AMD and NVIDIA have both launched new graphics cards targeting the same market segment. AMD has unleashed the much rumored Radeon HD 4890 (RV790) while NVIDIA launched its more anonymous GeForce GTX 275. Both cards cost around $300 and offers equivalent performance. AMD has most or less tweaked its Radeon HD 4870 with higher clock frequencies, while NVIDIA has altered the specifications of its already existing GTX models and squeezed in GeForce GTX 275 between GTX 260 and GTX 280.
AMD got the ball rolling with early rumors of RV790 and NVIDIA pulled a rabbit out of the hat in the form of GeForce GTX 275, just to make sure that AMD doesn’t gain too much from its new card.
ASUS Radeon HD 4890
No matter how the two has approached the situation and why they did what they did the situation we have today is one of the most even in a long time where price and availability will become the most important and ultimately deciding factor.
EVGA GeForce GTX 275 Superclocked
Radeon HD 4890 is the only of the two that can be found in stores today so even if GeForce GTX 275 may be just as fast, perhaps even marginally faster, the question is if people are willing to wait for NVIDIA to get its card out on the market. Who would have thought that AMD would have the hard launch and NVIDIA wouldn’t a few years back?
Below are a variety of reviews of AMD’s and NVIDIA’s new cards;
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 :: AnandTech :: Guru3D :: Driver Heaven :: Hot Hardware :: Hardware Canucks :: PC Perspective :: Legit Reviews
AMD Radeon HD 4890 :: Hot Hardware :: Club Overclocker
:: TweakTown :: Sweclockers :: InsideHW :: Hardware Canucks :: Elite Bastards :: Benchmark Reviews ::
