Odds that some next gen GC's or price drop will happen before Xmas?

[notigg]

what are the odds that either AMD or nvidia will release some neg generation cards before christmas? I heard a rumor but am not sure

 

[VirtualLarry]

neg generation? Is that like, cards that perform worse than the prior generation? You mean like a BullDozer CPU? I hope not.

 

[TemjinGold]

According to most recent rumors, odds are low.

 

[3DVagabond]

I'd say 50/50 for AMD. They are still saying this year, but you can't count on AMD releases being on time. nVidia has flatly said next year.

 

[know of fence]

Even if they had this stuff stockpiling in storehouses, they wouldn't release it till after the holidays in order to not confuse the x-mas shoppers. The chip roll-out is gradual starting from high- to low-end or from mobile to desktop. They can't do that in two weeks at the end of the year. It's also a different architecture, which would make driver support for both old and new cards really hard, after the current flood of game releases...

Q1, 2012 some say Q2, 2012, because their Radeon 7000HD rumors turned out to be some 40nm re-branded mobile cards. Past three generations have been released June-November.

 

[96Firebird]

Slim to none. Might as well buy now, if you want to get before Christmas.

 

[Firestorm007]

Rumors point to early Jan for AMDs high end 7 series. I would wait a few weeks and see what happens..I wouldn't buy anything this close.

 

[ArchAngel777]

I doubt we will see any price cuts until next year at some point. When several video cards are returned because they could have been unwanted gifts, not compatable, etc... I am sure this happens with most products actually. So I would expect a price cut sometime January.

 

[Concillian]

At this point, the chance of any next gen cards or significant price changes on current gen cards before Christmas is right about zero.

If you're an optimist you can still hope, but that won't change the fact that nothing significant will change before Christmas. There's only like a week and a half before Christmas. Online purchases don't have time to get to customers without paying for expensive shipping options. If they were going to release before Christmas, they would have done so when people could buy them online without 2 day shipping.

 

[Grooveriding]

Next-gen 28nm cards from AMD in the second week of January. So its a four week wait or buy something cheap today and get a fast new card next month.

 

[ocre]

Next-gen 28nm cards from AMD in the second week of January. So its a four week wait or buy something cheap today and get a fast new card next month.

paper launch........if we are luckY

 

[Grooveriding]

paper launch........if we are luckY

Paper-launch means you can't even buy the card, only see the full specs and benchmarks.

Just like the 5870 launch there will be limited supply because of new cards on a new node that are in very high demand. But like the 5870 launch, if you want a 7970 or 7950 badly enough, you'll be able to buy one after they launch next month with some good etailor camping.