMD can tout. You need to look at the Q3 shipment/profit numbers.
 
My credit number fingers are itching. The last card I bought was a BFG Geforce 6800 GT. $175 is my sweet spot.
 
LOL @ NVDA fanboys whistling past the graveyard:biggrin::whiste:


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Price cuts would be great...wouldn't mind a GTX 470 (was always sad/disappointed I bought a 460 instead of a 470)...but I'll try to hold off until Cayman comes out to see what it brings.
 
Good going guys; some of you have turned a thread about price drops into YET ANOTHER Nvidia vs. AMD argument. Just can't help yourselves, huh? :thumbsdown:🙄
 
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