X-bit labs

Started by: gamebro | Date 12/18/07

Comments: 10 | Last Comment:  12/21/07

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1. R680..... There it is people.... The best GPU ATI will have for us for over 1 year!!!! They will not be releasing anything more powerful for a loooooong time.

If it performs like 2 3850's it won't even make me consider it, but if it can perform like 2 3870's it may just find some sales if the D9E (2x 8800GTS) from nvidia can't offer as good of a price to performance ratio.....

Of course both those cards won't even matter if the 9800GTX and GTS cards really do come out in mid February, as their price ranges (over 300) is too close to something far more powerful (or should be far more) IMO of course. If the 9800 GTS is under $400 and 2x the performance of the R680, it will be an easy choice for me and anyone else looking to buy a higher end card!

Gona be an interesting start to 2008!

I thought that the D9x series was the GeForce 9s.

Also, ATI is not coming out with a new ARCHITECTURE in Twenty-O-Eight. Respins, clock-bumps and derivatives do not fall under this category. In short: I am hoping for R690/HD 3900.

P.S.: I am the proud owner of a GF 7900GT and NF4 mobo. I only want a competitive marketplace.

you think the 9800GTs can even get close to doubling the performance of the R680?! that's like multiplying the performance of the current hd 3870 x 3.3 or something, which i think is something TOTALLY insane to even consider.

anyway, with all this power in hands, i can only think of 1 kind of ppl considering these types of cards, crysis players @ 1920x1200

for me, an HD 3850 or 8800GT 256MB "if it dropped its price a bit" will do the trick.

Nitwit.
And I tell you, because I can tell the future, that 98** is going to be a slight improvement over nvidia's current cards, and based on the same architecture too. Now given this simple fact, it will still stomp anything ATI puts forward because lately, they have been sucking a lot.

2. very interesting

3. Good move made by ATI they targeting midrange buyer that capable slightly lower high end performance...This will be very tempting to wait.....I will watch closely

4. ATI needs to do something about their main and lower end performance as the 2600 series was disappointing at best.

Hopefully, the HD 3400 and HD 3600 will solve that problem. Their specs are not clear but I hope they get a slight increase in shader number when compared to HD 2400 and HD 2600, that should boost their performance a bit.

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