Nvidia to gatecrash the AMD Radeon 300 party with the GTX 980 Ti?

[HEXUS]

Ti could be released in September, depending upon what AMD shows off at Computex.

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[Bagpuss]

"helping Nvidia hit a more reasonable price point"

Lol..no such thing for a Nvidia top tier card.

[KeyboardDemon]

This just reads like the typical speculation that we get to fill the dead space during that period of waiting for NDAs to lift.

[shaithis]

I wonder if these will come in at the current 980 price and the 980 get discounted to the pricepoint they should be at?

[HalloweenJack]

they`ll be picthed between the £400 gtx 980 and the £1000 titanx - so my guess would be over £599

[azrael-]

What'd really kill me would be if the R300 was more potent than even the 980 Ti (or Titan X for that matter).

It's a pipedream, I know, but wouldn't that just be hilarious?

[kalniel]

This just reads like the typical speculation that we get to fill the dead space during that period of waiting for NDAs to lift.

Hehe. But it's also quite likely. nVidia have a product in the wings, if they are already able to produce Titan X, so it's just about market conditions - they have nothing to gain from releasing it now aside from hurting their existing product sales.

I'm pondering the same thing as shaithis. I expect a lot will depend on 300 series pricing and performance - I would expect the 980 to come down a touch, but there could be quite a lot of room at the top end for high prices if the top 300 card is also costly.

[yeeeeman]

Why not to sell a card at twice the price if you can? Isn't that true NVIDIA?

[kalniel]

Why not to sell a card at twice the price if you can? Isn't that true NVIDIA?

It's true with anyone. But we're trying to guess what the 'if you can' price is.

[shaithis]

Why not to sell a card at twice the price if you can? Isn't that true NVIDIA?

It's capitalism. Whether it's right or not is another story. Lets not forget how AMD have magically halved the price of certain high-end cards in the past.

[Tunnah]

I wonder if these will come in at the current 980 price and the 980 get discounted to the pricepoint they should be at?

they`ll be picthed between the £400 gtx 980 and the £1000 titanx - so my guess would be over £599

It'll be in-between the 2. The 980 will get a price cut, and the 980Ti will go a little above the current price of the 980.

With the 780Ti it came in only $50 more than the 780, and the 780 was cut by $150, but this is because the 290X came in with good performance/price compared to the 780 so the Ti couldn't justify a $200 price premium on the then current price of the 780.

As for the 970 it *might* get a price cut, but not as drastic, as it's already a very potent card for the price, as the x70 cards tend to be (I've always preferred 2 x70 cards in SLI over a top end card, the performance is always better than a single x80 and very rarely is there a real world noticeable problem with SLI, hell I was gonna get 2 980Ti's for when I go 4K because I didn't think 2 970s would cut it at 4K but seeing as the need for AA is pretty much none-existent at 4K I'm gonna go with 970s instead...on a 65" TV, unf!), so any cut would be more likely only be in response to a stormer of a card from AMD..but honestly I really don't have any faith in them. Even when they bring out stronger cards they're always topped in a few months by nVidia, in a spectacular way, either heat, performance, or reduced power..or in the case of the 900 series, all 3.

[kingpotnoodle]

I wonder if these will come in at the current 980 price and the 980 get discounted to the pricepoint they should be at?

What price "should" it be at?

Every company will attempt to price something for what makes them the most money, which is usually the highest price at which they can still shift their inventory. If you think it's overpriced then you'll have to convince the whole world to stop buying until it falls...

[gary2112]

People complain about the price of hardware ,the simple fact is as long as people keep buying at this price they will keep the price as high as then can its are own fault.

[KeyboardDemon]

What'd really kill me would be if the R300 was more potent than even the 980 Ti (or Titan X for that matter).

It's a pipedream, I know, but wouldn't that just be hilarious?

I'd like to see that. It's about time AMD managed to hit us all with a real game changer. I'm not saying I would jump camp if they did as I now have a G-Sync monitor and it would be too expensive to change monitor and GPU, but I do want to see AMD riding high once more.

People complain about the price of hardware ,the simple fact is as long as people keep buying at this price they will keep the price as high as then can its are own fault.

The market has created certain 'acceptable' price points through 'price conditioning' by marketing gurus in the industry, the fact that we have people guessing what the price point will be, based on previous hard and the price points these were at shows how well price conditioning works. Occasionally a company will surprise us by releasing products at lower or higher points than the market was expecting, I do recall nVidia did this quite recently when they launched the 9xx series cards, if I'm not mistaken, I don't know if it's a new trend though.

[shaithis]

What price "should" it be at?

970 price (or there abouts)......just like most other nVidia 256bit cards have been. This and the 980 and 680 seem to have come in at premium prices without the premium specs.

[ZaO]

Computex is in June. So, it's still gonna be a few months until Amd get these new cards out? I thought it was gonna be way sooner.. maybe this month.. Dunno why I thought that. I've read so many Amd rumours lately that it's getting all junked up in my head :/