Hello? Sleeping? The R600 has been delayed and delayed BECAUSE ATI has been trying to figure out how the hell to deal with the fact that the 8800GTX still kicks even the fastest R600-based part's ass (i.e. X2900 HD XTX). ATI was set to sell a flagship product (with flagship price) and spouted off all kinds of crap about re-taking the graphics crown from Nvidia. Sadly, the benches that are starting to leak one site after the next since last week put the fastest R600 incarnation closer to an 8800GTS than 8800GTX.
Meanwhile Nvidia has the 8800 Ultra they've had in their pockets for 3-4 months, plus they've got the 8900GTX, 8900GT2, 8950GTX and 8950GT2 all lined up ready to slap down ATI in case they WERE a contender.
Bad times for AMD and ATI (and yet these two geniuses thought it was a good idea to merge). Intel is killing AMD with its excellent Core 2 Cpu's (intel increased its market share in ONE QUARTER (Q1 07) more than AMD's entire year 2006 growth) and Nvidia is kicking ATI and the only place ATI cards have left to go are bargain bin ..
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Hello? Sleeping? The R600 has been delayed and delayed BECAUSE ATI has been trying to figure out how the hell to deal with the fact that the 8800GTX still kicks even the fastest R600-based part's ass (i.e. X2900 HD XTX). ATI was set to sell a flagship product (with flagship price) and spouted off all kinds of crap about re-taking the graphics crown from Nvidia. Sadly, the benches that are starting to leak one site after the next since last week put the fastest R600 incarnation closer to an 8800GTS than 8800GTX.
Meanwhile Nvidia has the 8800 Ultra they've had in their pockets for 3-4 months, plus they've got the 8900GTX, 8900GT2, 8950GTX and 8950GT2 all lined up ready to slap down ATI in case they WERE a contender.
Bad times for AMD and ATI (and yet these two geniuses thought it was a good idea to merge). Intel is killing AMD with its excellent Core 2 Cpu's (intel increased its market share in ONE QUARTER (Q1 07) more than AMD's entire year 2006 growth) and Nvidia is kicking ATI and the only place ATI cards have left to go are bargain bin ..