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I have a fairly confident feeling it'll be $380 for the 6970 and probably like $300 for the 6950.
lol Nvidia is going to have to make some sort of massive price adjustment...$200 price adjustment (sorry for the prev customers who paid top dollar)
If 6970 costs 275 EUR... I dunno... Really...
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prices sound way to nice, im betting on 325 minimum for 6950 and 375 minimum for 6970
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Agreed. $400 doesn't sound unrealistic for 6970.
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I'm still sticking with $299 for 6950 and $399 for 6970 to avoid disappointment.
price sounds way too low, and this is Fudzilla giving us AMD info so its probably fail
329/429 is my guess
6950 vs 6970 vs GTX 580: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18217817
This is still with the supplied default drivers that came in the box. Apparently there's some talk going about that a newer 8.851 driver offers a slight performance boost, but we'll see. Gibbo and other people were using 8.790.
ps. It includes overclocked and crossfire results too![]()
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Some other info from the link is interesting...
And this is on a launch day in UK (= quite expensive [by EU standards] by definition).Price - Sub £250 for a 6950 and sub £300 for a 6970 make these cards very competively priced!
OcUK will put its stock live sometime after midnight tonight at which time you should check the following link as we have 1000+ in stock right now!!!!
So they might be actually available for sub 300 EUR...
@ Monstru: will we see your review at midnight? I am hoping to do all the necessary research before heading off to bed!![]()
Last edited by zalbard; 12-14-2010 at 11:36 AM.
Those results seem quite good. Looks like AMD have got another 4xxx series of cards on their hands. Cheap to produce, and trades blows with Nvidias top GPU, while being cooler, quieter and cheaper to run.
It could be drivers bring the 69xx cards more life too, as it's a new arch for AMD.
I take it the 570 and 580 will be dropping in price very soon.
I wasn't going to buy a card this year, but if these things are cheap, cheap to run, cool and quiet...
Yeah my thoughts exactly. Although one thing that does concern me, is that the difference between a 6950 and 6970 at stock in those heaven benchmarks, is about 3 fps
800 core vs 880, 1250 mem vs 1375, 1408 SP's vs 1536 and only 3 fps difference?? Points to drivers IMO...
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