ATI fires back with the X1000 series

The graphics wars heat back up..

Wednesday, October 5, 2005 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

ATI has finally has an answer to nVidia's 7800 in the form of the Radeon X1000 series.  Whether the new family of graphics cards can match nVidia's latest offerings remains to be seen.

The top of the line card, the X1800 has over 320 million transistors in it, 16 pixel shaders and other features that simply look crazy-incredible.  In either case, it'll certainly be more than enough for today's games.  One can hope that ATI remains committed to their generally good driver quality -- something nVidia has been lacking on recently despite having more horse power on their cards.


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George Rogers Jr
Reply #1 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 8:14 PM
I like Nvidia as well as ATI.....hope these new RadeonX1000 cards keep pace - I feel both companies compliment each other with this kind of competition! GO ATI GO!!!
thomassen
Reply #2 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 8:34 PM
I just hope none of the companies gets a too big upper hand on the other.
George Rogers Jr
Reply #3 Wednesday, October 5, 2005 11:40 PM
I agree thomassen, but if you read the review/results it's not very promising based on the benchmarks/costs for ATI....
Sraf
Reply #4 Thursday, October 6, 2005 5:40 PM
If you follow the develpment stories on why this took so long to come, there was also a mention of ATi fabbing some 32 pipe parts, perhaps something will come of that.

I think George and Thomassen hit this one on the head

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