NVIDIA partners have dropped the prices of the current flagship GeForce GTX580 by 10-15 percents to make the card a bit competitive against the HD7900 Series cards. The price cut also comes a few weeks earlier before NVIDIA launches its next generation 28nm Kepler graphic cards.
From the price listings, We see the 1.5Gb Reference models now sell for€339 (Previously€379), Overclocked models such asZotac’s overclocked AMP! Edition which features a factory overclock of 815Mhz has also dropped down to€369 from€440 - Other partners such asEVGA, Zotac, etc have dropped prices on the 1.5GB variants too.
The 3GB Point of View TGT GTX580 clocked at 793Mhz has also undergone a fair price cut of€399, down from €459. The 3GB variants are now at a competitivepositionprice wise against the HD7950 until the Kepler GPU's arrive.