ATI catches up and says %$#^ Nvidia

[OneManArmy]

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6142842/index.html

winnar ATI

...but ATI decided to throw in even more of the good stuff. Whereas the X1800 has 16 pixel pipelines, or pixel shader processors as ATI refers to them, the X1900 XTX comes with an astounding (and baffling) 48 pixel shader processors. It also has a core that's clocked at 650MHz and 512MB of GDDR3 RAM clocked at 1.55GHz. All these numbers boil down to a card that's very fast, in specific ways...

but fuck me, 650 bucks just for a card? holy shit no thank you.

[Marsman]

Well NVidia's 7800 top of the line card runs about $700 plus so that's about in line with that with ATI's being a little cheaper. Goes to show that if you want the absolute top of the line, it's going to cost ya.

btw, good article over at Tom's Hardware on the new ATI
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/...xel_pipelines/

[Rbstr]

650 is the sugested, so it will be atleast 700 at launch, I forsee $850.

New cards like this have horrible yeilds and are very hard to come by near launch and even a monthish afterward.

[Electrofreak]

Yay! Go ATI! I never lost faith in 'em

[MattxMosh]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

650 is the sugested, so it will be atleast 700 at launch, I forsee $850.

New cards like this have horrible yeilds and are very hard to come by near launch and even a monthish afterward.

Couldn't be more wrong, I just ordered my X1900XTX for $649.

ATI has had this card ready for launch to make up for the disasterous release of the R520

[Hamma]

It angers me that vid cards can almost be half the cost of an entire system nowaday.

[OneManArmy]

my entire system cost me 900 bucks roughly, no way would i spend just half of that on a video card. I'd buy 2 game consoles instead lol


of course I'd use that 649 bucks to put a down payment on a new car or something lol or car parts.. so i cant really say anything...

[Rbstr]

I'm supprised that they acctualy waited untill they could sell people cards before releasing them. Goog going ATi.

[Mag-Mower]

My ATi card borked planetside, and Everquest 2... me no like ATi

[OneManArmy]

I'd blame that on sonys shitty coding but, who knows....

[Mag-Mower]

PS/EQ never crashed on my intel graphics card...

[Electrofreak]

Never had a problem with any of my ATI cards in PS. I think YOU borked PS. Noob.

[Mag-Mower]

I was just running to heal a max and got a VPU error...