No HD 2950 card for you! Here is a HD 3800 instead.

Loves it. Kudos to AMD for adopting rational naming conventions.

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THIS PAGE ITS TOO "NVIDIAN"

and people thought the AMD Ati partnership was doomed! LMAO

LMFAO! love the pic. and hey its a way to well try and beat nvidia. so when is the 3600xt getting here?

Hey guys!
Well, as much as I hate to admit it, ATI has yet again continued to succeed at the lackluster game they've been playing for the last 3 or 4 years now. And that is the old "Paper-launch, Postpone and Rename" trick. Call it what you will, be it "Smoke and Mirrors", "Slight of hand" or just a plain old "Shim-Sham", they continue to disappoint when it comes down to releasing their "next big thing". I mean, how many times in recent memory have you been anxiously awaiting the new card from ATI, you know, the one that will kick nVidia's proverbial butt up and down the street, only to have nVidia release one first? DOH! Then, ATI mysteriously "abandons" the card they were planning on releasing, tweak the existing card to meet or just-barely exceed the new nVidia cards specs., change the name or series description and then VOILA, mediocrity! Putting it in Boxing terminology, to make matters worse you just know that during the time ATI was messing around throwing their jab, nVidia has already begun winding up their next big haymaker! Sure, they get their shots in, but they're headin' for a face-to-face meeting with the canvas.
Yes, yes I'm still (and probably always will be) a die-hard ATI fan despite the company's seemingly relentless tardiness and their products consistent runner-up-iness. But seriously, how long can a company survive taking this kind of beating on a regular basis? How long will their laurels last? How long can they rely on "fan loyalty"? How many years do they have left until the generation of gamers who can still remember what happened to VooDoo are completely replaced by a new generation of gamers who either don't or simply don't care?
Nobody likes to be a loser! Once people get tired of being a fan of the losing team, at some point they'll cave. Especially when things like bragging rights, kill-death ratio's and wins-losses are at stake, not to mention their hard earned money!
Because if all ATI's got are people like me who stick with them like an armchair quarterback who painfully sticks it out with his losing team for years on end praying for just one big win, then frankly, at the risk of sounding completely pessimistic, the end draws nigh!

Babalugats

Interesting. I wonder if this is just to coincide with a new naming scheme. Or if they really did some serious retooling in rv670...

i doubt they did that. and B4 they start this they should work out the cap drivers for damn 2000 series.

Actually, I applaud AMD for doing that. Now I can only hope that Nvidia will follow suit when people start buying ATI products.

Wouldn't it be nice if they'd name their card something which would coincide with the AMD chip they're using on the card? Such as the "ATI Radeon RV670XT" etc.? Bah! What am I thinking! Let the consumer know exactly what he's buying and putting it into terms even a casual gamer can understand?! That's just crazy! Shhh! If they'd ever lose it and do something like that, what would we need GPUReview for? ;)

LMAO!!! ATi panicking that nvidia WILL BEAT THEM, love the pic man!!!!!

Abandoning the GT/Pro/XT/XTX isn't a very good idea ,but oh well.. all you have to do is get used to it .

Alright, HD 3999 for me then.

No, no I'm just kidding, I have an Ultra.

but i prefer they use GT/PRO/XT/XTX, it makes the name more cool and easier for us to know their performance, so we don't have to memorise huge numbers, think what? Buy lottery?

"Grande Turismo", "Professional", "XT" and all that nonesense are are totally random. Whereas a plain numbering scheme shows how various models relate in an instant without the BS.

If HD 3800 is still based on R6x0 chip I wish they stuck with 2XXX till R700

wyz135 makes a very good point when you think about this in terms of the automobile market. For example, when the conversation turns to performance cars, suffixes like "SS", "GTO", "GT", "Z" or "Si" etc. not only instantly identify the car's make and model but more importantly the level of performance of the car in question in easy to remember terms. In contrast, when conversing about cars who's model identifications ARE numbers, most people won't know what you're talking about. Nothing against BMW, as they put out some of the best performance cars on the road, but they a good example. I think most people might be familiar with the "M3" and "M5" but beyond that, I couldn't tell you what other cars they make or the differences between them. Just go to www.BMW.com and browse their vehicle lineup for a few minutes and then see how many you can remember, much less differentiate later! The number designations are forgettable and more easily mistaken for eachother compared to, say Honda with their Civic, Accord, S2000, Element, Pilot and so on. But as I've said before in this and other threads, the name of the game IS to keep the consumer guessing. What would we do without sites like GPU? Kudos to Mike and GPU, a shining beam of guiding light, piercing the black, foggy void created by marketing executives who's sole purpose is to beguile, confuse and mislead the consumer in order to increase sales of sluggish or less-sought-after cards.

@ Babalugats: all i have to say is 9800 GT