Launch at €199

Nvidia's partners are getting stock of Geforce 9800 GTX+ cards as we speak and it looks that the card is ready for July 15th launch.The card will officially launch at $229 suggested etail price in USA and it looks that the card will soon drop to €149 suggested etail price in Europe.

The first batch should be selling around €200+ in European Etail including 20 percent VAT.

After a bit higher prices at launch they will sink down in a few weeks. This will put much more pressure on Radeon HD 4870 and 4850 and will probably force ATI to move the prices down.

Radeon HD 4870 is hard to get but welling well while Radeon HD 4850 is available and also selling well, but not as well as the 4870.

As we said many times before, this will be remembered as the time of price wars.