Nvidia is dropping prices on the gtx 480,470 and 465. Fudzilla.

[happy medium]

Let the price war begin.. This is great news for all of us!

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/graphics/graphics/gtx-480-slips-to-under-€400

 

[RussianSensation]

I wouldn't be that surprised if NV were to introduce GTX475 and 485 (sneaky sneaky). I can see 384 shader part @ 700 mhz replace the GTX470 while 384 shader part @ 850 would replace the 480. I am just disappointed that ATI has not done anything about 5850/5870 prices yet.

 

[happy medium]

I wouldn't be that surprised if NV were to introduce GTX475 and 485 (sneaky sneaky). I can see 384 shader part @ 700 mhz replace the GTX470 while 384 shader part @ 850 would replace the 480. I am just disappointed that ATI has not done anything about 5850/5870 prices yet.

Thats funny ,I was thinking the same thing.

Someone posted something about a EVGA announcement (possibly a dual gtx 460 card) in another thread. It was some kind of countdown on EVGA'a site ,it exspires in a few hours. hmmmm.

Ati's having problems with 32nm and Nvidia's hitting a good stride.
This could be another price war, finally.

 

[bryanW1995]

I think that amd's lack of response so far with 5850/70 pricing is probably due to low supply. They'll start cutting prices as nvidia eats away their market share.

 

[blanketyblank]

Isn't it a little too soon to say from that article? It's talking about European prices, and from what I hear those have been just ridiculous. It doesn't really say what new prices would be in the U.S., so that doesn't sound like a price cut to me yet just NV getting their overseas sales in order.

 

[nitromullet]

Nice, vanilla EVGA GTX 470 for $270 AMIR at newegg right now. At least with EVGA, you know you'll get your rebate.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Good news. I just ordered a GTX 460. I've been using ATI for awhile now; looking forward to trying something new.

 

[tincart]

Makes me wonder whether they are looking to copy ATi's approach with GF104. GTX 460 for the mid-range, fully unlocked GF104 for the performance to compete with the 5870 and a dual GF104 to compete in the enthusiast bracket.

If that proves to be true, perhaps the GF100 chips will go exclusively to enterprise stuff where they can get a much better margin on them, given the manufacturing costs.

 

[Genx87]

That is what I am starting to wonder too. The GF100 is a monolithic chip trying to do it all. The GF104 looks like a gamers chip that fits the market. GF100 wafers can survive on the margins Telas and Quadro's provide. GF104 can thrive in the gamers market. I honestly wont be surprised if the next refresh for Nvidia is an upped GF104 with more cores to replace the 470 and 480. They have a little headroom with this core it seems. Unlike the GF100. The performance is surprisingly good and it is smaller than Cypress.

 

[tviceman]

That is what I am starting to wonder too. The GF100 is a monolithic chip trying to do it all. The GF104 looks like a gamers chip that fits the market. GF100 wafers can survive on the margins Telas and Quadro's provide. GF104 can thrive in the gamers market. I honestly wont be surprised if the next refresh for Nvidia is an upped GF104 with more cores to replace the 470 and 480. They have a little headroom with this core it seems. Unlike the GF100. The performance is surprisingly good and it is smaller than Cypress.

GF100 has several areas that can be improved from a consumer standpoint - two of which are the memory controller and over abundance of cache on the chip. Aand of course they can incorporate some of the improvements brought to the GF104 chip.

Nvidia is likely doing to GF100 what it did to NV30. The GeForceFX 5800 Ultra was a great GPU on paper with tons of great ideas, but was lacking in certain performance aspects and just wasn't 100% ready when they released it. But 5-6 months later they shot back with NV35 (GeForceFX 5900 Ultra) and the card was night and day better in every regard.

I expect nothing less than the same thing out of high end Fermi cards. And Nvidia needs to come back strong too; ATI obviously isn't resting on their laurels since Southern Islands is going to be coming out in Q4 2010 / Q1 2011.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Sure enough last week I pay 330 after rebates for my evga 470 sc and now the bottom falls out on pricing. Its a fantastic card though so I'm happy. For $270 or less you can get them for now you'd be crazy to buy anything else. Best deal on the market right now IMO. 480 still too high and ATI is smoking crack thinking we should pay more for a 5850 and over $100 more for a 5870.