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just brew it! wrote:I did call it a rumor. And, yes, it *is* fudzilla, and they get things right a fair bit too. They were dead on for the 7970 / 7950 stuff by the time it got to a this close to the launch.And it *is* fudzilla...
flip-mode wrote:As for heat - if power consumption has become the chief characteristic of video cards these days and the reason for their pricing rather than based on performance, then the world has changed and I missed it. $185 for 6850 level of performance is officially a rip off, and I'm hoping the rumor is wrong.
flip-mode wrote:So if those two rumors are true then AMD is about to treat us to the least progressive GPU launch in history, I think. Heck, that's regressive!
DancinJack wrote:flip-mode wrote:So if those two rumors are true then AMD is about to treat us to the least progressive GPU launch in history, I think. Heck, that's regressive!
You're only taking price into account though. Now, I'm not saying that I don't want the prices on the whole 7 series of cards to be lower but they have done some new things with this series that I feel like you're not taking into account.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/22192/5
http://techreport.com/articles.x/22192/7
http://techreport.com/articles.x/22384/11
http://techreport.com/articles.x/22384/12
Just sayin'. It hasn't been THAT bad. You just don't want to pay that much for the stuff they decided to include this time.
flip-mode wrote:But it's looking like I'm the only one that feels like 6850 level performance for $185 is a bad bargain these days. :shrug: Perhaps AMD is pricing it right then.
I wrote:$185 still seems rather high for a launch price.
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I for one would be willing to pay (somewhat) more for the same level of performance and lower power consumption. But given the street price for 6850s these days, not *that* much more.
vargis14 wrote:Considering its made on a 28nm node you would think that would offset the price since many more 7770 chips can be produced compared to a 40nm 6850/6870 on the same wafer.
just brew it! wrote:My bad!flip-mode wrote:Only if you've been selectively ignoring what I've been posting in this thread:But it's looking like I'm the only one that feels like 6850 level performance for $185 is a bad bargain these days. :shrug: Perhaps AMD is pricing it right then.
ultima_trev wrote:Gaming performance should be the only metric that hints at a GPU's price.
just brew it! wrote:ultima_trev wrote:Gaming performance should be the only metric that hints at a GPU's price.
OK, I'll bite. Why?
Even if you're not trying to "save the planet," shouldn't less heat and noise, and the option of using a less expensive PSU be worth something?
derFunkenstein wrote:On the opposite side of the "lower power = price premium" coin you have the fact that it's less expensive to produce smaller dies and less-intricate cooling solutions. It's as much a benefit for AMD as it is for the end user, and to me that premium should (mostly) cancel out.
JBI wrote:Only if they're not having yield issues on the smaller process.
derFunkenstein wrote:On the opposite side of the "lower power = price premium" coin you have the fact that it's less expensive to produce smaller dies and less-intricate cooling solutions. It's as much a benefit for AMD as it is for the end user, and to me that premium should (mostly) cancel out.
clone wrote:given the launch price for HD 6850 was $179 and HD 7770 is only $6.00 more I don't see the problem.
UberGerbil wrote:/wavesHyperbole? On the internet? Among tech enthusiasts? Unpossible! (I agree, when I clicked on the link I was expecting to see something far more grave / dire / important than this)
flip-mode wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:On the opposite side of the "lower power = price premium" coin you have the fact that it's less expensive to produce smaller dies and less-intricate cooling solutions. It's as much a benefit for AMD as it is for the end user, and to me that premium should (mostly) cancel out.
It's also 128 bit versus the 256 bit 6850.