One pic is worth a thousand words:
But, but, but, the AMD "overpriced" cards are flying off the shelves like hotcakes.
Are you suggesting AMD should be charitable and give away the cards at a lower price than people are willing to pay?
Even if AMD did underprice their cards below demand, don't you think the vendors like Newegg would happily step in and correct the error by pricing the cards at a reasonable level to meet the demand curve?
Why not "blame" Nvidia for refusing to "correct" the price of their 580 card, or refusing to release a competitor that outperforms AMD at a lower price?
Hell of a good card the 5850...it's worked reliably with no issues since purchase.
I'm looking forward to the HD7950 as a replacement,generally I skip a generation between cards(and CPUs).
I'd rate the HD5850 along side my old X1900XT as equal favorite AMD cards so far.
Well i kinda understand where you come from, but the 7970 looks so good that i decided to get it. My 5870 was the best for a while and it even kept up against newer cards such as GTX480/570, HD6970/6950.
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Hehe, makes me feel warm and fuzzy :awe:
5870 here; waiting for Kepler or price-reduced 7xxx series. In for 2 of either, depending on which is the best.
Been rocking the 58xx for a while now and love it.
Flying off shelves? They've been easily available from multiple vendors from day one. I don't remember the last time it was so easy to buy a new card at release.
I'm confident that if they'd priced each of these cards $100 cheaper, their sales would have doubled.
Lies. It was virtually impossible to buy a 7970 for the first days.
Heck, I added 300 Sapphire 7970 cards to my cart on launch day from Newegg just to see what's the stock like. 2 hours later, I could only add about 20.
20 available on launch day sounds available to me. And that's not a very scientific method anyway.
Fact is, anyone who wanted a 7970 on launch day bought one. I haven't heard a single person on this forum say they couldn't get a card. Previously released cards went out of stock for weeks at a time.
End of story. And by the way, this is a thread for 5850 owners. Do you have something to add on topic?
5870 here. I've had it since within a few weeks of the launch back in 2009. So approximately 2 years and 4 months and I'm currently playing Skyrim at 1920x1200, 4xAA, 8xAF, Ultra + tweaks for siginficantly better draw distance. And it runs at 40-60 FPS. To be honest, I don't think I've ever gotten this much value out of my hardware. On the other hand, it's quite clear that the evolution of graphics has slowed down very significantly. One could blame the consoles, but judging by the rather modest increase in performance between the HD 58XX launch and the HD 79XX launch (averaging around 70%), I'd say that we can blame the semiconductor industry as well.