Geforce 7800GTX 512 MB to cost $649

NVIDIA'S flagship Geforce 7800 GTX card with 512 MB is expected next Monday the 14th of November,and we have some pricing details about how many greenbacks this card will cost.

Nvidia has priced this card at high as $649. A new card working at 550MHz core and 1700+ for the memory will certainly be a faster option than X1800XT 512 MB card but will cost you exactly $100 more than the $549, the suggested retail price of the Radeon X1800XT.

We just don't see the end of this, as we think that $549 is already an insane amount of money to spend for a graphic card. What happened to $399 as a top barrier? Are we so blinded with marchitecture that we didn't figure out that Nvidia and ATI are ratcheting the prices up every single generation? [I dunno Fudo. You tell us. Ed.]

I can remember the times when top end Nvidia Riva TNT card use to cost 400 Deutsche Marks, equivalent of €200 or around $240 now, but now you can just get an average mainstream card for the same money.

If you would need to buy two of these cards for SLI that would toast you to the tune of $1,300. You can get a notebook with a decent graphic card inside or you can get a full gaming PC for that kind of money equipped with mainstream graphic card. Heck, you can probably buy a print computer magazine for that kind of money.

So 7800GTX 512 MB is going to be the fastest card around, probably easily beating Radeon X1800XT 512 MB card but it can't really be worth $649. Can it? Tell me what you think at Fudo@TheInquirer.net. µ