Elfear
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Originally posted by: Gstanfor
We'll see how G71 & R580 stack up side by side. (Gotta love ATi's emergency edition catalysts too, just after 3dmark06 was released).
Well, since most ATI owners (including the X1800XT guys) are reporting either no change or a drop in performance for their 3DMark06 scores, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intended purpose of the release.
Originally posted by: beggerking
you must be joking! x1800xt is intended for 7800 GTX 512MB as expected by everybody(except ATI)
This has been hashed over way too many times. It comes down to, do you compare by price point or by release date? If you think the latter than I think you need to go talk to a few more people. Anyone without unlimited funds will look at a specific price range rather than a release date. Do you ever hear people saying "Ok, I'm looking for a new card but it has to have been released in the last 2 weeks, what would you recommend?" Hmmmm....
The more likely scenario is "Ok, I'm looking for a new card in the $400-500 range, what would you recommend?" Being that the latter case is much more prevelant, the X1800XT most closely matches the 256MB 7800GTX rather than the $750-1000 512MB 7800GTX. The 256MB 7800GTX is it's main competitor at this point in time.