More AMD price cuts - They've gone crazy!

[MooseParade]

Logged on this morning and saw that AMD's price cuts have hit the 7970. Yesterday we saw the 7950's dip to $280 ($260 after MIR) and today they dropped another $10 to $270 ($250 after MIR). The 7970 today is listed at $330 ($310 after MIR). Both the 7950 & 7970 mentioned are Sapphire models. 

 

Sapphire 7950 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202026

 

Sapphire 7970 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202008

 

Sapphire 7970 Vapor-X $370 ($350 after MIR) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202001

 

After watching Linus' unboxing of the 7990 this morning I realized you could get 3 7970's for the price of one 7990. Oh AMD, you guys are crazy.

 

[felixbearpig]

they are getting really despreate. 4 games and good gpu ? somebody is losing money

[GamerDude]

they are getting really despreate. 4 games and good gpu ? somebody is losing money

I read your comment, then looked at your sig, specifically GPU, then I wondered if it's a fair/unbiased comment..... :rolleyes:

[PCBudgetSolutions]

The regular hd 7970 was 299.99 last week.

[felixbearpig]

I read your comment, then looked at your sig, specifically GPU, then I wondered if it's a fair/unbiased comment..... :rolleyes:

think about it. 4 games= $200-$160, so 7950 for $50-$90 sombody is losing money 

[Mo5]

think about it. 4 games= $200-$160, so 7950 for $50-$90 sombody is losing money 

they probably haven't paid 200$ for 4 games... Probably more like 50$. Buying a huge amount of something gives you a massive discount.

[qwertywarrior]

think about it. 4 games= $200-$160, so 7950 for $50-$90 sombody is losing money 

u have it the other way around i think

[MooseParade]

The regular hd 7970 was 299.99 last week.

 

I believe that was just a sale. These are actual price drops..

[wkronbaek]

Well i guess they just *puts on sunglasses* never settle

YEEAAAHHHHH

[bradscoolio]

think about it. 4 games= $200-$160, so 7950 for $50-$90 sombody is losing money

Such a simple part of business, so easily forgotten: buy cheap sell at a profit.

No way anyone you sell at a loss.

[Keystone Nyan Cat]

think about it. 4 games= $200-$160, so 7950 for $50-$90 sombody is losing money 

Those same games are selling for less than 80$ here. Now imagine AMD is only paying 15-30$ per bundle. I would say they are making quite the profit since everything, from manufacturing the cards to transportation cannot be more than 150$.

[felixbearpig]

ok i get it......lol

[SSOB]

RIP Nvidia

[Lukiose]

Someone didn't take economics class :P

Way to go AMD, price drops in anticipation of next gen perhaps?

[Skanic]

AMD does not pay for the never settle games.

[iAsuno]

Well i guess they just never settle

YEEEAAAAHHHH!!

[GamerDude]

think about it. 4 games= $200-$160, so 7950 for $50-$90 sombody is losing money 

No, they aren't, anyway, they purchased the game bundles in bunk, definitely much lower (if at all) than the retail price I can tell you that. It's better than nVidia.....you've heard the talk? They deliberately priced the GTX Titan astronomically @999USD, then when they released the GTX 780, it was at a 'reasonable' 650USD and whoa, all the nV fanboys gave thanks. :rolleyes:  Believe me, IF AMD release their VI and priced their top tier single GPU card @999USD, I ain't going to touch it. Yes, I like ATi/AMD, but $999 for a single GPU card? Nope, no way in hell. Besides, I have faith in AMD, I believe their top tier single GPU VI would be around 600-650USD. Right now, nVidia is creaming everyone and just focused on making money, not about giving back to buyers......AMD is doing this with the game bundle.

 

So, what games did you get with your uber priced GTX Titan? :ph34r:

[felixbearpig]

No, they aren't, anyway, they purchased the game bundles in bunk, definitely much lower (if at all) than the retail price I can tell you that. It's better than nVidia.....you've heard the talk? They deliberately priced the GTX Titan astronomically @999USD, then when they released the GTX 780, it was at a 'reasonable' 650USD and whoa, all the nV fanboys gave thanks. :rolleyes:  Believe me, IF AMD release their VI and priced their top tier single GPU card @999USD, I ain't going to touch it. Yes, I like ATi/AMD, but $999 for a single GPU card? Nope, no way in hell. Besides, I have faith in AMD, I believe their top tier single GPU VI would be around 600-650USD. Right now, nVidia is creaming everyone and just focused on making money, not about giving back to buyers......AMD is doing this with the game bundle.

 

So, what games did you get with your uber priced GTX Titan? :ph34r:

i didnt get it for the games. i got it for the productvity aspect of it, a card that is a quattro and gtx, thats why i got it

[GamerDude]

i didnt get it for the games. i got it for the productvity aspect of it, a card that is a quattro and gtx, thats why i got it

Sure, if you run a lot of programs that uses the CUDA cores, then yeah......good fallback response btw. ;)

[MyLaptopSucks]

So at 250 bucks, the 7950 is the same price as a 760... and has significantly more performance.

[TechTheWorld]

Are they going to release something big?

[IGJoe2192]

I read your comment, then looked at your sig, specifically GPU, then I wondered if it's a fair/unbiased comment..... :rolleyes:

 

 I thought the same thing, I also read your stats and realized you have basically the same setup I have been looking into, though now I am going to wait for the LGA2011-E chips and boards to come out, I think it is worth the wait for DDR4

[ShiverMePenguins]

i didnt get it for the games. i got it for the productvity aspect of it, a card that is a quattro and gtx, thats why i got it

quadro. and no you didn't.

[ThunderShark]

So the 7970 GHz edition is less than the 770. How does NVIDIA compete with that?

[Fetzie]

i didnt get it for the games. i got it for the productvity aspect of it, a card that is a quattro and gtx, thats why i got it

Don't forget that CUDA is now EOL with Adobe products, they've moved over to OpenCL.