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new ATI cards!!!!

At an affordable price? Must be low-mid card. The high end cards are still selling here at about 30% increase in price over the US. Its almost £=$ right now. Total joke.
 
mathwat said:
+1

I'm just waiting till nvidia's new card's comes out, then see what happens to the prices before buying a ati card;).

mathwat
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As long as stupid uk buyers keep paying over the odds, retail stores will keep charging over the odds. Theres zero reason for the cards not to be £200 for a 5850 right now except retailers knew they could get more out of impatient buyers. Its harder in the states as there are far more stores, and less "must buy now" mentality.

Considering Fermi supply will be beyond terrible and more expensive with more people choosing to go with better priced AMD cards, I can't see fermi doing much for forcing proper pricing here.


The launch this month should be the 55XX cards, with the 53XX types next month, though they might launch them together, both cards were aimed to be out and available in Jan/Feb. Not too exciting, except that it does make Nvidia's GT210/220 and the renamed to 310/320 parts entirely obsolete within a month or two of release. AFAIK the AMD parts should be significantly smaller for the same performance, cheaper, dx11, lower power consumption, lower idle consumption with a better feature set.


Did anyone else see that Nvidia have now launched, quietly, a GT360GS mobile gpu, which is a GT210 or 220, then a GT310/320 in desktop and for the laptop version they've bumped it all the way to a GT360, which by naming alone would indicate it was the equivilent of a cut down 260gtx part, but the next gen. I can understand them moving the naming, I don't even care that much(though why they didn't always call them GT310/320 I don't know, but how they can give it what seems a far higher card number, for a slower clocked part is insane.


I'm looking forward to the cheapest part to replace a gpu in my parents rig thats failing, and it might be nice if they get some mobile low end parts out soon as we need a new laptop. Anyone remember how long AMD usually take between desktop and mobile parts?
 
drunkenmaster said:
Did anyone else see that Nvidia have now launched, quietly, a GT360GS mobile gpu, which is a GT210 or 220, then a GT310/320 in desktop and for the laptop version they've bumped it all the way to a GT360, which by naming alone would indicate it was the equivilent of a cut down 260gtx part, but the next gen. I can understand them moving the naming, I don't even care that much(though why they didn't always call them GT310/320 I don't know, but how they can give it what seems a far higher card number, for a slower clocked part is insane.
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Thats why i jumped ship, i did have a 8800gt then it was all this renaming carry on. Like the 9800gt was pritty much the same as the 8800gt but more £££, then the 8800gtx i could go on for ages.

mathwat
 
drunkenmaster said:
The launch this month should be the 55XX cards, with the 53XX types next month, though they might launch them together, both cards were aimed to be out and available in Jan/Feb.
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I thought it was the 5350 that was coming in January.
I've been waiting for this model as I want this card (passive hopefully) for my pc as it will make a perfect htpc type gpu :D
 
regardless of what I think about ATI cards -

This can only be a good thing.

I think even the nvidia fans will realise that ATI are currently driving the market at the moment. That can easily change and I hope competition continues in a strong fashion because that is good for the consumers but at the moment FERMI is another Geforce 5 series and we all know what those were like.

I suspect nvidia will not get caught out again and the FERMI refresh will knock our socks off but it is never a sure bet.

So big well done to ATI for keeping the head of steam up and pushing the market forward.

All good for their bottom line. They are about to have a directx 11 GPU in every segment. Quite a feat and nothing, not even noise from nvidia!

Not to mention Eyeinfinity tech which while perhaps a gimic at the moment is pretty amazing stuff.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I'm looking forward to the cheapest part to replace a gpu in my parents rig thats failing, and it might be nice if they get some mobile low end parts out soon as we need a new laptop. Anyone remember how long AMD usually take between desktop and mobile parts?
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ATI have five series mobile parts due out early next year. A review of a 5650 mobile machine is already out there (IIRC dissapointing 3dmark scores as the older 4650, but realworld gaming performance closer to the 4850/GTX260m).
 
Yeah they got 12 cards coming Jan/Feb (5500/5600 series), so it may be those, but then again, the 5890 was due in Jan as well, as Nvidia were going to release Fermi then (and the 5890's ATi's answer to it, but they've now pushed it back March), so dunno, just seems odd that they'd make a fuss over the low end cards (if thats indeed what this Video is about), as pretty pointless that, i like the digs at Nvidia though in it. :D
 
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