{"id":8201,"date":"2010-10-26T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"amd-radeon-hd-6800-price-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/8201-amd-radeon-hd-6800-price-roundup","title":{"rendered":"AMD Radeon HD 6800 price roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMD has officially announced<\/a> its next generation of graphics cards, and as you read this, shipments of the cards are heading towards South Africa. <\/p>\n

It will take another week or two for the cards to start turning up at retail. A local AMD representative told us to expect them in the first week of November, although a Prophecy representative gave us different information, indicating that we should expect the cards to start shipping around November 9. <\/p>\n

As always, pricing and availability will depend on the manufacturers and local distributors. A few local retailers already have the cards listed, namely: Prophecy.co.za, LandmarkPC.co.za, and Rampage-Gaming.co.za, although they do not have stock just yet. <\/p>\n

It is important to note, that despite the naming scheme, these are not AMD’s next generation of high performers. The HD 6850 and HD 6870 are essentially mid-range cards, with an emphasis on bringing HD 5800 series performance in at a more affordable price point. The HD 6900 series will be the cards to watch for the performance junkies, and will be announced before the end of the year. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, we have gathered local pricing details for those looking to upgrade now. <\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nHD 6850<\/td>\nHD 6870<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prophecy.co.za<\/td>\nSapphire: R2078 (OEM) , R2208 (Retail)
Asus: R2306 <\/td>\n		Sapphire: R2857
Asus: R2891 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rampage-Gaming.co.za<\/td>\nSapphire: R1899<\/td>\nSapphire: R2599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Landmarkpc.co.za<\/td>\nClub 3D:: R2228<\/td>\nClub 3D: R2555<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Rampage-Gaming currently has the best deal on the HD 6850, while Landmark’s Club 3D HD 6870 offers excellent value.<\/p>\n

Discuss South African AMD Radeon HD 6800 pricing<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We compare early pricing on incoming HD 6850 and HD 6870<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}