Since Nvidia has the 180 series driver and is actually winning with Geforce GTX 260 with 216 Shaders in many popular games, ATI is readying to slightly adjust its price in order to put more pressure before the final Xmas shopping spree.
We’ve learned that ATI will drop its price by about $20 to
channel which should result that these cards will get around $20 cheaper for
customers around the world. European customers should see prices down by about
15 euro, which will give ATI a better fighting chance.
At the same time, ATI knows that they don’t have PhysX and
there is a big rumour that the upcoming game called Mirror’s Edge might really
push PhysX like never before. This is the first price reduction of RV770 based cards
since launch which definitely proves that ATI did a good job and managed to
sustain its launch price since it launched the card months ago.
As of this morning the European prices have started to drop from €200+ to €180+, and you can get Sapphire's HD4870 for €184 here.
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