AMD 'to ship half a million RV670s'
WE HAD A TALK with several AMD reps last night, and they're claiming that AMD is going to outship Nvidia in the 8800 vs. 3800 battle. So far, Nvidia's partners have told us that GeForce 8800GT came to market somewhere in the 40-50,000 unit range (overall, including OEM and retail sales) and there is a shortage right now.
The funny thing about launch events is that now you have reps from companies that ship both Nvidia and ATI parts and those partners are openly stating where problems lie. It is pretty interesting to hear about very poor allocations for one of the top Graphzilla manufacturers, where the available numbers of parts were 8 to 1 in ATI's favour.
AMD plans to ship around 500,000 units of Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 by the year's end, with the accent on single-slot 3850. According to orders, there should also be a substantial number of 3850s combined with 512MB of memory.
The guys are certain that price points of 179 and 229 Euro (includes average VAT figure in EUroland) combined with DirectX 10.1 and full UVD decode will spark considerable interest from the market.
Only time will tell who is really going to ship more, and who'll be in higher demand for Yuletide shopping madness. µ
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Cheaper than the current price for a 8800GT at £135 verses £150 to £180
It doesn't matter what AMD does since prices around 200 euros won't be competitive enough against 8800 GT. I don't know what others are thinking but seeing from the reviews Nvidia kicks ATI's butt quite hard so 8800GT is clearly the winner of this fight.
Yea, az, you're right... Too bad you can't get a single 8800GT! Let alone two of them. With 3870 it's a different issue. So, performance isn't always everything!
Newegg has just sold out on the HD3870s thought I got one at NCIXUS.
I just saw the 8800GT's are now available on Best Buy and CompUSA...
Yeah the 8800GT does kick the 3870 hard for only 10% higher cost.

3870 512MB - £160
8800GT 512MB - £175

According the review I read on www.tomshardware.co.uk the 8800GT is a better performer in almost all games they tried.

In terms of power and noise, it looks like there is little difference in power but ATI are using a noisier fan. It just gets worse doesn't it.

Now if NVidia can get some 8800GT cards to the shops then I might be able to buy one!
3870's are sold out almost everywhere in the US (retailer websites), and the price is between $215 (Best Buy, sold out) and $260. The 8800's seem to be more expensive, but don't quote me on that.