Graphic Cards RV870 Final Prices Announced By ATI

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We received some details about the name of the chip that ATI codenamed Cypress which we have called RV870. The internal generation codename is Evergreen and this name represents the entire DirectX 11 generation of ATI cards.

The top card is named Radeon HD 5870 but the company plans two versions, one with 2GB memory and one with 1GB.

The Radeon HD 5870 1GB should sell for $399 at launch, while Radeon HD 5870 2GB should sell for $449. At the same time, the slower Radeon HD 5850 with 1GB memory will sell for $299. The launch date for all three cards is September 23rd in Europe whereas in the US we are talking about the 22nd.

Fudzilla - RV870 pricing and name revealed

cant wait for nvidia cards

though i really want good software now for these beats

not many games utilise my gtx 295 which makes me sad

really want good games and awesome cards

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"The Radeon HD 5870 1GB should sell for $399 at launch, while Radeon HD 5870 2GB should sell for $449." -- Copied From that website.

I can say good going ATI on the price front, beat the heck out of NVidia. :)
 
$399 is still quite high for 5870.. of-course, with the kind of word flying about power these babies deliver and no real competition from Green camp, it's obvious that Red camp would wanna cash this opportunity as much as they can. If the rumor mill is true about delays at nVidia's end then I don't see these prices coming down anytime soon. :)

I think I'll try my luck by waiting till holiday season to see I get any good deals, else if the numbers are favorable I'll simply pick up 5850.
 
I don't understand one thing. Look at the processor prices in India and US. You can get the Indian price by just multiplying the dollar value to the prices in new-egg etc. For example, Athlon II X4 620 is priced ~$110 in US and here you can get one in 5.5k. Same goes about the i5 ones. But the scenarios in graphic cards are different. 4770 was priced $110 in US, Indian dealers were selling for 6500/- initially and then 7k even 8k. So who is making the extra cut ? Distributors or Dealers ? :S :@

Btw, the title says RV890 ?? :huh:
 
ATI's HD 5870 smiles for the camera

AMD's Cypress card had a short celebrity moment this morning, but as AMD likes its Evergreen to be as shy as it could be, the pictures are being pulled off the net by AMD spinners. The HD 5870, known as the Cypress, has posed for a few a bit blurry shots and have been posted at tweakers.net forum but it was pulled off due to "unknown" reason. The guys from Czech site pctuning.tyden.cz apparently don't have NDA problems on their hands and have posted those pictures as well as some other from the AMD presentation. (Next time I'm in Prague, you guys can count on a few rounds of Kozels. sub.ed.)

We already wrote a lot of details about the new Evergreen series, and this Cypress card has 1600 shaders, works at 825MHz for the core and will be available with either 1 or 2GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 5.2GHz. The cooler looks at least more serious than the one on the HD 4770 and has a rather small back exhaust thanks to two DVI, HDMI and Displayport connectors.

This is of course AMD's reference design and we are quite sure that AIB partners will eventually come up with its own solutions, at least once AMD gives them a green light.
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Fudzilla - ATI's HD 5870 smiles for the camera

Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 shaders

That is the official name
We finally figured out out the final specification of the chip that we called RV870 and the fact that AMD plans to call it Radeon HD 5870 doesn’t come as a big surprise. The chip works at 800MHz and has 1600 shaders, two times more than RV770 which indicates that the chip is two times faster than the year old RV770.

The chip has as many as 2.1 billion transistors and is more than twice the number the RV770 packs, which has 956 million transistors. The card uses GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.3GHz (5.2GHz in quad mode) and can provide more than 150GB/second bandwidth. The power of this card stays at 180W while in idle the power drops down to 27W, three times less than the 90W on 4870.

By a rough specification-based estimate, the Radeon HD 5870 could end up two times faster than the Radeon HD 4870 but realistically, you should expect the new card to be faster by about 60 percent across the board.
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Fudzilla - Radeon HD 5870 has 1600 shaders
 
@sabby
The scenario is even worse for peripherals like power supply and stuffs like premium mouse,gaming solutions,etc.
The only products whose price seem to be on par with U.S. stores are the processors,motherboards,hard disk and monitors otherwise everything else is overpriced...
For example a Corsair 750TX costs $115= Rs.5500 in U.S. while here the same costs Rs. 8400 a difference of almost Rs. 3000 thats absolutely ridiculous these people in India are charging more than 50% of the products value.
We really need a break from this distributor foxes in India!
 
iprincepankaj said:
@sabby
The scenario is even worse for peripherals like power supply and stuffs like premium mouse,gaming solutions,etc.
The only products whose price seem to be on par with U.S. stores are the processors,motherboards,hard disk and monitors otherwise everything else is overpriced...
For example a Corsair 750TX costs $115= Rs.5500 in U.S. while here the same costs Rs. 8400 a difference of almost Rs. 3000 thats absolutely ridiculous these people in India are charging more than 50% of the products value.
We really need a break from this distributor foxes in India!
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^Shipping & CUSTOMS is Exponentialy proportional to Size & weight.

Half the stuff tht is in the computer is frm CHINA. I wonder if we import directly frm source rather than getting frm States.

But of course traders here are making hay while demand shines :@
 
Actually, almost all the products that you get from USA are generally manufactured in China or Taiwan, so they go through customs twice. It's far cheaper to order directly from a Chinese ditributor.
 
^^^ But U.S. too imports most of the electronic items from Asian countries like China,Taiwan etc. and that too transported half way around the world.But look at the pricing their the difference in prices between U.S. and East Asian countries is very less compared to that between India and U.S.?
Ok i agree indian distributors are very greedy but why people like KMD import stuff from U.S. when its much cheaper in East Asia?
 
Unfortunately, the large Chinese distributors, (someone equivalent to our own Rashi) have not been able to get their act together in setting online options to sell directly to individuals in India. They prefer bulk orders only, and there lies the rub.
 
But even the companies are also playing a part in this dirty game of overpricing by not giving international warranty on their products.
At the end of the day a product purchased legally from anywhere in the world is bound to be serviced anywhere too provided they have service centers there....
 
Gowt1ham said:
^Shipping & CUSTOMS is Exponentialy proportional to Size & weight.

Half the stuff tht is in the computer is frm CHINA. I wonder if we import directly frm source rather than getting frm States.

But of course traders here are making hay while demand shines :@
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Well, the size and weight of a graphic card is not greater than a mother board or a monitor r8? And even a PSU weighs less than a monitor. :huh:
 
Well it's easier said than done guys. You need to be in the picture to actually know why the items get expensive. Leaving International shipping and local shipping aside, I will just list down a part of the number of taxes that are levied on any item from any where. Customs, Excise, Educational Cess, Excise Cess, Additional Duty, Service Tax, Local taxes like Cess and Octroi, and most of all, VAT/CST which is applied everytime the product goes into a different state. And not only that, most companies don't have an office here, so distributors have to handle the RMA, there are costs for those, and they are really high. Plus the cost of maintaining service centres etc. And add to this, the bribes the distri have to pay at the shipping yards, to the custom officers, to the tax officers and every other person in the loop. All the above is in excess of 30-40% of the cost of the product, so in the end it comes down to the prices you see. Some products do have a high margin, but they are deemed premium products, and its business to charge for them, but not atrociously.
 
^^ But when u buy in bulk from say DFI they offer at least 20-30% lesser than MSRP/retail prices in US :P
 
I guess you are comparing with Newegg right? US pricing for at least DFI is lower for only one reason. No Warranty. You need to pay 30-40$ extra per year for warranty. Add that, and you get the local pricing. Same goes for many other brands. Most of them provide only 1-2 Years warranty whereas it's 3 Years here. And most of the brands in the US have a regional HQ there, so warranty etc does not fall on them, but on the brands themselves. Here, all warranties, service etc have to be taken care by the distris.

I know this discussion can go on-and-on. So i will just bow out for now after my 2c. :)
 
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