AMD price cuts

[antef]

Hi all, looking at these prices and thinking about the boost Mantle could provide, as well as just the general fact that AMD is in all the next gen consoles, I'm thinking about selling my ASUS 660 Ti for a 7950, hoping by selling it maybe can even break even on price, even though I have absolutely no performance issues today. I only game at 1920x1200, but just thinking about performance on future games, the extra memory, and something I could hopefully keep for a couple years at least. Or based on the perf of a 660 Ti and my resolution, is it probably not worth it? Would like to hear what you think!

Well the PowerColor for $180 AR is sold out now, so I guess that makes my decision for me. It's usually not good to buy based on speculating what will hold up better 1-2 years from now anyway. I just hope the 660 Ti is solid until 20nm comes along, I don't expect any significant advances in performance/watt before then.

 

[NTMBK]

Resisting the urge to pick up a second 7770 on the cheap, now that they're fixing Crossfire stutter...

 

[blastingcap]

The quietest 7950 ever made is only $180, while NV charges $250-$300 for 760 2-4GB cards. 1Ghz 7970 can be found for $280 (either Sapphire DX or Gigabyte Windforce 3x). NV's closest performance competitor is GTX770 2-4GB which sell for $380-450.

This reminds me of 4850/4870 days. NV's cards ATM are insanely overpriced for what you get.

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/grafikkarten/2013/nvidia-geforce-gtx-760-im-test/4/

It's mind-boggling to think you can get 1Ghz 7970 and have $170 left over towards an SSD/next GPU upgrade compared to a 4GB 770. 4GB 760s are > 60% more expensive than a 7950!

And then there are the bundled games as well. AMD is wrecking NV in price/perf right now.