Graphic Cards AMD Radeon HD 6870 Gets Another Price Drop

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Source: AMD Radeon HD 6870 Gets Another Price Drop - Softpedia

Softpedia said:
Back in January, as a response to the successful launch of the GTX 560 graphics card, AMD has announced that it has cut the price of the Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 GPU's and, apparently, this seems to happen yet again as a wide series of HD 6870-based graphics cards started appearing online for as low as €160.

Compared to what the cards retailed for at the end of last week, this represents a €30 price reduction, right now various HD 6870 graphics cards retailing for somewhere in between €160 and €170.

One of those video boards is the PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 which is now listed at €160.84, while the factory overclocked PowerColor Radeon HD 6870 PCS+ is available for just €177.

XFX also has a card that has dropped in price in these last few days, the XFX Radeon HD 6870 900M which can be purchased for €170.

In the coming days, the prices of other solutions based on the HD 6870 graphics core should settle in the €160-€170 price range.

This will put the Radeon HD 6870 right between the €200 Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 and the €145 GTX 460.

The Radeon HD 6870 graphics card is based on the Barts XT core and was AMD's first graphics card to be released into the HD 6000-series product family back in October of 2010.

Compared to the HD 5000-series video boards, Barts XT offers better tessellation performance as well as other architectural improvements.

The Barts XT core features 1120 stream processors, 56 texturing units, 32ROPs and a 256-bit memory bus which connects to 1GB of GDDR5 memory.

AMD has set the GPU clock at 900MHz and the memory chips are run at 1.05GHz (4.2GHz effective). (via ComputerBase.de)
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^^ I guess US MSRP is down to 199USD from 229 USD and 6850 should be down to 159$ to counter the GTX 550 Ti launch on March 15 :)
 
Aman27deep said:
I'm wondering how ATI earn its profits? :/
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they're earning enough, the chip is 255mm^2, or lesser. That makes it cheaper to make than HD4850(due to mass GDDR5 adoption).

Now HD4850 was even cheaper than this remember?
 
Arjun said:
How much should a 6850 cost in India after this cut?
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No one really can't say how much HD6850 wud cost in India after this price cut... coz in india even a 250$ (Rs.11250) card sells for 300$ or above in india (Rs.15000)...
 
Within 3-6 weeks you will see 6870s selling for around 9-11.5k or so.

6850s may become less popular or may start selling around 6.5-8.5k or so.
 
rite said:
Within 3-6 weeks you will see 6870s selling for around 9-11.5k or so.

6850s may become less popular or may start selling around 6.5-8.5k or so.
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6850 > 5770? So they'll still sell well IMHO.

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comp@ddict said:
they're earning enough, the chip is 255mm^2, or lesser. That makes it cheaper to make than HD4850(due to mass GDDR5 adoption).

Now HD4850 was even cheaper than this remember?
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Oh yeah i do now :P
 
Mephistopheles said:
Can I hope to buy 6870 <12k within 30 days?
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Today I went to AKSHAY ENTERPRISE KOLKATA (XFX Dealer) for price query and they said that 6870 is 13k,6950 2GB is 16k and 6850 is 10.5k. thats all vat excluded.
 
samurai ranger said:
Today I went to AKSHAY ENTERPRISE KOLKATA for price query and they said that 6870 is 13k,6950 2GB is 16k and 6850 is 10.5k. thats all vat excluded.
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that effectively translates to 12+k
see i told you mephisto
it'll take some time
@Samurai
dude the way you are Highlighting the dealer name, i began to supect you being a rep or something;)
 
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