Radeon X1800 XT not what i expected

[harrisdurrani]

We all know that the new Radeon X1800 XT is coming out really soon but from what the benchmarks show it still doesnt quiet beat the Geforce 7800 GTX.. i would like to know what you people think cause ati clearly wasted these 5 months trying to catch up with the Geforce 7800 gtx instead they could have made a much better product, which means by now i'd say their no. 2.
I gotta admit though that the X1800 XT uses 16 pipelines compared to GTX's 24 and some how manages to get better benchmarks in some games. The only way this card is going to be a success is that the price range should be about 350 to 450 cause the last 7800 GTX i saw was for 460 US dollers.
What do you guys think

 

[DonNagual]

A pretty good article here:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20051006/index.html

 

[harrisdurrani]

hmm good Article but they better reduce the price of the 1800 xt cause no one will buy it .. cause you can get a 7800 gtx for 450 bucks