#4426538

Undying

2012-10-08 11:24

Good move for AMD, i saw HD 7850 for around 150€

#4426547

Agonist

2012-10-08 11:48

I just might be able to afford a HD 7850 now. Honestly I havent seen a worthy card to upgrade too that wasnt over $200+ at the minimum since I have bought this card. I paid $160 for it 2 years ago. Hell I didnt get an upgrade over my 4870 performance wise but I did go from 512 to 1gb vram and alot better power consumption plus dx11.

#4426591

Lane

2012-10-08 13:07

Specially if the 650 TI dont match the 7850. They was a big gap between 7770 and 7850, look like the 650 - 650 TI just hit in the middle of the gap. This price should just make the card more appealing. At the same time, thoses cards are out since a while now 7-8month and we slowly approach the end of the year.

#4426619

sverek

2012-10-08 14:32

maybe about time to try out 78xx crossfire.

#4426626

Solid_State

2012-10-08 15:04

Wow those upcoming 8000 series card's must be performing really well, make way!

#4426791

vejn

2012-10-08 20:46

When will Nv drop prices for gtx 660 non-ti ?

#4426798

Undying

2012-10-08 21:01

Is a 7850 a worthy upgrade from a GTX460 768mb @1080i I dont put alot of AA on anyways. Even thou the GTX460 plays every game good I feel I need to upgrade 🙂

If you feel GTX460 is fine dont upgrade. Wait for even more price drops, maybe even GTX660 ti? 😉

#4426848

---TK---

2012-10-08 22:34

geez another price drop

#4426879

deltatux

2012-10-08 23:38

geez another price drop

As a consumer, I love price drops, see no reason to hate them lol. deltatux

#4426886

---TK---

2012-10-08 23:47

yeah price drops are good, just wondering what keeps happening to cause all these drops as the gpu line are very good in comparison to nvidia

#4426888

Kaleid

2012-10-08 23:53

I'm tempted to get another 7750 but I don't really like crossfire (or SLI).

#4426891

deltatux

2012-10-09 00:02

yeah price drops are good, just wondering what keeps happening to cause all these drops as the gpu line are very good in comparison to nvidia

Better scaling in production? There could be a lot of reasons, but I think they just want to have the competitive edge against NVIDIA. I was very close in getting the NVIDIA GeForce 560 compared to the Radeon HD 6870 when I was looking to buy a new graphics card in summer 2011 but the local computer stores here suddenly dropped the price of the Radeon HD 6870 and it was enough to automatically got me to get this card, the price for performance was a lot better than NVIDIA GeForce 560, sure it doesn't beat it in everything, but for the most part it's on par or best it. Companies know that many people rather save money if it means sacrificing a bit of performance for it. deltatux

#4426906

sykozis

2012-10-09 00:27

As a consumer, I love price drops, see no reason to hate them lol. deltatux

Only reason to hate them, is if you bought them early....and are now trying to get rid of them for some reason...

#4426911

AndreasGuido

2012-10-09 00:43

well if 7950 drops to $189/£117 i might get one and wait for 8000 series

#4426915

sykozis

2012-10-09 00:49

HD7950 won't drop to $189.....that would make HD7700 series worthless..and would run off a lot of their customers like me that buy cards with the intention of selling them later as HD7950 dropping to $189 would put the HD7870 at around $125-$150......roughly 1/3 it's original selling price...

#4426917

Lane

2012-10-09 00:57

well if 7950 drops to $189/£117 i might get one and wait for 8000 series

No hope seeing that, or really the only case could be a shop who start liquid his stock the days the HD8950-8970 are released.

#4426919

AndreasGuido

2012-10-09 00:59

No hope seeing that, or really the only case could be a shop who start liquid his stock the days the HD8950-8970 are released.

i meant 7850 🙂