ATI to Retail and Launch R520 on the Same Day

mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
edited July 2005 in Science & Tech
It looks like ATI will follow in NVIDIA's footsteps and have it's next generation video card available on it's release date and not have another paper launch.
According to an insider, ATI is aware of NVIDIA’s strategy and knows the negative impact it could have on its corporate image and financial position if it tried to do another paper launch. The insider reported that ATI could’ve released its R520 at Computex (or even when NVIDIA announced its G70 GPU), if it intended. But one of the key reasons for waiting until August (hopefully) is that it wants to make sure the cards are available for purchase exactly when the R520 core is introduced. Therefore, you can expect the availability of the R520 to be immediate.
Good move, ATI!

Source: Cool Tech Zone

Comments

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited July 2005
    I'm anxious to see how this performs. Not because I can afford it - more because I'm curious as to how ATi went from hero to zero.

    Well, they didn't really, but they certainly seem to be slipping a lot lately. I mean, the 7800 GTX is insane. I hope ATi has something awesome up their collective sleeve, and not just a core/mem boost, though that worked passably well on their x800 series.

    I want to see working Crossfire, too! C'mon ATi, you haven't lost yet!
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