Posted on Thursday, July 15 2010 @ 18:19 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
notes the launch of the GeForce GTX 460 has also resulted in lower prices for all the other Fermi cards. The GeForce GTX 480 has slipped under 400EUR, and the GeForce GTX 465 and 470 have also become somewhat more affordable.
Mind you, the price cut does not appear to affect the entire GF100 range, but the GTX 480 is now available at as low as €394 in continental Europe. Most retailers still carry it at €449 or more, but some Austrian and German companies have already cut their prices to under €399. However, there is a catch. Two reference GTX 460 768MB cards in SLI are some 15 percent faster than a single GTX 480, but at the same time they are around 15 percent cheaper than a GTX 480.
The GTX 465 is bound to see a lot of in-house competition from the GTX 460 1GB, so it has already shed part of its value in recent weeks. Although it retailed around the €270 mark a month ago, prices dropped to around €250 some two weeks ago and as of today the lowest list price stands at €219, about the same as a 1GB GTX 460 card. The GTX 470 saw the smallest price drop, but we’re not huge fans of it to begin with. It’s currently available at €282.
