According to WSJ article, Polaris GPUs will cost no more than 199 USD. First systems equipped with Polaris GPUs will be available end of June:
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is angling to lower the cost of virtual reality, targeting the field with a new line of graphics hardware priced at $199-half or less the cost of comparable products.
AMD said the first chips based on its new Polaris design are expected to arrive in graphics cards for personal computers at the end of June. The company aims to help push the starting cost of PCs that can deliver VR experiences as low as $799 from above $1,000.
(Mainstream) Game is over ? It has not started yet.
More like $199 for a ~980 or FuryOriginally Posted by vloeibaarglas
No longer a rumor. Here is the actual WSJ article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/amd-prices-3-d-cards-to-spur-virtual-reality-market-1464725394
$199 MSRP for a ~GTX 970 performance at 75 watts or less?
GG WP AMD if the card mentioned in WSJ is actually the 480.
Please demo Zen in 3.5 hours. Intel is price gouging even worse than Ngreedia.Originally Posted by bucdan
Wait... what if this is the P11? Nothing about the article says anything about P10...
Either way, if it is P10, AMD is really putting the market pricing for new cards in check, since they kind of need to, instead of playing Nvidia's game and raising prices; something AMD can't exactly compete against since people will still flock to Nvidia. But with attractive pricing, it will influence a lot versus having comparable performance for the same price of an NV card.
But look at that, R9 380 was $200 on launch, R9 480 is 200 on launch, assuming this is what the card will be. I guess AMD is going for marketshare instead of bottom line profits for this one unlike NV.
Do you really think GDDR5 costs that much? The difference in cost between a GeForce 960 2GB and a GeForce 960 4GB is only $20 on NewEgg, the actual cost difference to the manufacturer would likely be far less.
Memory is still a relatively sizeable chunk of manufacturing cost. given an old 2011 chart on costs
they had to increase the bandwidth for their card with small buses if they are using more than 32CUs the 380x does worse job than a 280x in most games(bandwidth bound resolution)