Coming price drop for Nvidia 9800 series GPU?

Assuming the benchmarks posted in this video from the soon to be available Arima W840 DI are reliable:

http://www.mycizmo.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=72&products_id=197

One would think that Nvidia would have to lower the prices of their 9800 series GPUs to be competitive with the ATI HD 3870 crossfire offering. If these scores are true they handily beat Nvidia's 9800 series (that may be defective as well). Anyone care to speculate?

 

I was fun and supportive to the work of nvidia for years, but with all the progress made by ATI under AMD, and all the reliability issues that nvidia has at the moment, the balance has changed.

Now it's ATI all the way

 

It reminds me sth between AW m9750 and D901C,no idea what is it but is handsome for its size..

 

The 14k 3dMark score has a lot to with the X9100. If you pair SLI'd 9800s with an X9100 or a Quad-Core, they'll post benchmarks equal to the 3870s. That said, the Crossfire setup is ~half the price of the SLI for equal performance, so Nvidia should definitely look at dropping the prices by at least $150.

The 9800MGTS and the GTX are wastes of time imo, because they're too close together in terms of performance to the GT. I think Nvidia should drop both cards, then work on something that is truly more high-end than the GT. Just let the 9700GTS cover the low high-end, the 9800GT keeps it's place at a lower price, then introduce a new, more powerful card.

GTX in SLI is 1k! What a joke, when a single card barely outperforms a GT.

 

I think 9800m gts should be called low high-end, considering it has only 64 sps, which is comparable to 9600 gt desktop.

 

I think the hole point to justify lower prices from Nvidia is the performance of the cards in games regardless of the 3dmarks,so the question actually is, does 3870 in crossfire performs as well as 9800GT SLI to justify price drop?

 

I haven't seen any real tests yet, but is the GTS really within 5% of the GT's performance? If it is, it's what I'd consider redundant for their business.

 

well I dont think thr ability to be able to max almost every game out now with good framerates, should be considered a low end card. My 8800m GTS is the sameas the 9800m GTS, minus the slight OCes, which I could do myself and call it a 9800m GTS.

 

We're sill talking high-end, meaning cards with 256-bit memory and 512mb of RAM. None of them are anything to sneeze at, it's just that the 9700GTS and 8800GTS round out the NV cards that fit into that category. Thus "low" high-end.

 

Wow, I want this notebook!