Introduction
Having an advantage in the >$200 is all well and good and does much for a company's image, but the real money is to be made in the mid-range space, with cards costing between $75 and $150.
This is why, just a couple of weeks after the launch of the high-end Cypress GPUs, AMD's now bringing its new GPU architecture to bear with the Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750, to etail at $159 and $129, respectively.
Aimed squarely at the GeForce GTX 260 and GTS 250, AMD hopes to use leaner, forward-looking designs to deliver the death-knell to NVIDIA's long-standing cards.
Click on to find out if it has suceeded.