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[wccftech] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Official MSRP Will Be $299

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A little birdie is telling me that neither the $499 nor $599 price points for the GTX980 is correct, alluding to $549 being the correct intro price.

As I said in the other thread, $549 for +10% over a 780 TI (if that is what performance ultimately ends up being) isn't terrible, but it isn't particularly exciting either. Given AMD's 290x current pricing, $549 for ~25% more performance than 290x will be compelling for those who want to upgrade and can afford it. However, I'm betting AMD officially drops 290x prices to $450 or possibly $399 shortly after or at GTX980 launch. Nvidia might be holding back on final pricing to see if AMD reacts first. All in all, if it ends up being $549 and 10% faster than 780 TI with 680/770 power consumption, it'll definitely be a more attractove option than the 780 TI's $699 launch price and 290x's $549 price launch.
 
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Silverforce11 said:
Exactly, this is wccftech being trolled by their "source" and they are too slow to figure out for themselves its just not possible NV is giving away a ~780 card with 4GB of vram for $299.

Really they should have paused about 5 seconds and thought about it before publishing such a silly rumor.
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nVidia offered a GK-104 with 2 units disabled and offered 4 gigs of ram and was around 299 MSRP. This sku may have three disabled.

The GTX 660 ti GK-104 offered greater than GTX 580( 499 MSRP) performance for 299.
 
I don't know, but nVidia lost some noticeable desktop share last quarter and one isn't going to garner share by offering an incremental price/performance when compared to a dated architecture, imho. One may still offer compelling value and still offer impressive margins for the company.
 
Imo, it would behoove them to have a $300 970. A large base of dx12/g sync capable hardware in the coming months can halt the growth of mantle and freesync, which would invaluably benefit nvidia in the long run.
 
Grooveriding said:
$299 is pure fantasy. This garbage site is trying to get page hits.
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Yeah, Nvidia is not going to hurt it's profits if they think they can sell out at a higher price point. Also if 970 is anywhere close to 780 in performance wouldn't videocard vendors or retailers lose money on existing 780 stock as price reductions would be in order if 970 is $299. One can always hope this rumor is true, but realistically I don't see it being true.
 
both freesync and mantle are totally a non issue to nvidia

Their pricing with have nothing to do with either of these.

As for the marketshare Nvidia lost last quarter, look at the context.

it is more like AMD rebounded from their chip shortage than Nvidia loosing a bunch of marketshare. AMD just about climbed out of that hole the fell in.

See, Nvidia benifited from all the sky high prices on AMD cards and gained marketshare when they really didnt even try. Once AMD supply chain was flowing and prices came back down to msrp, they popped back up to where they have been for sometime now.
 
SirPauly said:
nVidia offered a GK-104 with 2 units disabled and offered 4 gigs of ram and was around 299 MSRP. This sku may have three disabled.

The GTX 660 ti GK-104 offered greater than GTX 580( 499 MSRP) performance for 299.
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At the time they had nothing in those price range, so they needed their small die (much smaller than gm104!) gk104 harvested to fit the niche.

Currently they have 760 and 770 below the 780. Those aren't going to be replaced anytime soon. If they put in a ~780 class at $299, you would obviously know what would happen to the 760/770 SKUs.
 
It has been nearly 14 months since the introduction of the GTX 770! It has been nearly 13 months since the introduction of GTX 760! nVidia may offer a GTX 960 utilizing GM-106 derivatives at aggressive price-points as well in the near term.
 
Silverforce11 said:
At the time they had nothing in those price range, so they needed their small die (much smaller than gm104!) gk104 harvested to fit the niche.

Currently they have 760 and 770 below the 780. Those aren't going to be replaced anytime soon. If they put in a ~780 class at $299, you would obviously know what would happen to the 760/770 SKUs.
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770has already been discontinued, because you-know-what has replaced it. Any 770 out there are leftover stocks and will not be made anymore.

And 760 days are numbered too, a certain GPU model will repalce it next month.
 
tviceman said:
Anyone who thinks the GTX970 is going to be $299 is higher than Bob Marley during a recording session.
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LOL that right there is almost signature worthy 😀 and sooo very true; 970 and 980 look to be decent cards; nothing to really jump for joy......Nvidia's history there is no way they'd put it at 299 to destroy rest of their pricing structure....
 
All the speculation I am reading is assuming that they will perform faster than the GTX 780 / GTX 780 Ti. Has the performance been confirmed, or is still also speculated?

What if the $299 price is correct, and the performance matches the $299 price point?
Just curious
 
Yeah, I saw that too. That's incredibly aggressive pricing on the GTX 970 and not so much on the GTX 980. Does this mean the 970 doesn't perform as well as we thought (between the 780 and 780ti)?

I mean, this pricing makes me want to SLI...
 
I expect a $300 price for the performance it offers. I'm not going to pay $400 for the same performance levels that we've had for 3 freaking years already!!!

No one wants performance levels as 3 years old cards in the 780 and 1 year old cards like the 290.

We used to get 460,560ti,660ti,760 that had the performance of previous top level cards for the performance of mid range cards at $200 to $300, now we get utter garbage that costs $400-$500, same performance for higher prices each year.
 
$330 for 5-10% better than GTX 780 @ 145 watts is pretty incredible. Hope that holds up. The big price disparity between the 970 and 980 doesn't make sense to me though.
 
GTX970 is the mass product, GTX980 the premium one.

However, with $330 they will force to lower their whole lineup to under $300. Even with $299 for a 290X wont save them.

I have no clue what AMD will do...
 
sontin said:
GTX970 is the mass product, GTX980 the premium one.

However, with $330 they will force to lower their whole lineup to under $300. Even with $299 for a 290X wont save them.

I have no clue what AMD will do...
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The 290x is right around the same performance as the 970. So 300-350 should be fine for it.
 
sontin said:
GTX970 is the mass product, GTX980 the premium one.

However, with $330 they will force to lower their whole lineup to under $300. Even with $299 for a 290X wont save them.

I have no clue what AMD will do...
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Does it really matter? Seems like AMD is trashed no matter what they do anyways.

AMD will probably just adjust prices for now.
 
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