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Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X 1GB Review Comment Thread

SKYMTL said:
I am sure NVIDIA is kicking themselves in the butt right now because this would be a perfect situation where they could take some major market share away from AMD if they only had a card ready.
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Thing is here that I think NVIDIA is going to have to make some hard decisions...

Rely on this lack of availability to ride out the storm in light of the lack of their own DX11 answer, thus hoping that since no one in any really significant numbers can actually get a 5800 series card, people won't have already made their upgrades by the time their new cards are ready...

. . . O R . . .

Take advantage of the lack of DX11 titles, slash prices significantly on 295 and 285 series cards and take the financial hit right now in the hopes of filling as many PCs as possible with NVIDIA cards so that, people will opt for the available DX10 cards over unavailable DX11 ones. Then, when their new cards are ready, people may be more motivated to stick with NVIDIA.

That said, as much as I like lower prices as a consumer, I don't want to see either of these companies fail because it is the back and forth between these two that is pushing performance and energy efficiency.


Cheers!
Morning_Post_Canuck
 
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From what I hear, they are already loosing money on every GTX 295 and GTX 285 sold....
 
SKYMTL said:
Methinks the person who buys this card will likely be replacing it within two years anyways...
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Quite likely, but it's always nice for some extra resale value or if you use it in a friend's computer. 3 years would be more acceptable IMO, oh well.
 
Surfer_2099 said:
Rely on this lack of availability to ride out the storm in light of the lack of their own DX11 answer, thus hoping that since no one in any really significant numbers can actually get a 5800 series card, people won't have already made their upgrades by the time their new cards are ready...
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There is no other option. nVidia probably isn't too worried. So what if ATI was the first outta the gate this time, doesn't mean nVidia won't sell any cards. With shortages in stock ATI cant be moving that many anways, plus if nVidias new cards come out and spank ATI up one side and down the other people will still buy the nVidia cards, even if they just bought an ATI card. Personally im waiting for GT300 over the 5800s.. could result in better performance or a new pricing war of somekind.. either way no rush.
 
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UPDATE!!!

Card began artifacting in 2D mode but is stable and artifact-free in 3D.
 
Yeah, would you say it's a bad card due to it just being "bad", or bad because it's an early sample?
 
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