Nvidia drops prices for the GTX 280, GTX 260 and 9800 GTX.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 04:40:56 Sun, July 06, 2008

Sometime yesterday Nvidia officially gave me and lots of other early adopters the finger. 20 days after the launch of the GTX series they have lowered the GTX 280 by $149 and the GTX 260 series by $129. That's the price we pay for buying things at launch I guess. Since 30 days have not passed I still have the option of returning my card to Newegg for a full refund, then I could just buy the same card for $149 less. I won't do that though, I don't need the money that bad and (for me) its not worth the hassle.

[H]ard|OCP has the new prices that the AIB board partners pay to Nvidia and the new MSRP prices. Newegg is selling at the new prices but prices at the manufacturer sites (Evga, PNY) have not dropped yet. Here are the Neweggs links for each of these cheaper cards:

GeForce GTX 280s starting at $459 after rebate.
GeForce GTX 260s starting at $329.
GeForce 9800 GTX starting at $196.

10 Comments

Friday, July 04, 2008 2:20:10 PM

andrew2004gto
Member

prices have drop 299- 260 gtx and 499- 280 gtx

Sunday, July 06, 2008 6:00:31 PM

andrew2004gto
Member

its kinda weird newegg did that update though, they usually dont do that only for weekdays

Sunday, July 06, 2008 9:35:53 PM

MrWizard6600
Member

heres to hoping for a $250 MSRP HD4870. I think ATI is satisfied with current pricing, maybe we'll see it come down $20 or $30 for augest. Also by then hopefully price gouging is done.

Sunday, July 06, 2008 11:29:36 PM

Duesco
Member

What's wrong, nVidia? Nobody buying your $600 video cards?

How could anyone have seen this coming?!

(Somebody didn't get the economy memo, huh.)

Monday, July 07, 2008 1:59:49 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

Well once you have competition, prices drop. Its just great. You can't bash nVidia for having a high price when they could get that amount from people. Sure it sucks to pay that much, but it also costs nVidia mountains of cash to even develop a new architecture.

As a consumer though, I love the new price.

Monday, July 07, 2008 5:13:51 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

So ... they are actually selling cards for less than it costs to manufacture it ...

Monday, July 07, 2008 5:20:26 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

@Radiator
No. You are reading those figures backwards. Please try again.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:09:23 AM

WhistleHeat
n00b

It's looking tasty. I want a GTX 280. Oh well.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:13:53 PM

Casecutter
Member

Wow, How will this effect EVGA Step-Up program Let's see 30 day ago somebody bought a 260 for sa $450 can they trade up to the 280 for $9 bucks, forgetaboutit...

Friday, July 11, 2008 7:14:01 PM

ultima
Senior Member

i would send it back and get money returned

buy a new gx280 at new price

then you can put the extra money you get into getting a 4870, then you can do a comparison review :D

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