Impact in sales AMD has so far with Radeon 3800 series

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Shtal

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How much impact in sales AMD has so far with Radeon 3800 series

I bought while back from Bestbuy ATI Radeon 3870 for as low as $215 US dollars.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...p=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960

GF8800GT-512MB for ~$290 US dollars is too high.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=8800GT+512&x=0&y=0

I do like NEW 8800GT-256MB version of GT for ~$210 US dollars, but it's limited with frame buffer at high resolutions.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=8800GT+256&x=0&y=0

My verdict that Radeon 3870 is the winner for price crown and performance it gives for your money that you spend.
 
At $215, sure. But it's around $250 on Newegg and it usually is outperformed by 8800GT 512 by enough to make the 8800 GT worthy of another $30 or so.
 
swaaye said:
At $215, sure. But it's around $250 on Newegg and it usually is outperformed by 8800GT 512 by enough to make the 8800 GT worthy of another $30 or so.
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I do agree, I guess I was lucky that I got mine for $215.

If newegg will lower their prices in the range that I payed mine for :D :D then it's worthy for the price.
 
This is very possibly the least scientific way to look at this, ever, but there are about 5 times as many customer reviews on Newegg for 8800GTs as for HD3870s. And there are still about 3-3.5x more reviews if you count HD3850s.

Now, the timeframes are different, but it's probably fair to say there's a ratio of 2:1+ for G92 vs RV670 if you scale the numbers based on their time on the market. Is this a fair comparison? Yes and no. It is a rough approximation of one specific factor, which is the number of sales at e-tail stores. However, that doesn't take OEMs and System Integrators into consideration, let alone retail in general.

Certainly RV670 is going to increase ATI's market share by a non-negligible percentage, since they didn't compete in that huge price segment before. It's not perfectly obvious by how much though, if that's what you were wondering...
 
November 2007 story:
I also wanted to point out that many people who was trying to purchase GF8800GT-512 was out of luck do to Nvidia didn't had enough G92 chips for the demand market, and many people went with RV670XT as alternative option.
 
Shtal said:
November 2007 story:
I also wanted to point out that many people who was trying to purchase GF8800GT-512 was out of luck do to Nvidia didn't had enough G92 chips for the demand market, and many people went with RV670XT as alternative option.
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Caused by production issues or by strong OEM demand drying up the retail channel stock ?
You don't know... ;)
 
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