October 6th, 2005
ATI’s Newest Video Cards Too Pricey?
By John Tintle
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
The guys and gals over at Extreme Tech.com, have written up an article explaining ATI’s new series of video cards. The long await Radeon X1000 series has a card for every price range, from the entry level card, Radeon X1300, which is priced at $99 USD to the high end, Radeon X1800 XT, which is priced at $549 USD. ATI is not only touting the speed increase of its new series, but its promoting the Radeon X1000 series’ “efficiency”.
John’s 2 cents:
The real question I see is will the X1000 series be worth the money, according to the article and the benchmarks they have ran, it is. ATI tweaked my interest with the redesign of their video cards, will I go out and drop 500 dollars on their high end card when it ships in a month? Probably not, but in a month or two, when the price drops, I will take a long hard look at this card and compare it to the Nvidia 7800 series.
Source: Extreme Tech
TipsDr Blog says:
Radeon X1000 Series Reviews
The folks at Extremtech have posted a review of the new series of X1000 video cards from Radeon, their answer to the latest offerings from Nvidia, the GeForce 7800 GTX and the cheaper cousin the GeForce 7800 GT. Apparently they had some kind of circ…
October 6th, 2005 at 8:49 am
David Johnston says:
It really seems to me as if ATI dropped the ball after releasing the X800 series. They let nVidia get a huge headstart with SLI vs. Crossfire and Crossfire is still just a paper release. Nobody’s actually seen it in retail yet while SLI has been out for a long time. In the meantime, nVidia’s had the 7800GTX out for quite some time with performance that matches these ATI cards that are just now coming out.
October 6th, 2005 at 10:27 am
Another Mike says:
I’ll agreet that they “dropped the ball” witht he SLI thing. But seriously know of only one person, of all my gamer friends, who had SLI. and he had to go back to just one video card because it made his system run hot.
SLI = interesting but not practical enough for me right now. SLI was supposed to be an easy upgrade path, not an all for now way to get the best speeds possible. It supposed to be that you would get a second card a couple years down the road in order to get a significant increase in speed so that you didn’t have to get rid of your (now) old but expesive piece of hardware.
But the problem is that, especially with the video cards refresh period, that the speeds of the new generation of cards are sometimes twice the speed of their predecessors. And so I really don’t want to spend 1000 dollars on a new graphics subsytem. So I’ll just pick up the best price/perfomance card out today. It just so happens that I’m looking for a new card. Good thing I have choices now…
The 7800 series is awesome. and if I needed a card a month ago I would have picked one up in a split second. But now I have more choices and I’m happy that I get to make this painstakingly hard choice.
October 6th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
David Johnston says:
I’ll agree that SLI is pretty impractical for just about everyone. However, in the world of the very most bleeding edge performance which is what gains companys a reputation for being “the best”, nVidia is King right now. A lot of mid-range card sales are based on the image of the high-end lineup. That’s where ATI’s lagging and it’s hurting them.
October 6th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Another Mike says:
David, your comments are so true it’s not even funny. Ati is late in this round. nVidia has the mind set. People saw that top end from nVidia a month ago and buy because of it. They don’t realize that cards vary from price range to price range. the X800GT, GTO, and GTO2 are probably a far better bet in the 200$ and under category but are ignored because of the image factor.
October 6th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
Inglix the Mad says:
Don’t forget that trying to find a high end card from ATI ranks right up there with finding a needle in a haystack. The last round’s PE (Press Edition?, Phantom Edition?) were almost never there to be bought. ATI has to learn that nVidia ended their paper launches (this year anyway) with the 7800GTX. We had 4 of them in each of the high-end local stores on launch day. When the GT came out they had 3 of each in the local stores plus they were still getting GTX’s to sell.
Come on ATI, wake up!
October 7th, 2005 at 8:05 am
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
ATI’s Newest Video Cards Too Pricey?
The guys and gals over at Extreme Tech.com have written up an article explaining ATI’s new series of video cards. The long-awaited Radeon X1000 series has a card for every price range, from the entry level card, Radeon X1300, which is priced at $99 US…
October 7th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
Tinman57 says:
I’ve been a long time buyer of nVidia. Every time I upgraded to a new computer, it just so happened that nVidia had just released a new card that was the hottest thing on the planet. I haven’t upgraded in quite a while now, and my Graphics “Processor” I use now is a GeForce3 TI200. It may not be up to par with the new 78XX, but it’s still an awesome graphics system.
I’ve always had good luck with nVidia’s. The speed, the beautiful 3D graphics is priceless. Plus nVidia’s driver support has always been good to me.
October 9th, 2005 at 7:14 pm
Sam says:
Back in the year 2000 i bought my first comp : i took the 2nd best videocard on the market the TNT@2 Ultra , the first was the newly released geforce 256.
the geforce1 256 was 400$ can
the TNT2 ultra was 289$ can. hell it was fast, and have a huge $$ margin over the best one.
now to have the second best you still have to pay over 500$ can, so in 5 years the price of videocard more than double? = non-sense, yes they r more advanced than before, so what! intel and amd’s CPU r more advanced too and r still in the same price range than 5 years ago. plus they releasing too many type of vid card, each of all have a little thing different just to get us confused…
more gpu speed or more memory? the benchmark r the same what do i do?…. could they save production and marketing cost by simply doing the x1900xtx in VERY BIG MASS PRODUCTION, i bet it could drop their price by over 50% or more, because just im in the media and i know that just designing a box for a product and printing it is very $$$, so damn ATI and Nvidia! just make a plein brown box! and one fucking CARD : the best! at a 300$ price range! damn businesses and their will to take our $$ the easiest way possible…
February 4th, 2006 at 7:22 am