AMD Radeon 7870- Power/ heat - Performance

[MaXiMiZe]

Yeah SieB what you say makes sense and is most likely true.

 

[SieB]

Yeah SieB what you say makes sense and is most likely true.

It's what happened with the 7970 cards so i'm just guessing really but it's the most likely reason because usually the reviews are up by now.

 

[Azurite]

Pretty nice performance. So this will compete against the 560/Ti im guessing?. I am annoyed by the prizing by amd, as the new cards should be 100-150£ less

. This just makes me wanna buy Nvidia even more

 

[ruthless_villain]

Pretty nice performance. So this will compete against the 560/Ti im guessing?. I am annoyed by the prizing by amd, as the new cards should be 100-150£ less

. This just makes me wanna buy Nvidia even more

im sorry but i dont agree with that at all, overclocked it matches a 7950, standard it supposedly performs on par with a gtx 580 and puts out a lot less heat and consumes less power @ £100 less so i do not see why they cant charge that much for the card.

if anything nvidia should drop the gtx 580 prices

 

[PEXON]

Totally agree. Its power and heat make it a good card anyway and the performance compared to other AMD and Vidya cards make it an awesome buy. It easily competes with the 570 and 580 let alone a 560Ti.

 

[PetrolHead247]

im sorry but i dont agree with that at all, overclocked it matches a 7950, standard it supposedly performs on par with a gtx 580 and puts out a lot less heat and consumes less power @ £100 less so i do not see why they cant charge that much for the card.

if anything nvidia should drop the gtx 580 prices

+1

 

[Pendragon]

I have a pair of 6870's that need replacing...

 

[kilobravo]

This i noticed today.Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB GDDR5 is to be sold for the danish market at 2799dkr=313£.UK prices will be 20-30£ less,maybe 289£ i think.

 

[killablade]

Hope those prices will drop with the release of NV cards.. looking to build a new rig in April and performance-wise these are perfect but my budget will only allow about 250 euros for a GPU.

Imho 350 euros for what's placed as a "midrange" card is OTT.

 

[Azurite]

im sorry but i dont agree with that at all, overclocked it matches a 7950, standard it supposedly performs on par with a gtx 580 and puts out a lot less heat and consumes less power @ £100 less so i do not see why they cant charge that much for the card.

if anything nvidia should drop the gtx 580 prices

yeah the performance is better than the 560ti and over or on pair with the 580, but what i ment was that this is a middle range card, similar to the 560/ti 6870/6950. And the point is that i think its too expencive. It cost the same as the 5870 at launch and that was the top single gpu card.

If Intel started to charge 450-500£ for the launch of the 3770k just because of less heat, less powerdraw and better performance i would hate that just as mucth as what amd are doing now.

If people are willing to pay silly amounts of money, thats fine by me.