Google will show you some around £550. Second hand £400-£450. Retailers are whacking the prices up, as allot of peeps get their student loans today.
too much for me too! i have money saved for a new graphics card but £400+ for a reference card this just sounds too much to me. £360 is what i would normally spend and thats for an aftermarket design i may wait for the 7950s to come out
Don't forget though, GTX590 is only faster because it is a dual-gpu card. 7970 is single gpu. When 7990 is released (I think that's next month) it'll be faster than GTX 590. Comparing dual-gpu cards with dual-gpu cards makes most sense
I'm not too familiar with UK retailers, but I supposedly found one for £461.82 from "HardwareKing" with no rating on Google shopping. Call me an etailer elitist if you want but I'd be very wary of that! Though I did find one from what seems like a reputable vendor for £570 which does change things. 7970 as low as £425. For reference I also found a 6990 for £500 on eBuyer which could give the 7970 a run for its money. Didn't check second hand. With the advancements in Crossfire and SLI the line between single and dual GPU and by extention multi-card setups is being blurred. There are still distinct advantages and disadvantages such as power draw, heat and space in case but they don't make single and multi GPU systems incompatible for comparison.
Was looking to buy one today, prices started off at about £450 and when i tried to buy the prices had rose to £515, thanks but no thanks
Because a GTX590 is well over £500? The GTX590 is faster (it should be) but is does have its drawbacks; chiefly: - Higher power consumption - Reliance on SLI for its overall performance - still an issue (micro-stuttering etc) - Only has 1.5GB of memory which will be an issue for multi monitor (and even 1600p single monitor) gaming. At settings where it would make most sense it would be out of memory Overclocked HD7970 Eyefinity vs GTX590 Surround would be very interesting. For reference my HD7970 was £417 (£425 including postage) not £500.....
Ebuyer - £417 including 8.98 or so postage. Came out to just over £425 including postage. Basically for a short period of time the Powercolor card they had up for £444 dropped suddenly to £417. I assumed they were reflecting the RRP drop announced by AMD and ordered one (had set myself a £450 threshold and was unsure, at that price though bring it on ). About half an hour after I purchased it, it went back up in price to £444, where it has stayed ever since. It looks like a pricing error on Ebuyers part more than anything. I think I just got lucky.
Nice one, i think i missed the boat today, it looks as though retailers relised the cards were going to sell easy for £450 so whacked the prices up
Indeed, I really wanted an Asus card but after seeing it for £529 on OCUK I nearly fell off my chair laughing. £450 was the max I would pay and as odd as it sounds I wasn't willing to spend a penny more.
You have clearly missed the point, and clearly haven't read every post before posting. £417 is a good price, but retailers are taking advantage of us and new tech by upping the price. This is why I suggested a GTX 590 would be faster and better, than dropping over £500 on a 'Should be under £400 GPU' As for Drivers and Relying on SLI to run games with a GTX 590. Drivers are spoton and scale very well with no sign of micro shuttering (Which is more of a AMD issue). As for 1.5GB of VRAM per GPU, this is more than enough for 2560x1600 and even 5760x1080. Running my old TRI SLI GTX580 1.5GB setup would max out every game with 32xAA and still run 60FPS. Crysis being the only exception. So there is no vram limitation.
yup, i bought an Asus 7970 today (at 1am, lol) and after i came back from work the cheapest Asus 7970 in stock that i could find costs £527 !
BF3 @ 3560x1920 Ultra Settings with 4xAA - over 2000MB VRAM usage.... Yes no VRAM limitation there at all..... I am not really sure why the HD7970 should be under £400 either? Granted it shouldn't be £500 but it is pitted directly against the GTX580 3GB which coincidently also costs (in the majority of cases) over £400 as well.
If a GPU only has 1.5GB of VRAM, and you are stating BF3 usage 2GB VRAM, then why could I run it fine with my usage at 1470MB @ 6030x1080? I think it's time you got off your high horse, as you have no arguement here.
Is there a definitive estimate as to when Nvidia will release its 7xx range? Reading up on crossfire issues makes for some grim reading... impossible to write it off at this stage tho
