Congratulations, you just took one person's opinion (the reviewer) and claimed it as a fact.
All of AMD's cards always cost $8 for shipping when they're launched on Newegg. That was it for the 7970, and that was it for the 6970 and 5870. Also, almost all manufacturers include bundles with their cards. Even their current best bang-for-buck card, the HD 6870, is being sold left and right with DiRT 3.
But please, keep trying to make arguments out of thin air.
Hmmm, do you understand what deflecting means? It means I said one thing and then tried to move away from that initial point by saying something else. That's not what I did at all.
Again the dirt 3 is not a bundle. You get a coupon from newegg and all the cards have it. Again, if they were selling like hot cakes there would be no need for discounted shipping and a free game to be added 24 hours after launch.
Then let us separate opinions from facts. You claim the 7950 is not a high end card, fair to say this is an opinion. The review on this site says in the title that this is a high end card. I would tend to consider that more of a fact. Agreed?
That would be kind of hard since the 5870 came out in 2009 and dirt 3 was released in 2011.
I think you meant Dirt-2.
Dirt 2 wasn't even released until a month after the 5870s launched.
Doh! Ok, either way, my point stands.
Yep. Like this one. They also have a Dirt-3 edition of the 7970.Doh! Ok, either way, my point stands.
Fact that it states it, opinion none the less though.
I don't see the point in arguing for or against a company, as such I will retire from this discussion.
However if what you wanted from 40nm to 28nm was the same price structure, the same performance, with better performance per watt and better thermals you've got yourself a winner.
Personally I'll wait for a real performance increase and an increase in performance per dollar.
The difference is only one of those releases is imminent.
Wait for Maxwell.
Well that's not a good way to promote nVidia.
"Buy AMD now or Wait for Maxwell."
I'd buy AMD now than wait for Maxwell, thank you very much.
Could buy as many of them as I wanted. I didn't get to this point though just throwing around money on foolish purchases. Sorry. I bought a gtx 480 for $200 and bought a aftermarket cooler for $40. My 480 is overclocked and can match a stock 7970 in BF3 while running cooler and quieter. Still wanna have the price performance argument? Didnt think so. Overpriced and underperforming when you consider it is a new architecture and on a node shrink.
The difference is only one of those releases is imminent.
Wait for Maxwell.
The pricing only sucks because there's no competition.
Hence how NV kept the GTX580 at $500 for a year. There was no competition.
The pricing sucks because they can get away with it.
When they can't get away with it, the pricing will be the same. NV pricing is a required part of the conversation, because NV pricing along with AMD pricing drives the market.
By talking about AMD pricing you are inherently talking about NV pricing.
Enthusiast Kepler is imminent. Oh, really? Then why hasn't NVIDIA already shipped it for revenue? After you ship for revenue it takes one-two months for a hard launch.
Three months to launch is the minimum it'll take, and I fail to see how that is "imminent". Information on Enthusiast Kepler is scarce, and engineering samples have not been supplied to anyone, and if they had working samples they would've demonstrated them at recent events. That alone should tell you a lot about how "imminent" Kepler's release is.
considering the stock was really good for the HD7950 (Far better than HD7970) I would say; not bad at all to be honest
You must either be a reseller, or a magician.
Now $10 price drop on reference sapphire 7950 on top of free shipping and game. Wow. All still in stock except for ref asus card. They really missed the mark on this one. I hope amd has a long successful future in the gpu industry but it's kinda funny to see the 7950 launch go over so badly.
You must either be a reseller, or a magician.