ATI RADEON HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Review

NVIDIA has good reason to cut prices of its 9800 GTX (and GTX 260) and launch an overclocked 9800 GTX+. This is another sign that AMD has launched a very successful product. While RADEON HD 4870 occupies the price segment below 300 USD (real prices will be higher at first, as it always happens with new products), but its performance sometimes reaches the level of the more expensive GTX 260! Now we understand why NVIDIA has started cutting GTX 260/280 prices, despite lower profits. Such cards are very expensive to produce due to 512-bit layout (even though it’s actually 448-bit), expensive GT2xx GPU, etc.). So, we can congratulate AMD with the long-awaited successful debut.

If GeForce GTX 260/280 gets cheaper by a hundred dollars or more, the battle will become really fierce.

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