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Radeon HD 5850 is getting more expensive

Apparently AMD is selling quite a lot of Radeon HD 5850s at the moment. But due to higher production costs, the company will increase the price of the DirectX 11 graphics card.

The AMD/Ati Radeon HD 5850 is supposed to become a little more expensive. [Source: view picture gallery]

It has already been rumored on the internet for quite some time, but now it has been confirmed that AMD will increase the price of the Radeon HD 5850. According to recent media reports, the Radeon HD 5850 is selling better than expected and thus the board partners of AMD would be charged an additional amount of 15 to 20 USD. When asking AMD about the alleged price increase for the Radeon HD 5850 PC Games Hardware received the following statement from AMD's Michael Schmid:

Due to the fast ramp of the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series at a time when the worldwide economy is showing a stronger than expected recovery, AMD has incurred higher component, memory and logistics costs. While many of our products are impacted by these increased costs to varying degrees, we are only adjusting pricing on the ATI Radeon HD 5850. We are confident that even with this price change, the ATI Radeon HD 5850 continues to offer outstanding performance for the enthusiast community. The ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics cards remain the only DirectX 11 products in the market today and the immersive ATI Eyefinity experience is only possible on ATI Radeon graphics.

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Author: Thomas Schleider (Nov 05, 2009)

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Re: Radeon HD 5850 is getting more expensive

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06.11.2009 11:48

Quote: (Originally Posted by lagathy)

well,the 5850 overclocks better than the 5870..and when the core is pushed to 1ghz,it well equal and sometimes surpass the 5870 in benchmarks..no wonder ati has increased the price :P
though of course,they could just reduce the 5870's price instead.

They are running out of supplies. They cant sell more 5870s (or 5850s) then they already are.
As long as TSMC doesnt fix things up and Nvidia doenst come up with GT300, AMD / ATI have full control over the market

lagathy	Re: Radeon HD 5850 is getting more expensive
Senior Member 06.11.2009 04:37	well,the 5850 overclocks better than the 5870..and when the core is pushed to 1ghz,it well equal and sometimes surpass the 5870 in benchmarks..no wonder ati has increased the price :P though of course,they could just reduce the 5870's price instead.
Senior Member 06.11.2009 04:37

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Re: Radeon HD 5850 is getting more expensive

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05.11.2009 23:52

Quote: (Originally Posted by Tunchy)

Good Joke. Must I remember what Nvidia said in PC Gaming Alliance about less products x serie?

How many G2 GPU are available? Do you think you can go and "talk" and then forget? People do not forget what they said and what they had done.

I am an Nvidia GPU user (in case you think this argument is used because I am a ATI fan). BUT as consumer, I do not "marry" companies: give each one what they deserves.

P.S: Yea, also do you remember what Nvidia said in this PC G.A. about releasing less expensive GPU? Or did you also forget it?

+1

ATI/AMD is, mostly, responsible for Nvidia's cut pricing.

We now need a good replay from Nvidia to make ATI cut prices.

greedy jews

What?

Please kindly fook off.

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