It's that mid-range segment we'll be focusing on today - For some time now NVIDIA have largely ruled the roost in this discipline, courtesy of first their GeForce 6600 parts in the last generation, followed by the GeForce 7600 this time around. Although the Radeon X1800 GTO has succeeded in running the GeForce 7600 GT close (and often beating it out) in the performance stakes, from ATI's point of view this part, based as it is around a cut-down high-end R520 core, isn't really as cost effective as they would like. However much we like to sit and crow about performance as consumers, for the GPU manufacturers and their AIB partners considerations such as manufacturing costs, yields and profit margins are at least as important, if not more so.



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