http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=703&Itemid=34

ATI officially confirmed

ATI said in front of 150+ journalists that R600XT won't be able to compete with Geforce 8800 GTX. The dream is dead and Radeon HD 2900 XT won't be able to catch up with a six month old Geforce 8800 GTX.

ATI said that R600XT, Radeon HD 2900XT is about the performance of 8800 GTS. Radeon HD 2900 XTX won't be launched at mid may and will be delayed to Q3 2007. We already wrote about this here.

The dream that AMD can do something and return as the high end market leader s gone. R600 rails against G80. Congratulations on Nvidia.

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Bugger.

AMD's aquisition of ATI is turning out to be the worst decision both companies have made in a bloody long time.

At this disappointing rate it looks like I will be keeping my 8800GTS until 65nm GPUs start to show up, or at the very least until Crysis comes out and Vista actually get some support.

I'd still wait till there actually out till i reserve my opinion if there going to beat nvidia or not.

I think we all knew this would happen.

OMG is this not the biggest farce in graphics card history? I mean okay the Voodoo 5500's were doomed to fail as everyone started using T&L at the time but this is shocking!
ATi were well on track I would have assumed, AMD trounce in and completely screw things up! JUst because they were second best in CPU's didnt mean they had to do the same with GPU's

It's actually really sad if this IS the truth! But from what Gibbo hinted at the card competes well with the GTX

if the price is right who cares. Its pretty well known that the 8800s are absolute STONKERS, Nvidia got 1up big time here. ATI will learn though, assuming this is all true. There'll be some questions to be answered and they'll sort themselves out i recon.

Well this now completely depends on pricing. If the R600XT is cheap enough, it'll certainly be chosen by people to out-perform the 8800GTS, but for a lesser cost (and performance) than the 8800GTX.

The 8800GTX's price is actually its worse point imo - it's like what, £350? For a 6 month old card? Sure, it's the best there is, but when you can get a 320MB 8800GTS for £170, who would consider it?!

-RaZ

Oh dear, GTS to stay, what a shambles.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

ROFLOL!

So i guess the whole thing of GTX performance for GTS price has backfired on them

Very, very damaging that id say for em, 6 month old tech now the 8 series, so they are effectively saying we can not compete anymore with Nvidia.

Congrats. to Nvidia.

Game Over? lol

Nvidia must be absolutely ******* em selves, i bet there having a massive party.

Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and get a GTX
But as long as Nvidia can't sort out their drivers I ain't buying anything from them
But i'm officially ****** at AMD, they told us that the XTX would launch along with the XT, now it isn't AND the XT can't even compete with anything

Various Fud/DT/Inq benchies which don't add up...

OR

Gibbo's own opinion

- I know which one i'd believe.

MoNkeE said:

Well this now completely depends on pricing. If the R600XT is cheap enough, it'll certainly be chosen by people to out-perform the 8800GTS, but for a lesser cost (and performance) than the 8800GTX.

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Aye, good point. I guess image quality and drivers would also be a factor as well.

I feel sorry for all the ATI lovers who have waited 4-5 months to get thier beloved R600's. They should have just bought the NVidia when they were worth their money!

This will mean the 8900's will be delayed

Well come on Nvidia, absolutely golden chance this now for yer, get your driver support sorted, only thing letting you down, gota capitalise on this.

if they do it certainly will be game over