ATI Radeon X1800 GTO Launched

SippinTea writes "ATI has also hastened to market with a launch of their own this week, with a new Performance Mid-Range Graphics Card. The Radeon X1800 GTO is a chopped-down version of the Radeon X1800 XL with 12 pixel pipelines and less expensive, lower speed GDDR3 DRAM on board. It compares well with the new GeForce 7600GT but can it compete with a GeForce 7900GT for only a few dollars more?"

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Speed Check

[robotsrule]

If you put four of them together you can actually run the first full second of the trailer for the next version of Doom.

A quick run down of how this works

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing top of the line graphics card.
2. Sell it for $500
3. Spend a few more million dollars figuring out how to cripple top of the line graphics card.
4. Sell it for half the price.
5. Profit?
6. Consumers figure out how to re-enabled all the features that were crippled making there $250 graphics card perform almost equal to the $500 version.

Right.

[Anonymous Coward]

I am offically an Old-Fart(tm).

Presumably you are the grand old age of 26 or something. I see this all the time on ./ and elsewhere: "You young 'uns today! Why, in my day we only had 32MB TNT2 cards when we played Quake3! I was lucky to get 60 fps, and liked it".

Guys like me started out on punch cards, and worked with guys from the ENIAC-era...they used to do the "You young 'uns today...!" thing too, only they complained that we wouldn't know how to program with patch cords to save our lives.

Those guys are mostly dead now, so, guess what...I feel old.

Re:Too many video cards

[eyegone]

And too (two) few companies.