ATI’s Pricing For New R520 Video Cards
Next week ATI’s new R520’s are set out to sail. Only 3 months late of their expected launch date. Some speculate they were running a little behind because of the whole XBOX360 chip manufacturing process. Who knows. In any case, their new flagship X1800 XT with 512MB of memory will be priced at $549, with a 256MB variant weighing in at $499, while the X1800 XL 256MiB will cost $449. A quick check of a popular online hardware pricing site showed Nvidia’s GeForce 7800 GTX selling around the $460 mark, with the 7800 GT costing $360.
Below is the complete run down on the new pricing strucutre. All MSRP of course so expect cheaper prices at your favorite online retailer:
| X1xxx | xx | Memory | Price |
| X1800 | XT | 512MiB | $549 |
| X1800 | XT | 256MiB | $499 |
| X1800 | XL | 256MiB | $449 |
| X1600 | XT | 256MiB | $249 |
| X1600 | XT | 128MiB | $199 |
| X1600 | Pro | 256MiB | $199 |
| X1600 | Pro | 128MiB | $149 |
| X1300 | Pro | 256MiB | $149 |
| X1300 | 256MiB | $129 | |
| X1300 | 128MiB | $99 | |
| X1300 | Hyper Memory | 128MiB | $79 |
DerekReynoldsDotCom said,
September 29, 2005@ 1:00 am
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