AMD leaders openly acknowledged at the last quarterly conference that the situation with the scarcity of video card radeon HD 5xxx does not allow to design improvement in their accessibility in the current block. In the case with the scarcity Of radeon HD 4770 this spring AMD was forced to increase the prices for a while after the announcement.
As asserts associate, the situation with the accessibility of video card series radeon HD 58xx forces AMD to raise the prices of these video cards by $15-20, For example, Radeon HD 5850 will be proposed for $299, and Radeon HD 5870 - for $399. Let us note that now NewEgg proposes the standard versions radeon HD 5870 for $389. Accordingly, soon these proposals can be at $400-410.
The growing prices of memory and Christmas can also raise the prices of video card series radeon HD 57xx. From other sides, soon will appear alternative video card radeon HD 5xxx, whose cost can be $10-50 higher due to the advanced cooling systems.