The HD7750 is going to be an excellent value card once it drops to where it should be, but until it's around the $100 mark after rebates or all the old Juniper cards dry up in the channel, it's going to be at be at best a tradeoff of price for efficiency.
Yep. I agree with you.
This isn't exactly a new development though. From time to time you can still get a 4870 for ~$50 or a GTS 250 for $30. Why lay out a Benjamin for an ~equivalent card when you can spend half as much and get roughly equivalent performance if your PSU is up to the task?
Granted, Cypress has DX11, but you could argue that it isn't really fast enough to take advantage of it. Still, it's a selling point and all the stickers on these new GPUs are just more of the same for 2012.
That hasn't stopped people from buying the shiny stuff instead, I think some folks decide they are going to spend ~$150 or whatever first and buy something that costs about that much.
Because of AMD? AMD does not control Nvidia's MSRP. If you're going to bitch about the price of Nvidia's video cards, then lay the blame squarely at the feet of the company actually responsible.
NVIDIA.
Haha, common sense fail. Come on Creig, since when do companies set their own prices for the things they make? I've got some kool-aid over here for you that will set you nice and straight... /endextremesarcasm
My Liberal Arts education is not failing me here. Some folks need to take an economics class. Supply and demand... A producer picks a spot for them to intersect in order to maximize their profits based on projections and adjust prices to meet reality. If they cannot make a profit they exit the market. Competition is essential to keep monopolistic behavior to a minimum...
Any sane enthusiast should be worried that AMD is going to exit the high end desktop CPU market, not that AMD and Nvidia will be selling $2k GPUs next year. We are lucky that the market is as competitive as it is on the GPU side.
Don't like the current prices? Don't buy them. I am pretty sure this is how modern economic theory works at an individual level.
You may find out that others are willing to pay the premium. I would pay ~$700 for a MacBook pro in a heartbeat. Too many other people are willing to pay more