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Buoyed by the early promise of its ATI Radeon HD 4850 card, AMD expects its discrete graphics card market share to reach 40% in Q3, 2008 up from 30% at the beginning of this year. The performance-oriented HD 4850 is an absolute steal for $199 and most industry watchers expect it to tear into the market held by $200-300 card.
The launch of the HD 4850 left Nvidia with no choice but to drop the price of its GeForce 9800 GTX+ from $229 to $199. But when AMD decides to cut Radeon HD 4850’ price – a long way off – sales will get a huge boost.
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jwalch.hawk
June 28, 2008 at 12:24am
Is AMD's acquisition of ATI finally paying off?
Is this the much-anticipated AMD comeback?
Maybe, maybe not... But this card sure makes a convincing argument. Let's hope this continues.
DDTechGuy
June 27, 2008 at 4:40pm
I can't wait to see the benchmarks for this mid-ranged priced card...It might be a good interim upgrade card. Guess we'll know soon enough, eh?
StormEffect
June 27, 2008 at 5:30pm
The benchmarks for this card are ALL over the web. MaximumPC already posted their results to this site, actually. Anandtech and Extremetech also have their reports for this card as well as the 4870.
The 4850 powers through the 9800GTX, poor Nvidia! ^_^
opulent_rigs
June 27, 2008 at 5:20pm
a superb mid range choice this. it trumps the Geforce 9800 GTX+ too.
