In his review of the 3870, Steven Walton of LegionHardare.com (thanks for the above link) outlines the relative market strategies of ATI and nVidia very nicely. To paraphrase, ATI overpromises and underdelivers. nVidia underpromises and overdelivers. Here's Walton's summary quote.
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Perhaps the biggest cause for excitement was in the name, as Radeon HD 3870 suggests that this is in fact a next generation product. Rather AMD/ATI is just trying to stretch the R600 architecture a little bit further. So making the Radeon HD 3870 sound like something it clearly is not, will most likely upset a number of readers. Nvidia actually did the opposite by making the GeForce 8800 GT sound like another run of the mill GeForce 8800 series graphics card that was probably going to be a little bit slower than the GTS version. Of course the 8800 GT was much more, offering games a performance vs. price ratio that was unimaginable only a few months ago.
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Nuff said. Another case of selling promises and hype instead of delivering a great product. It's great to have competition, but it would be better have GOOD competition in the marketplace. Come on AMD/ATI! You should do better.
