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Officials for AMD's graphics business unit said that customers can expect custom-design ATi Radeon HD 6850-based graphics cards starting from the first days of sales. Apparently, a number of manufacturers can already initiate sales of more advanced or less expensive add-in-cards featuring the latest code-named Barts processor for performance-mainstream market. The recommended price of the Radeon HD 6850 is $179, but given the recent price-drops by nVidia it is highly likely that manufacturers of actual graphics cards will try to decrease pricing of their HD 6850 models to lower points to stay competitive. The new Radeon HD 6800-series graphics cards is supported by a dozen add-in-board companies, including Asustek Computer, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, Gigabyte, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), MSI, PowerColor, Sapphire Technology, VisionTek and XFX.

Izvor: X-Bit Labs

Ni ove početne cijene od ~1.500 kn nisu loše za (Sapphire) HD 6850, a za iste ili slične novce (još uvijek) idu GTX 460 1GB modeli.