ATI Radeon X1800, X1600, X1300 pricing

[Zenoth]

I own a 7800 GTX, but if those prices are right, then I am very pleased.

I'm very far from being a "fanboy".

If something ever happens to my nVidia GPU, I will surely go with ATi's new solutions. But only if my 7800 GTX has problems or if I need to send it back to Leadtek for some reasons. I might then consider going back with ATi (I had a 9800 Pro before going with a 7800 GTX, and I had one of those famous Ti 4200's before the 9800 Pro).

Good pricing indeed.

 

[SketchMaster]

This whole NDA crap is driving me nuts! It's less then SIX DAYS ATI! Just let us see the damn cards! How much more can you do to the cards in six days!?

...I feel better.



IF the card kicks but and thoes prices don't get monkeyed around with too much, I should have a x1800 XL in my case by the 10th. 🙂

Maybe a XT if I have the money.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Sounds good, actually...

I plan on keeping my 6800GT for a while yet, but if the X1800XT 512 is really available for that price or lower, I may very well choose that over the GTX when the time comes. Main things I'm looking for: competitive 3D performance (which hopefully it will be; remains to be seen obviously), 512MB of memory would definitely be nice if you're paying that much for a card, and ATI's Avivo features would be really useful for HDTV transcoding/encoding (assuming it turns out to be more than the vaporware that Nvidia's "PVP" ended up being). 🙂

 

[monster64]

Wow I really wanna see that 512 MB XT running CoD 2.

 

[amheck]

Doesn't there seem to be an obvious gap in the $300-$350 range?

 

[Josh7289]

Originally posted by: amheck
Doesn't there seem to be an obvious gap in the $300-$350 range?

I noticed that, too, but maybe ATI is anticipating price drops for some of the pricey-er cards to drop down into that range. That's my guess.

 

[M0RPH]

Originally posted by: amheck
Doesn't there seem to be an obvious gap in the $300-$350 range?

For some reason the X1800 Pro is missing from that price list. In Anand's article and all other articles that showed the new ATI lineup, there was a Pro card underneath the X1800 XL. Whether it's been cancelled or someone goofed and lef it off that pricing list, who knows.

 

[crazydingo]

Originally posted by: M0RPH

Originally posted by: amheck
Doesn't there seem to be an obvious gap in the $300-$350 range?

For some reason the X1800 Pro is missing from that price list. In Anand's article and all other articles that showed the new ATI lineup, there was a Pro card underneath the X1800 XL. Whether it's been cancelled or someone goofed and lef it off that pricing list, who knows.

They probably dropped that SKU as it was never popular.

 

[lifeguard1999]

Yeah, there is a gap there between the X1800 XL 256MB for $449 and the X1600 XT 256MB for $249. ATI needs to add a few more models to fill in the gap and to really confuse the consumer with more than 11 models. 🙂