NVIDIA 8600GT and 8600GTS Pictured

[Starscream]

uhh the x1600XT was somewhat decent...

it had 8 pipelines unlike the rest of the x1600s which had 4.

x1600XT and x1650XT both outperform the 7600GT

you shure about that?
i thought that the x1600XT had 4 pixel pipes with 3 shaders per pipe.
the diffrence being higher clocks and GDDR3.

and that only the X1650XT has 8 pixel pipes.

a further problem at launch being that several partners were kind of slow with launching the Xts and ofc the fact that at launch the X1600pro was barely faster then a 6600GT but cost way more in price.


anyway the last 2 gens ATi launched pretty bad mid-range cards (X700 and X1600) wich were beaten by Nvidias mid-range cards in price and performence.
months afterwarts ATi had good cards in the mid-range (X800GTO and X1650xt and X1900gt) but that was mostly to late for alot of customers.

so i also hope that this time around they do a good job from the start.

@perkam
ive never seena review but i kind of doubt that a 9600 can beat a 128bit 7300.