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ATI X1800, X1600, X1300 (R5XX) Pricing Revelation!

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Published: Wednesday 28th September, 2005 | Author: Steve Kerrison
Companies: ATi Technologies (All ATi Technologies content)

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R520 lands next week, but how much will it set you back if you want one at launch? We've got details on the pricing of R520 and its brethren across the X1xx range.

The top dog X1800 XT with 512MiB of memory will be priced at $549, with a 256MiB variant weighing in at $499, while the X1800 XL 256MiB will cost $449. A quick check of a popular US online retailer showed NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX selling around the $460 mark, with the 7800 GT costing ~$360.

Moving down into the X1600 range, the 256MiB XT will launch at $249, with a 128MiB version of the XT setting you back $199; the same price as a 256MiB X1600 Pro.

Of the X1300s, the most expensive X1300 Pro 256MiB will cost $149, while the cheapest X1300 Hypermemory 128MiB will weigh in at $79.

Add-in board partners will, of course, influence pricing depending on the bundles they decide to package with their products. However, we expect X1xx pricing will fairly rapidly adjust, squaring up to or sandwiching between NVIDIA's products.

Here's a full run-down of the prices we have:

X1xxx	xx	Memory	Price
X1800	XT	512MiB	$549
X1800	XT	256MiB	$499
X1800	XL	256MiB	$449
X1600	XT	256MiB	$249
X1600	XT	128MiB	$199
X1600	Pro	256MiB	$199
X1600	Pro	128MiB	$149
X1300	Pro	256MiB	$149
X1300		256MiB	$129
X1300		128MiB	$99
X1300	Hyper Memory	128MiB	$79

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Posted by fredered - Wed 28th Sep 2005, 4:58pm

i am just waiting for the existing cards to drop in price, like the 6800 cards losing £50 in a lot of cases almost overnight when the 7800 cards were releasedQuote

Posted by =TcQi= - Wed 28th Sep 2005, 5:13pm

Any word on quantities at this point? I would suspect if the top end models are in short supply then the price will remain near the RRP for longer. I'd be interested to see if ATI start offering Mobo + Graphics Card bundles too.

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Posted by Syn - Thu 29th Sep 2005, 9:14am

Quote: =TcQi=
Any word on quantities at this point? I would suspect if the top end models are in short supply then the price will remain near the RRP for longer. I'd be interested to see if ATI start offering Mobo + Graphics Card bundles too.

=TcQi=

With ATi partnering up with TCMS i dont think there will be a short supply of any card. Plus i think that Sapphire might be the one that does the deal with mobo + gfx card. I dunno about you but i am just waiting to collect money to buy XT and Sapphire PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 mobo should be very nice PC in the end, even nicer if i manage to snatch FX57.Quote

Posted by nev_payne - Thu 29th Sep 2005, 9:18am

I sence a disturbance in the force....I sence a lot of people screaming obsenities when they find they could have saved a fortune on their card by waiting a few days.

*giggles to himself*Quote

Posted by merlin2001 - Thu 29th Sep 2005, 9:26am

I think the X1600's are going to be the most interesting part of this launch (assuming they become available at the same time - I personally have seen a lot of hype and noise about the x1800's but almost nothing about the x1600's). it's not a far stretch of the imagination to guess that the x1800's will perform somewhere around 5% above/below the 7800 GTX, but what I am wondering is how the mid range of the new generation will behave relative to the X700 (and now x800 GT)/6600GT's as nvidia hasn't released anything into this segment of the market yet...Quote