The AMD people really let me down on their 2000 series video card, by copying it from the Xbox 360 graphics card and make as their own, while Nvidia get the entire highlight with their 8 series, for their performance and the only product that delivers fast and high frame rates, but the price is outrageous, for just the 8800GTS is $500 to $700, while AMD did just the same with their high enders for about $600-$700 over the internet.
Now in 2008, the two companies are now bringing their next generation Directx10 cards, with ATI first with their 3000 series with 55nm architecture and supports Directx 10.1, while NVIDIA did their tune up with their G92 chipsets with the 9series with their tuned upgrades a higher clock count on both memory and GPU, and their PCIx2.0, which increase traffic to the graphics card to the motherboard and the other instruments in the motherboard. Anyway, these are the new high-end video cards that I want to show, on the green corner NVIDIA with their 9800GX2 and on the red corner is the ATI 3870X2, which are distributed from ASUS and XFX.
This two really are the top of the rank graphics, and only excluded to the enthusiast in mind (if a novice, try to at least read the instructions, before toying the video card, you may face damaging your ~$500 into just a silicon chips fried, yum!). These two are a solution to having two video card to improve performance, because they already have two GPU’s and can be Quad SLI or Crossfire, for those really demanding games at very high resolutions, taking about high resolutions, ATI scored really well in most Directx 10 games if you push the resolution into 1900×1200 mark, and that really makes this card, the ASUS EAH3870X2/3DHT/1G contrast to NVIDIA XFX9800GX2 at high resolutions, while the bundles between them, well, I have to hand it to XFX for their life time warranty to the video, which is a plus for over-clocking and more apps, but ASUS gives good bundles however, XFX really have to hand in them on their bundles to Enthusiast. And the 9800GX2 is losing the fight on the high resolution battle, but flogs ATI in low resolutions in some games.
XFX and ASUS, made the results nail biting, on their video cards, but the red chip, has got my applause, to their unexpected win over NVDIAS one year reign as the fastest graphics in 2008, really they convince me by the results over 9800GX2 in most tests, but price wise these two Juggernauts of graphics card, can result to a Juggernaut depth to most gamers, but if you get over the price, it is not bad to buy ATI 3870X2 cards, while NVIDIA, need to wakeup and really realize they are facing a headache from ATI and with their 9 series.
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