The Zone

After the release of NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GT and its soon to come GeForce 9800 GX2, how will AMD-ATI counter it after just releasing its own dual GPU card (the HD 3870 X2)? With its HD Radeon 3600 and 3400 series barely doing better than most 8500 or 8600 cards out there, is AMD-ATI hoping for a somehow untouched market of HD video computer users to come to their rescue? Which is basically all that the 3600 and 3400 series will be able to offer.

However, we just recently got our hands on a reworked HD 3870 that was both single slot design and gave comparable performance to an overclocked 8800 GT. If AMD-ATI can encourage other card manufacturers to follow suit then maybe AMD-ATI has a chance of hanging on instead of trying in vain to go head to head for the latest and greatest path that its competitor is going for. After all, to repeat that age old adage, its not how big your package is, its how you use it!