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Default AMD to take back graphics crown from Nvidia ?

NVIDIA shakened by Radeon HD 4800, lowers prices?
Written by Andreas G 11 June 2008 18:53

It seems that NVIDIA believed that RV770 would only have 480 shader
processors, and only be a modest upgrade of the RV670 core. This is
suppose to be one of the reasons for the rather high prices of the
GeForce GTX cards, that and the ridiculous manufacturing costs. Now
that it has been unveiled that RV770 does not have 480 shader
processors, but rather 800, it seems NVIDIA might lower the price of
the GeForce GTX 260 to make it a bit more appealing in comparison to
Radeon HD 4870. We're hearing $399 from more than one source, but
we're also hearing that Radeon HD 4870 might not come as cheap as
hoped, $349. The GeForce GTX prices are expected to stay put for a
long time, but AMD has every possibility to lower the prices of its
new graphics cards, if sales are slow, without losing much money.

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