Radeon 3400 HD series.

Rydian · Post by **Rydian** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:05 am

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/03/ ... es_coming/

For those of you that don't know, ATI's HD 38xx series is the competitor to nvidia's 8-series cards... though they are not as good as anything above the 320/640 meg GTS models.

So Nvidia's had the top of the market with the GTS 512 and GT and GTX and ultra cards for a while now.

So when details were leaked about a new ATI card, people got excited.

For nothing.

It's apparantly going to be a level or two below their 3800 series. A 64-bit memory bandwidth?

What do you think this will be for?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:32 am

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:33 am

Those are actually refreshes of the HD 2400 and HD 2600 series', but with barely any changes.

They're worthless, IMO...

kick · Post by **kick** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:52 pm

I.S.T. wrote:Those are actually refreshes of the HD 2400 and HD 2600 series', but with barely any changes.

They're worthless, IMO...

They're not,if the price is right

Very nice as a low-cost noiseless HTPC graphics card.The image quality,video/HDTV acceleration and in/out capabilities are outstanding for such a cheap card

Perfect for old box -> HTPC recyclers (the AGP version will sell like hotcakes)

Rydian · Post by **Rydian** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:45 am

Yeah, if these can be put into normal desktop configurations for the average person, instead of integrated intel stuff, it'll improve performance in vista with aero on, and of course provide multiple displays and stuff without being a $90 7600GT.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:59 am

kick wrote:
I.S.T. wrote:Those are actually refreshes of the HD 2400 and HD 2600 series', but with barely any changes.

They're worthless, IMO...
They're not,if the price is right
Very nice as a low-cost noiseless HTPC graphics card.The image quality,video/HDTV acceleration and in/out capabilities are outstanding for such a cheap card

Perfect for old box -> HTPC recyclers (the AGP version will sell like hotcakes)

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant worthless compared to the original models, especially seeing as how they'll be price cut when the new models are released.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:03 am

depends on the additions

if you think that DX 10.1 and pci-e 2.0 are important enough.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:09 am

DX10.1 would be too slow on the 3400, even for development purposes. Maybe not on the 3600...

>.>

And PCI Express 2.0 will make literally no difference in this case. None. If your card breaks down(And these things will last years, probably...), you'll buy a cheapo card from that generation, not spend a week and a half tracking this one down.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:16 am

just saying.

those seem to be the only additions, and it looks like the 2x00 series may get phased out. just so their boxes won't look so ridiculous next to those nVidia ones, it seems.