[H]ardNews 3rd Edition

ATI and NVIDIA Editorial:

The Tech-Report has a very good editorial online today that deal with the ongoing ATi vs. NVIDIA issues. With NVIDIA stumbling and bumbling and ATi hitting their mark like a seasoned veteran, what is there to discuss? Apparently, a lot.

NVIDIA'S GEFORCE FX delays have left a lot of graphics card manufacturers in a bit of a bind. A short supply of GeForce FX 5800 Ultras has forced manufacturers to offer these cards as special edition products in only limited quantities, if they're even offering Ultras at all. Manufacturers will, of course, have non-Ultra GeForce FX products, the first of which should trickle onto the market in early March. Unfortunately, it looks like those cards could be too little, too late in the face of ATI's full court press of Radeon 9500, 9700, and upcoming R350-based products, and there's not much that NVIDIA's graphics card partners can do about it. Or is there?