Sub $100 Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 3600 and 3400 Series

Final Words

We wish we could have had hardware available for this launch. We always have to work a little harder to get our hands on lower end and value products, as companies would rather people all see how good their fastest parts run. But we will do our best to get some numbers sooner rather than later.

This launch isn't revolutionary, as it's really just AMD bringing their 3000 series down to the lower end. Hybrid Graphics could be an interesting feature, but we'll have to test it before we can find out if it's more marketing than magic.

Our desire to see ever increasing performance in high volume graphics markets generally exceeds what we are offered, and even though there is competition between NVIDIA and AMD, neither company wants to create too large a gap between their low end add-in cards and integrated graphics. But no matter what we get, at least we will see some sort of performance improvement over what is currently on the market.

Stay tuned, as the next few weeks promise some interesting developments. We'll be getting together some data on these low end AMD parts as well as some coverage of higher end hardware.