X-bit labs

Started by: @DoUL | Date 01/29/08

Comments: 7 | Last Comment:  01/30/08

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1. I wish that nVIDIA follow the trend of ATI pricing with their upcomming 9800 GX2 and put their ego aside this time. It will be stupid to position this comming card at 500+ while two separated G92 cores would cost less than that with their recommended MSRP.
HD 3870 X2 beats 8800 GTX big time with much more lower price, nVIDIA could sell gold if they followed the same road of lower prices but I'm dead sure that big green will follow their own road of arrogance and 9800 GX2 will be priced at current 8800 GTX prices or even higher, maybe Ultra price.
Why would you sell 50 when you could have sold 500 with no damage on your side at all ??!!
nVIDIA fan here wishes the best for the whole industry.

You are wrong nvidia should keep high price to show the superiority of nvidia card

"You are wrong nvidia should keep high price to show the superiority of nvidia card "

So just becaus seomthing its good you sugest the ask more money for it.
Most ppl want to get stuff cheaper, not you it seems.

Good, but:
The X2 3870 also costs about the same of two 3870.

The X2 and GX2 is to be able to use SLI/Crossfire on non SLI/Crossfire motherboards, so the previous point goes away.

Ati did a mistake not marketing it as 3970 instead of 3870 X2, because:
-3870 X2 is actually clocked 50Mhz higher over the 3870 775 vs 825.
-3870 X2 is using DDR3 memory like the 3850 not DDR4 like the 3870.

So the 3870 X2 name come up from?

"-3870 X2 is actually clocked 50Mhz higher over the 3870 775 vs 825.
-3870 X2 is using DDR3 memory like the 3850 not DDR4 like the 3870."

So half of the specs (chip clocks) could result in 3890 X2, the other half (GDDR3) in 3850 X2.

Just do some simple maths:

(3890 X2 + 3850 X2) / 2 = 3870 X2 ^^

;-)

The first digit in the model number marks the generation of the card, while the second declares what chip from that generation is being used, so 3850, 3870 and 3870 X2 all start with 38. And since technically and performance wise X2 is fairly equivalent to 3870 crossfire, 3870 X2 makes perfect sense.

"-3870 X2 is using DDR3 memory like the 3850 not DDR4 like the 3870."

not in a few weeks :-)
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5447&Itemid=1

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