Quote Originally Posted by Stuen4y
Compared to what, to nvidia's almost insane high prices? We see different price policy from ati and it should work better and sale more vga-s.
*sigh* I have seen the leaked prices as well. But people here seem to have short memories. AMD's own literature admits that the 4850 is supposed to compete with the 8800GT and the 4870 is supposed to compete with the 8800GTS 512 and 9800 GTX. But no one seems to believe them. AMD is pretty short on money at the moment. If they really thought the 4850 for instance could compete with the GTX260 don't you think they would be pricing a bit closer to Nvidia? Now maybe it's true that AMD overestimated the performance of the GTX200 series, but AMD is a huge corporation. They are in business to make money. They are not saints. If their cards do better in comparison to Nvidia, they will probably raise MSRPs and even if they don't the market will do it for them. I remember not so long ago when ATI was on top. Their cards were more expensive than Nvidia for equal levels of performance. Of course ATI is no longer in control of pricing. And, unlike ATI, AMD does have a history of agressive pricing. But you could still see their true colors before Core was released in the way that they priced their FX series. Not much bang for the buck there. The point of all this is that AMD would be gouging too if they thought they could get away with it. I think the 4870 will be slightly faster than the 8800GTS/9800GTX, and I think the 4870x2 will be something like 20% faster than the GTX280 when it is released in late August. Then we will see about what angels they are about "ridiculous" pricing.