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dremic

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2012 January 9th the 7970 came out. it was what 600? or 500? i cant remember.


do you think the 8970 will launch at the same price point and the same time in 2013?




those of you that bought a 7970 early on paid a premium as you saw a decline in value quickly after the launch of the 680.. would you do it again?


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I've learned not to buy best of class for this very reason. For instance I have GTX 670s and before that GTX 570s... I still can sell them for a decent price to make $ toward the next gen cards without taking a massive hit from having the best card like the GTX 680 or 690. Not to mention the difference in performance is not worth the extra $ to get the best of class card.
 
Interesting...

Maybe if AMD had issued the proper 12.11 performance drivers at 7970 launch, they would have had the fastest card out-of-the-gate so to speak, and could have kept their premium price on it much longer. Their driver support probably cost them A LOT of money.

Next go around, maybe if they can get +/- 30%(?) More performance they would try again?

Nvidia will probably come in later, if we follow the pattern.

Mind you, I got my 5870 at launch back a few years and I'm still very glad I did.
 
AMD is having financial issues, I am thinking we'll see new cards later in the year rather than January.
 
Quarter 2 of 2013 should see new AMD/ATI cards. Nvidia's new cards will come in around late 3rd, early 4th quarter...
 
PersonalJ said:
AMD is having financial issues, I am thinking we'll see new cards later in the year rather than January.
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AMDs most financially beneficial department is most likely GPUs and they probably saw a lot of profit from launching their cards earlier then nvidia.. nvidia is heavily favored i think most would agree

The Cobra said:
Quarter 2 of 2013 should see new AMD/ATI cards. Nvidia's new cards will come in around late 3rd, early 4th quarter...
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source or speculation?
 
yes get 1 and red mod it . . overclocked it runs my eyefinnity setup well. need a frame limiter for crossfire to eliminate micro studer. no regrets:p
 
As AMD is having issues so nothing is confirmed yet!!
May be we will have new cards sometime in mid summer
 
dremic said:
2012 January 9th the 7970 came out. it was what 600? or 500? i cant remember.
those of you that bought a 7970 early on paid a premium as you saw a decline in value quickly after the launch of the 680.. would you do it again?
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Smack dab in the middle actually - it was $550. However, the extra $100 paid as an early adopter tax was easily ameliorated (and then some) by the insane boost to bitcoin mining a 7970 gave. In just the ~3 1/2 months that the 7970 launched ahead of the GTX 680, I made probably ~$550 worth of bitcoins, so the card paid for itself probably just as the GTX 680 was being released.
dremic said:
do you think the 8970 will launch at the same price point and the same time in 2013?
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Hopefully not. I think AMD has recuperated some of its R&D costs so it won't be so aggressive with pricing, but then again the whole company is having financial woes. Although they have competition from nvidia, prices aren't that much lower a year later - the 7970 GHz edition still goes for $450. You can imagine that if a 8970 is at least 20%, it's no small stretch for AMD to charge $550 again (and, unfortunately, bitcoin mining is much less profitable now).
 
Everything I've heard points to march 2012 for 8990->8970->8950 release.

Hopefully when they release these new cards they'll have the same massive OC headroom.
 
Sieg said:
http://www.bitdreams.es/roadmapati.html
Nothing is confirmed yet. So calm down.
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who isnt calm ? it was a question

Mr. K6 said:
Smack dab in the middle actually - it was $550. However, the extra $100 paid as an early adopter tax was easily ameliorated (and then some) by the insane boost to bitcoin mining a 7970 gave. In just the ~3 1/2 months that the 7970 launched ahead of the GTX 680, I made probably ~$550 worth of bitcoins, so the card paid for itself probably just as the GTX 680 was being released.

Hopefully not. I think AMD has recuperated some of its R&D costs so it won't be so aggressive with pricing, but then again the whole company is having financial woes. Although they have competition from nvidia, prices aren't that much lower a year later - the 7970 GHz edition still goes for $450. You can imagine that if a 8970 is at least 20%, it's no small stretch for AMD to charge $550 again (and, unfortunately, bitcoin mining is much less profitable now).
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very insightful thank you!

it will be interesting to see what happens now that they have these financial woes definitely.
 
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