ATI HD 4800 Series Price Cut in Q3

[Heinz68]

AMD Plans Price Cut For HD 4800 Series In Q3
Starting from next month, AMD will cut the prices of their Radeon HD 4890, 4870, 4850 up to as much as US$50. This move is probably to lower the current inventory of their high end GPUs to make way for the RV870 series in September.

Price of HD 4890 card will be lowered from US$249 to US$199 while HD 4870 will be priced at US$149, down from US$199. Lastly, HD 4850 which we already saw the prices plummeting due to HD 4770 shortages will go below US$100 this time. VR-Zone (http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-plans-price-cut-for-hd-4800-series-in-q3/7173.html?doc=7173)
Nice price reduction if the rumor is right. The street price should be even lower.

Even before the reduction the lowest priced HD 4890 at Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=4890&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE) is $199.99, free shipping and S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky game included.

I'm more interested what the price for the RV870 (HD5870) acording to this article available is September is going to be.

[Toss3]

Nice price reduction if the rumor is right. The street price should be even lower.

Even before the reduction the lowest priced HD 4890 at Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=4890&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE) is $199.99, free shipping and S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky game included.

I'm more interested what the price for the RV870 (HD5870) acording to this article available is September is going to be.

Probably around 279$(if ATi is first to the market with DX11, then the price might be higher, but they probably don't want to redo nvidia's mistake).

[Maverick123w]

I hope that the GT300 comes out somewhere in this same time frame. As much as I've enjoyed a huge increase in performance on this card, ATI drivers suck :/

[Xion X2]

As much as I've enjoyed a huge increase in performance on this card, ATI drivers suck :/
+1. Their hardware is great (especially the edge-detect AA feature,) but the drivers for Crossfire are abysmal.

[Heinz68]

Hm here we go again


Probably around 279$(if ATi is first to the market with DX11, then the price might be higher, but they probably don't want to redo nvidia's mistake).

The HD 4870 was introduced at $299, I wonder if the HD 5870 is going to be less.

Every rumor says ATI will have the DX11 cards first. I only wonder if the HD 5870 is going to be ready in September.

There is also WR-ZONE (http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-dx11-r800-card-exposed/7154.html?doc=7154) article speculating that the DX11 chip AMD demonstrated at Computex was the mainstream segment (RV840).

[Blacklash]

Well hopefully the top dog cards of DX11 will remove the need for Multi-GPU @ 1920x1200.

I still use SLi because I don't like mins below 30FPS and can't stand approaching 20FPS.

I'd love to go back to a single beastly GPU.

I'm using a decent 1440x monitor with DVI on my AMD rig just for that reason. A single HD 4890 holds its own very well at that res. Some would consider that "overkill" and again, I like high mins.

[Buio]

I hope that the GT300 comes out somewhere in this same time frame. As much as I've enjoyed a huge increase in performance on this card, ATI drivers suck :/

I think the GT300 will be a bit later.

I do agree that ATI drivers suck and especially the control panel too.

[mascherano]

Nice price reduction if the rumor is right. The street price should be even lower.

Even before the reduction the lowest priced HD 4890 at Newegg (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=4890&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&Order=PRICE) is $199.99, free shipping and S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky game included.

I'm more interested what the price for the RV870 (HD5870) acording to this article available is September is going to be.http://imageshare.info/pictures/52f549e74f6059b69557d6453e800cc3684b2dac.jpg

probably it will be 250+

[Xion X2]

Well hopefully the top dog cards of DX11 will remove the need for Multi-GPU @ 1920x1200.



Doubt it. It seems like each generation there are games that require two GPUs to run at high res w/ AA.

[rage10]

Doubt it. It seems like each generation there are games that require two GPUs to run at high res w/ AA.

Crossfire might be necessary to run Crysis At max res and eye candy. but I doubt it. especially if your using an RV800 based card. G300 will most likely not need dual chip to do achieve the same effect. crysis 2 might require dual cards though.

[LydianKnight]

Crysis 2 might require dual cards though...

OMFG no... not another piece of crappy visual simulation pseudo-game... we need some good games taking advantage of the new power in these coming cards, not another pseudo-game that will make you wait 2012+ to run it at a decent res with full effects... that's not gaming... that's just wasting our times...

-1 to that :thumbdwn:

[CaptNKILL]

OMFG no... not another piece of crappy visual simulation pseudo-game... we need some good games taking advantage of the new power in these coming cards, not another pseudo-game that will make you wait 2012+ to run it at a decent res with full effects... that's not gaming... that's just wasting our times...

-1 to that :thumbdwn:

Meh. I still don't get all the complaints about Crysis.

I thought it was a fun game, it looked incredible and ran smooth enough for me on an 8800GTX at 1280x960 (better than 720P "HD" :p) with a mix of very high, high and medium settings.

[Sazar]

Meh. I still don't get all the complaints about Crysis.

I thought it was a fun game, it looked incredible and ran smooth enough for me on an 8800GTX at 1280x960 (better than 720P "HD" :p) with a mix of very high, high and medium settings.

Ditto.

I still play the game (both Crysis and Warhead) regularly. Very open and very fun :D

[nekrosoft13]

Meh. I still don't get all the complaints about Crysis.

I thought it was a fun game, it looked incredible and ran smooth enough for me on an 8800GTX at 1280x960 (better than 720P "HD" :p) with a mix of very high, high and medium settings.

great game, even the demo was better then some full size games.

[LydianKnight]

...I still don't get all the complaints about Crysis.
I thought it was a fun game...

It's not a boring game, I admit it, but let me explain my point:

It's ok if my machine per se can't handle Crysis, I understand my machine is not precisely the best possible machine for many games, but I can't 'tolerate' games that supposedly strive for visual realism and they leave some details out of the equation, just look at the face of the soldiers, extremely well detailed but then a big part of their armors are left with less detail...

At least games like Half-Life 2 or Mirror's Edge are very coherent with the use of color tones, gradients and illumination and they spread the geometric detail across the whole environment, not just focused points to distract you from the rest of the scene.

That's the definition of a good (or at least relatively coherent) graphics simulation, in Crysis you see very very beautiful environments, but what's the point if for delivering its HIGHEST (not just acceptable) settings simulation requires you having a hardware setup not available until two years has passed?

It's pointless for me, but it's just my opinion :P

[LydianKnight]

Well... anyway, and deviation apart, about the price reduction...

it's a great thing, I'm just waiting for the 4850 to come down a bit on price and if it gets around 80 euros I could get one for my bro, he's still using a 3650 ^_^

[Heinz68]

Well hopefully the top dog cards of DX11 will remove the need for Multi-GPU @ 1920x1200.

I still use SLi because I don't like mins below 30FPS and can't stand approaching 20FPS.

I'd love to go back to a single beastly GPU.

I'm using a decent 1440x monitor with DVI on my AMD rig just for that reason. A single HD 4890 holds its own very well at that res. Some would consider that "overkill" and again, I like high mins.

I don't think so after all Multi-GPU is ATI upscale strategy, which is more cost efficient. I believe sooner or later NVIDIA will adopt the same strategy. Even with the rumored MONSTER G300 card, NVIDIA might need the dual GPU to keep the single fastest card crown.

Personally I will be again upgrading to Multi-GPU card from NV or ATI, whatever is going to be the best deal. If the rumors about NVidia DX11 cards big delay is true, than there is only one choice for me.

I have not much need for upgrading so the DX11 is going to be the only reason for upgrading. By the way the DX11 will even improve some performance on the DX9 and DX10 cards provided the developers will implement it.

Back to the ATI price reduction rumor. Fudzila (http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/14197/34/) claims it's already here.