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July Video Card Price GuideBy SharkyExtreme.com Staff July 31, 2008Welcome to the Sharky Extreme Video Card Price Guide, which compliments our CPU and Memory guides by presenting a snap-shot of the overall market. This follows the same basic pattern as our CPU price guide, starting off with individual lists for both NVIDIA and AMD, then separating them into the various entry-level, mainstream and high-end market segments, and finishing up with a sorted price list combining all the cards. The video card price lists are not meant to duplicate the vendor selection of an online price engine like PriceWatch or PriceGrabber, but instead looks to present a monthly view of the overall video card marketplace. The video cards and manufacturers in the price lists are selected due to video chip and brand popularity, market visibility, and overall positioning. In some cases, we only show the OEM price for less popular models, while including multiple retail cards at the hotter ends of the market. * Please note that unless otherwise stated (using an OEM designation) the listed video cards are full retail boxed editions, and unless expressly listed as PCIe or AGP, are assumed to be the default format. The AMD-ATI market starts with the Radeon 9X00-based video cards, ranging from the entry-level Radeon X300/HD 2400 to the mainstream Radeon X1650 XT/HD 2600 XT, and extending all the way to the top-of-the-line HD 2900 and 3800-series cards. The following list is sorted by product line to give a full view of the various AMD-based options, and exactly which models include special All-in-Wonder editions and larger memory capacities. The Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 3800 and 2900-based cards featured in the list are the models that are readily available online, and we continue to drop last-generation cards that are extremely difficult to find. As ATI has effectively halted production on their popular All-in-Wonder brand, we have started listing prices for the TV Wonder 550, 600 and 650 HD cards. The ATI video card chart showed quite a few price drops, especially on the double-digit side, where eleven ATI-based cards hit that level. The largest was a $75 price cut to the specialized dual-GPU ASUS EAH3850X2 1GB card, but it was followed closely by a $69 drop on the Radeon HD 3870 X2 1GB card. Other significant price decreases included the Radeon HD 3850 1GB (-$33) and Radeon HD 4870 512MB (-$33) cards, and the overall ATI chart was very active. Two cards did receive double-digit price increases, but the largest was only $13, and the chart trends showed an aggregate drop of $370 for the month, which is huge improvement compared to June.
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