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Originally Posted by Akuma
ATI needs to get their act together. Their engineers make some damn good cards but their manufacturing is horrible. Two generations in a row of paper launches. The X850 was supposed to have much higher yeilds because of the new core, but they still couldn't get them out.
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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X850_Series.html
They have them in stock, which coincidently is where i get my boards from. The x850 is a lot more available than the xt-pe or the 6800ultra was at launch. The last launches of x800 and 6800 was a joke because of the paper launches.
The x850 isn't really a new core either its an overhauled r-420 core which in turn was an overhauled r-360 core. The r-520 is again gonna be an overhauled core of the x850 which i believe is the r-480. All theyre doing is shrinking the die size and adding new features. Its still plenty fast for todays games, the new core which is from the ground up is gonna be the r-600 or r-620.
I personally think the x850 was pointless, its meant to increase yields, but at the same time its pci-e only oOo: . Barely anyone has pci-e yet when you compare to the people that have agp. When the new boards launch in may or so i can bet that pci-e will appear first with agp lagging a few months behind to try to get people to migrate to pci-e.