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ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB

April 28th, 2004 | by Ian Bell

Introduction

Unless you're just hearing about the ATI Radeon 9800XT for the first time now, you probably know that this video card is the current reigning champion of graphics processors. However, this is about to change.

Both ATI and NVIDIA have recently announced video cards with specs that will blow away the performance of the Radeon 9800XT and battle for the crown of the graphics card king. While these new graphics cards will retail at or around $400 and $500, prices for the older generation of cards will go down. The Radeon 9800XT is still at or above $400, but in a few weeks you'll see that price start to plummet. If you're not ready at that time to splurge on a $500 video card, the 9800XT might turn out to be a good bargain.