Midrange ATI DX10 cards?

[CCityInstaller]

Does anyone know when ATI plans to release their midrange DX10 cards? Something that has the power of a X1900Pro or XT?

 

[tuteja1986]

well lets hope ... review should be up next month for ati midrange series.

 

[mruffin75]

Not sure about the power of a X1900Pro...but I believe that ATI is shipping chips to at least Sapphire right now... so cards based on the 2400/2600 should be available in a month or so..

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: CCityInstaller
Does anyone know when ATI plans to release their midrange DX10 cards? Something that has the power of a X1900Pro or XT?

Given the performance of HD 2900XT with 320 shaders, 512-bit memory interface, expecting HD 2600 with 120 shaders and 128-bit memory interface and something like 4 texture units to outpeform X1950Pro/7950GT or X1950XT is wishful thinking.

I do not even going to mention the disaster that 8600GT/S series is or the fact that there is not 1 single game out there right now which benefits from DX10. Even if there were 5 games it's still not worth it to buy a card for DX10 alone unless each of those 5 games is A titles.

 

[yacoub]

srsly, needs more 512MB 256-bit 256 shader 128 stream proc card for $299 to compete with the 640MB GTS that's already down to $295 with rebates right now and hopefully will hit $310-320 without any rebates soon.

 

[soybeast]

Anybody hear that? It's the sound of a huge vacuum in the sub-250 range. yay for lack of competition (or presence of collusion? hm)

 

[BernardP]

Originally posted by: CCityInstaller
Does anyone know when ATI plans to release their midrange DX10 cards? Something that has the power of a X1900Pro or XT?

See them in June, buy them in July

 

[gobucks]

Originally posted by: soybeast
Anybody hear that? It's the sound of a huge vacuum in the sub-250 range. yay for lack of competition (or presence of collusion? hm)

I agree. what's up with that? You would think that, when nvidia looked at the amazing sales of their 6600GT a few years ago, they would think "hey, maybe people really want a card with half the performance of our best card for half the price! and if we design cards that way, rather than selling crippled versions of our high end cards, we can actually turn a huge profit on them!" but instead, they completely overhaul high-end cards each generation, but the mid-range cards just get clock-speed bumps to their core and memory, and possibly some new features that the card isn't really powerful enough to use anyways.

To be honest, I wouldn't bother upgrading yet. Even if you could find a card to match your X1950 pro, you wouldn't see any big differences, since the first generation DX10 games are mainly just trying to use it to improve performance, and so far they are failing miserably (see Lost Planet). By the time there are games that really need DX10 to look their best, there should be some nice refreshed parts from ATI and nvidia that will have all the kinks worked out (working HD acceleration, HDMI, etc)