Originally posted by: Soccerman06
The 7800GTX has not been around for 6 months. Why do people keep saying it has, when it was released to the market on June 22 (or atleast reviewed by AT). I would hope after 3 months of driver updates, the X1800XT could do a better.
Would I be wrong to say that the 7800GTX released at the same price (msrp)? hhhhm lets thing about that, it took basically 2 months to drop the average price around $500, ATI should lower the price of the cards about the same in 1 month if they want to make any money this round.
Wow, this tech is garbage, I thought that extra 256mb of VRAM would help with the higher resolutions, but it appears it's necessary just to compete at the higher rez's with the GTX.
Since when does the amount of VRAM have anything to do with performance (on the high end)? The 9800pro 128 and 256 performed basically the same with their gen of games. The X800Xl 512 was just as fast (barely faster sometimes) as the 256 version and the same thing can be said about the 6800Ultra 512. The only game that can currently take advantage of 512mb of video memory is F.E.A.R. and only on high settings.
And how many 512mb 7800GTX are in production and buyable right now? Thats right, none.