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I'm guessing the 3870 X2 is selling poorly simply because of it's name -- some people probably dismiss it as a minor version of the 3870, when it's actually Crossfire(SLI) on a card. They should have bumped up to 3920 or something like that. Despite decent reviews there's very little buzz, so there's a failure on AMD's part in that respect, too.
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MrJP |
Getting away from the fanboi arguments for a minute, the interesting part of these figures for me is the spectacular year-on-year growth. Given that discrete graphics card sales are driven mainly by the gaming market, this paints a very different picture of the health of PC gaming than the id/Epic doom-mongers would have you believe. Perhaps it is all to do with the quality of the individual games rather than the size of the market after all?
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juampa_valve_rde |
In perspective i believe ATI emmh AMD, has little money and make a good choice with the 3850/3870 die, which seems to offer scalable performance finally, specially easier today that all shaders are all the same, and correct pricing. Now they are pushing forward nicely the performance with drivers (they should have done this some time ago, but worst is nothing). Finally Phenom is available (with the ugly bug) but works, and now the 780g chipset seems to be an all terrain budget. All in all, they are going forward on what will give' em more money, mainstream, and thats not bad for my, if they keep offering good tech for low prices amd is my choice. A Phenom 9500 is cheaper than a C2D 6750 here (Argentina). Wait for the 9550 and the 45nm ones and we will see...
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ssidbroadcast |
In other news, earth rotates around sun.
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#6, lmao
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poulpy |
Wasn't expecting much more from AMD in '07 Q4 honestly as before the introduction of the 3xxx series in volume (late Q4?) they didn't have lots of compelling products to offer..
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alex666 |
"The report JPR sent us doesn't include any speculation on the cause of Nvidia's gains, but we'd be willing to bet the late October launch of the popular GeForce 8800 GT had something to do with it".
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For the same or less money you can get a better NVIDIA card in pretty much every price/performance range.
AMD either needs to drop its prices or release a more competitive card.
With NVIDIA announcing developments in ray tracing and PhysX. These features could put AMD into Matrox territory.