Some time ago we published data about the future changes in price policy from NVIDIA company . After the release of new high end solution : geForce of 8800 Ultra, which will have the price position $549, the cost Of geForce 8800 GTX will be lowered to $449, and GeForce 8800 GTS will cost from $249 to $299 depending on memory capacity.
It is known that GeForce 8800 Ultra is considered as answer of NVIDIA to the release Of r600. Its logical to assume that the cost of high end AMD and NVIDIA card will be located in the same range. As reports associate with reference to its own sources, Video card on base of chip r600 will cost $499. . If this information is accurate, then Radeon x2900 XTX ($499) will prove to be between GeForce 8800 GTX ($449) and GeForce 8800 Ultra ($549).
As assert associate , video card on base of chip r600 paired with processor core 2 Extreme x6800 (2.93 GHz) collects approximately 12 500 points in 3DMark'06. The overclocked to frequencies 630/2060 MHz geForce 8800 GTX under analogous conditions collect only 11 391 points. If this parity is preserved in the majority of applications, then the price Of r600 can be considered justified.
Many associates yesterday reported that on AMD site where reference about the official name of video card on base of chip r600. As it was communicated earlier, they are called Radeon x2900. Related Products :
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