RV710/RV740 brings new life to low-end and mid-range segment

[Andreas G]

AMD's current low-end and mid-range cards, Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series, have been criticized for really only being low-end parts. The performance of the cards is anything but impressive, but then the price of the cards reflects that. According to a recent story at Fudzilla, both of these series were compromised by ATI's goal to equip the cards with as many features as possible, which left little room for performance parts. The upcoming RV710 and RV740 chips are supposed to change this by keeping the features, but get more performance parts inside the cores.

[grynnan]

Even though ATI is about to release a new cooler family of their graphic cards, and we will find Hybrid Crossfire on cards with a little bit more "omph", they shot them self in the other foot, by not releasing drivers for hybrid to XP.
HTPC/Cube fanatics will run from 780G and ATI 4Xxx when they realize that their new hardware will reduce it self to 2year old junk, by forcing them to use a retarded OS to gain the features they want.

[Delph1]

I would like to see Hybrid CrossFire and CrossFireX with XP too, but it's all Microsoft's fault we won't.

The drivers can't be ported back to XP because of how Vista handles drivers overall.
It would take one more driver developer team to get that done, and I don't think anyone wants more chaos in AMD/ATI's driver development department.

//Andreas
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