Anyway there is no excuse really but at 3:00am in the morning when the NDA was lifted here in Australia I posted the review and fell asleep. This is actually pretty easy to do and normally I check all the graphs pretty carefully.
When putting together my review I accidently selected the wrong cells in excel which swapped the Radeon HD 2900XT and GeForce 8800 GTS around in a few tests. Wow what a conspiracy that is! Truth be told I did make an embarrassing error that I normally wouldn’t make and hope to never make again. For the time being, GeForce 8800 GT cards are very hard to come by and often users are forced to pay considerably more than the $250 MSRP. What is more impressive is the fact that AMD just announced the Radeon HD 3870 and it's already selling for just $220. On the other hand this new Radeon features an attractive price tag of just $220, making it a fair bit cheaper than the 8800 GT. It is disappointing because the GeForce 8800 GT is faster than the 2900XT in a majority of titles. Already we have learned that the Radeon HD 3870 delivers 2900XT-like performance for the most part, which is both disappointing and impressive. So, designed to combat the GeForce 8800 GT is the Radeon HD 3870, which features a long list of very impressive specifications.
AMD RADEON HD 3870 RELEASE DATE PC
If the suppositions are true, we might face yet another delay.This week AMD came to unveil its latest generation of ATI graphics hardware, an awaited release that without a doubt created a lot of expectations and speculation especially because of two factors:ġ) The dominant player, Nvidia had just killed its whole high-end line up two weeks before, in favor of an affordable and more efficient model, the GeForce 8800GT.Ģ) A holiday season that has shaped up to become one of the most exciting in recent times for PC gamers, with a buttload of good titles like Unreal Tournament 3, Crysis, Call of Duty 4, World in Conflict, The Orange Box, Bioshock, Hellgate: London, and the list goes on.
AMD RADEON HD 3870 RELEASE DATE FULL
When it gets on the latter, the air is already hot and cannot absorb all the residual heat, so it is likely that the second core won't be able to function at full capacity. The fan blows the air over the first RV670 graphics core, then the airflow "floods" the second GPU. Both of the cores are cooled with two heatsinks and a single cooling fan on top of them. I have told you yesterday about the fact that the reference card is a dual-GPU version with two RV670 graphics cores. It would be just great if that was it, but I think there are some technical troubles that need adjusting before releasing it to the hungry pack of gamers. Moreover, some of the oveclocking junkies out there might wait for the GeForce 9800 Gx2. But, given the pretty significant price tag ($615.35), I strongly doubt that they will run out of stock anytime soon.
The initial supposition is that the company wants to let the retail stores pile some serious quantities of video cards on their stock, in order not to run out of the precious Radeon HD 3870 X2. Earlier this month, AMD announced that the video card would be officially unveiled on January the 23rd, but the company pushed forward the official unveiling for January the 28th. The bottom line is that the official release of the shiny Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card has been re-scheduled for January 28 (the initial launch date). Things got a little fishy at the manufacturer's headquarters and we got a nice delay, the Advanced Micro Devices style. Bad news for the hardware enthusiasts and for the drooling overclockers that kept counting for an early release of the fastest video card on Earth.
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