XFX might begin making AMD cards rumor and other news.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 03:03:49 Fri, November 14, 2008

Apparently Kyle has been hearing rumors about XFX partnering up with AMD. Will XFX venture forth into the red forest like Gainward did? I have asked an XFX Support guy for a comment on this and if I get a response (that I am allowed to share) you guys will be the first to know.

In other news, graphics card makers are slowing their production lines down due to the crappy economy of our fine country. First tier makers have already taken action and apparently second tier makers may be considering the possibility of merging with other makers. Hopefully these mergers will not be necessary because we all benefit (non-reference designs and cool bundles) from the competition of card manufacturers.

There are new ATI drivers out that will increase your performance in Far Cry 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky for people who own HD 3000 and HD 4000 series cards. Enjoy them to the fullest.

The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™

FarCry 2 – performance gains of 3 to 10% for Single card mode and 8 to 14% in Crossfire mode, with some specific configurations showing even greater improvements. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and Radeon
HD3xxx products.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – performance gains of 6 to 18% in single card settings and 10 to 30% in CrossfireX mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD04xxx and Radeon HD3xxx products.

6 Comments

Friday, November 14, 2008 7:49:22 PM

Duesco
Member

I always thought XFX made the best-looking Team Green cards.

Sapphire makes the best-looking ATI cards though.

Friday, November 14, 2008 9:54:23 PM

McArthur
n00b

That would be fabulous

Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:34:01 PM

SpacemanSpiff
n00b

Maybe we'll see XFX use a black PCB with an ATI chipset, that would be pretty sweet. As of now your choices for ATI boards are red or red. with an occasional blue in there, but not many.

Sunday, November 16, 2008 2:15:11 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

XFX merging with ATi ? Never thought I'd see that . Just shows how big of a mess nVidia made with their GT200 cards pricings... they are actually selling their GT200 cards at below the cost of making them at this point .
Can't wait to see what XFX puts in the ATi card bundles and what kinds of stickers on them , though ... probably a big green sticker LOL!

Sunday, November 16, 2008 4:42:49 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

I'd love that, I really don't like the current manufacturers of ATI cards. Either they have fan issues, noise issues, durability issues or in Gainward's case, price issues.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:49:22 PM

-RK
Senior Member

I agree with you for the most part Headfoot, although I've had pretty good experiences with Sapphire.

XFX is a pretty good brand so I would hope that they manage to keep making NV cards also.

On the drivers, I'm wondering whether ATI just added performance profiles for those games, or if they really got that much extra efficiency out of them.

It would make the HD4xxx series completely kicass if they actually got drivers close to efficient for the raw power of the cards.

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