Gainward move to ATi

[icey_haj]

Palit-owned Gainward has decided that monogamy isn't all that great and a little ménage à trois would be a lot nicer and more profitable. As a result, the company has now announced that it will be adding a couple of RV770 cards to its product line-up. Leaving Nvidia exclusivity to rot in the desert, Gainward revealed its own Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 cards, both of which you can see below.

All red and lovely, the cards are based on AMD/ATI's reference design and thus feature stock cooling system and clocks. The Radeon HD 4850 has 512MB of GDDR3 memory set to 1986 MHz, 800 Stream Processors and a GPU clocked at 625 MHz while the HD 4870 can say it's equipped with 3600 MHz-clocked 512MB of GDDR5 memory and a GPU with a frequency of 750 MHz.

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=20575&catid=2

Good stuff

 

[EdGey]

 

[icey_haj]

Looks like bad news for nvidia fanboys...

 

[Bane]

About time. I remember reading about them switching sides over a year ago. At least they have the red PCB to match

 

[Tombo]

Looks like bad news for nvidia fanboys...

Why does it? They still get everything they would have done even if they had stayed exclusive.

 

[Azza]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17890338

 

[icey_haj]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17890338

My bad azza, didn't see it. Although, mine's slightly better as it has pictures

 

[willhub]

What does that mean for my Gainward 8800GT? , even further price drop?

 

[helmutcheese]

Why not tell it like it is and say they now make both ATI and Nvidia, bit misleading aint it ?.

Many Vendors have done this in the PAST, Asus make both or did.

 

[londonbairn]

Why not tell it like it is and say they now make both ATI and Nvidia, bit misleading aint it ?.

Many Vendors have done this in the PAST, Asus make both or did.

Maybe because this highlights the shift in sales?

 

[helmutcheese]

Well at least do not word is so its totally false and misleading, they be dumb not to make Both and get all sales they can.

 

[Azza]

Why not tell it like it is and say they now make both ATI and Nvidia, bit misleading aint it ?.

Many Vendors have done this in the PAST, Asus make both or did.

Huh?


In what way is the article misleading?

 

[Darkwave]

Another egg in ATI's basket. This could well be their best year in a long, long time.

 

[helmutcheese]

Huh?


In what way is the article misleading?

"Gainward move to ATi "

The actual news topic says :

"Gainward drops Nvidia exclusivity and preps Radeon HD 4800 cards"

Now I read it hours ago and that more straight forward to understand they now make Both.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Another egg in ATI's basket. This could well be their best year in a long, long time.

Heres hoping, gald ATi's finally competing again, and hopefully now it will get back to being interesting again as well, as the past 17 months (or however long its been) has bored the absolute crap outa me.

 

[Azza]

"Gainward move to ATi "

The actual news topic says :

"Gainward drops Nvidia exclusivity and preps Radeon HD 4800 cards"

Now I read it hours ago and that more straight forward to understand they now make Both.

Thought you where on about the article, not the title of the thread.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Title needs to be changed.

They have not moved to ati, they have just dropped the exclusivity of nvidia cards and now do both.

That's poor yield rates for you. Lesson learned eh, nvidia?

 

[helmutcheese]

Thought you where on about the article, not the title of the thread.

Heh

 

[helmutcheese]

Title needs to be changed.

They have not moved to ati, they have just dropped the exclusivity of nvidia cards and now do both.

That's poor yield rates for you. Lesson learned eh, nvidia?

 

[Strife212]

Its great to see some real competition in the graphics card market at last!

The problem with AMD and ATI being a single company is that the CPU buisness is taking a kicking, there is actually no reason to buy an AMD CPU for a desktop machine right now.