What will be the R520 called?

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: jasonja
As others have stated... nVidia was just as guilty with the 6800 Ultra. The Ultra's were the ones all the reviewers had and was the one all numbers were released with at launch time. Nobody could find a 6800 Ultra and nobody could find a X800 Platinum, both companies did the same thing because yields on these high end board were low.

For about the first month - then the ultras were everywhere and the platinums were still MIA, and they stayed that way until damn near the end of the year.

I'm sorry, but anyone paying attention last generation saw it as obvious that ATi was having greater supply problems than Nvidia. I hope that's not the case with their new, twice as many transistors, hellishly complex, die shrunk wunderchip.

But we shall see.

 

[jasonja]

Originally posted by: Insomniak

Originally posted by: jasonja
As others have stated... nVidia was just as guilty with the 6800 Ultra. The Ultra's were the ones all the reviewers had and was the one all numbers were released with at launch time. Nobody could find a 6800 Ultra and nobody could find a X800 Platinum, both companies did the same thing because yields on these high end board were low.

For about the first month - then the ultras were everywhere and the platinums were still MIA, and they stayed that way until damn near the end of the year.

I'm sorry, but anyone paying attention last generation saw it as obvious that ATi was having greater supply problems than Nvidia. I hope that's not the case with their new, twice as many transistors, hellishly complex, die shrunk wunderchip.

But we shall see.

If you were paying attention you'd know that Dell was getting all of the X800 cards and they had priority over the retail channel. nVidia had almost no OEM deals back then.

 

[Ackmed]

Originally posted by: zendari
Sad though that even now you cant find x800 XT cards in stock cheap; while the 6800 GT can be found for $300 or so.

You can find them in stock cheap, if you bothered to look. In fact, the X800XT AIW just over $300 last month at newegg. Right now it is $323 for a retail box card. Over $120 under MSRP. Why should they be priced as low as a GT? They are not the same MSRP. Who says you cant find them cheap? Id much rather have a X800XT AIW, 6800GT. Especially since its just $20 more, since you say the GT is $300.

Yes the X800XT/PE was way to hard to get even close to MSRP. It was pretty pathetic. But that is just one card. The X800 pro was widely avail. So was the X850 series, and XL. NV had their fair share of avail problems, especially with PCI-E cards. 6800GT/U's were prices well over MSRP, for several months. It wasnt until the XL came out, that they dropped.

Anyone who implies that only ATi has avail problems, and "paper launched" is wrong.

edit, lower price

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: Ackmed

Originally posted by: zendari
Sad though that even now you cant find x800 XT cards in stock cheap; while the 6800 GT can be found for $300 or so.

You can find them in stock cheap, if you bothered to look. In fact, the X800XT AIW just over $300 last month at newegg. Right now it is $323 for a retail box card. Over $120 under MSRP. Why should they be priced as low as a GT? They are not the same MSRP. Who says you cant find them cheap? Id much rather have a X800XT AIW, 6800GT. Especially since its just $20 more, since you say the GT is $300.

Yes the X800XT/PE was way to hard to get even close to MSRP. It was pretty pathetic. But that is just one card. The X800 pro was widely avail. So was the X850 series, and XL. NV had their fair share of avail problems, especially with PCI-E cards. 6800GT/U's were prices well over MSRP, for several months. It wasnt until the XL came out, that they dropped.

Anyone who implies that only ATi has avail problems, and "paper launched" is wrong.

edit, lower price

It still does. PCI-E 6800GTs cost so much more than their AGP counter part.

 

[imported_Ged]

Originally posted by: kurt454
It will be called a "Radeon".

Brilliant!!!!!!

It will be red.

Genius!!!!!

 

[FlasHBurN]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
it wont be 32 pipes

/2

 

[Acanthus]

On top of that, i dont think any company is sampling GDDR3 @ 1.8ghz yet (1.6 is the highest i know of, and its rediculously expensive)

 

[larry89]

It will be called Fudo.

 

[PrayForDeath]

Lol, in two years we'll see GeForce 9800 and Radeon TNT2