According to various sources around the net the ATI HD 3800 is set to come out on November 15th and it appears that it is structured for DirectX 10.1. There is still some secrecy about the upcoming cards in the 3800 series, but we do know they will be based on the RV670 graphics processor and are shrunk to the 55nm process. This will give us many more chips per die, so hopefully production (and consumer) costs will be much lower than previous cards. The real market that AMD/ATI are shooting for is the mid-range which generally gives us 75% of the performance with only 50% of the price of the top-end cards (TomsHardware).

Speculation is that the 3800 cards will be priced between $150 and $250 based on clock speed and memory configurations, which will be a nice option for many of us that cannot drop $400+ on a video card. It will be interesting to see how this card will stack up against the soon-to-be released nVidia 8800GT in respect to most bang for your buck. Interestingly enough, the 8800GT does not support 10.1, so ATI is beating nVidia to the punch this round. Now it will just be a matter of waiting for games to catch up to the new DirectX standard.

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