September 30th, 2008

AMD RV670 price cuts

After that, as released on the market NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT at the end of October, AMD has decided to lower the price of its upcoming graphics cards ATI Radeon HD 3850 and 3870. Earlier, speaking to 200-260 dollars, the price is reduced while the amount to $ 180-240, and thus slightly less than the 8800 GT.

Recall that the new ATI chips will support such news, as DirectX 10.1, CrossFire X technology with support for up to four graphics cards and UVD acceleration. On board, the Radeon HD 3850 there will be strong RV670XT chip clock 750 MHz and 256 or 512 MB of memory GDDR3 1800 MHz. The 3870 is to have 512 MB of GDDR4 2400 MHz core and 825 MHz RV670Pro strong.

What price will be in stores in practice, we learn right from the days when AMD will present new models. The limited availability of GeForce 8800 GT card rule is that in Poland instead of 900 gold price is offered for more than a thousand. However, this one is almost certain – NVIDIA arrives at a solid competitor, which may do little confusion in the market price graphics cards. And to use all this.