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.
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Geforce 9800 GTX+ to drop to ?149
Launch at €199