Posted on Friday, September 30 2005 @ 00:54:05 CEST by LSDsmurf
Hot on the heels of the £110 Radeon X800 GT (8-pipeline, 475MHz/980MHz core/memory), and the £130 Radeon X800 GTO (12-pipeline, 400MHz/980MHz) cards, SAPPHIRE's launching yet another Radeon X800 video card. You'd think that it had the midrange ATI-based market sewn-up, with SKUs liberally dotted between £100-£180, However, SAPPHIRE's realised, right now, that there's still a large financial gap between its X800 GTO (£130) and X800 XL (£180) 256MB-equipped cards. That ~£50 price differential just opens the door enough for a 'new' SKU to be born, and to be exclusive to SAPPHIRE..