Why is 9800GTX+ more expensive

I dont get it, they went for a 55nm process and it means it is probably cheaper to build, all they did was increase the clocks and all of sudden 225$, am I missing something here did they add shaders or something to warrant the price increase??

I dont get it, they went for a 55nm process and it means it is probably cheaper to build, all they did was increase the clocks and all of sudden 225$, am I missing something here did they add shaders or something to warrant the price increase??

deniiiii21

They added a "+" to the name. Isn't that good enough for you? Geeeez. ;)

It's a bit better performing (on average, less than 5%)Larrymon2000

Anandtech doesn't agree with you.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/731/1/

Legitreviews doesn't agree with you.

1) Those were pre-8.7 Catalyst

2) Anandtech isn't the de facto review source for hardware.

3) 5-10% doesn't warrant a 40 dollar premium, and those numbers are also based on pre-8.7.

5-10% doesn't warrant a 40 dollar premium, and those numbers are also based on pre-8.7.

Larrymon2000

Did I say it warrants a 40$ premium ?

You didn't even look at the Anandtech benchmarks before posting your reply. They used 8.7 beta so it's closer to 8.7 WHQL than Legit's 8.6. I don't see the 9800gtx+ being 5% faster like you said.

Because it faster than 9800GTX... I think that just nVIDIA tactic to SAVE 9800GTX series from HD4850 superiority... That's why they name it 9800GTX+ instead of 9900GTX or something like that...