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2900 pro GDDR4 benches

is that the 1gb ram version ?? if so thin most peopel will say know, the 1gb ram offers only a very small fps improvemnet and is only really needed if you runnning crazy resolutions
 
hillbilly2 said:
Yeh the 1gb version,will it be more future proof?
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My crystal ball is out of batteries.....

I suppose you need to look at the 256Mb/512Mb market and look how long it's taken for people to need 512Mb over 256Mb. A good few years I would suspect so therefore your 1Gb card might be sound on the memory front for the next 3-4 years but are you honestly not going to to change the card before then due to lack of horsepoer, no supoort for shader 4, directx 11 etc?
 
Greebo said:
My crystal ball is out of batteries.....

I suppose you need to look at the 256Mb/512Mb market and look how long it's taken for people to need 512Mb over 256Mb. A good few years I would suspect so therefore your 1Gb card might be sound on the memory front for the next 3-4 years but are you honestly not going to to change the card before then due to lack of horsepoer, no supoort for shader 4, directx 11 etc?
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Good point, thanks for the help
 
Greebo said:
My crystal ball is out of batteries.....

I suppose you need to look at the 256Mb/512Mb market and look how long it's taken for people to need 512Mb over 256Mb. A good few years I would suspect so therefore your 1Gb card might be sound on the memory front for the next 3-4 years but are you honestly not going to to change the card before then due to lack of horsepoer, no supoort for shader 4, directx 11 etc?
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I dont disagree with you. but just so you know, DX10 is Shader Model 4.0.
 
Greebo said:
Okay, I dropped a boobie but you got my general gist right? I should have really said shader model 5.0 ;)
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yes... but dx 11 won't be out yet it'll be very long time.... dx 10.1 is released early next year, but no games will use it till 8 or 9 months after dx10.1 as been released...
 
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gareth170 said:
yes... but dx 11 won't be out yet it'll be very long time.... dx 10.1 is released early next year, but no games will use it till 8 or 9 months after dx10.1 as been released...
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I was looking at the prospect of keeping the card for 3 - 4 years which is probably when the 1Gb memory will eventaully become a requirement. By then we will have directx 11 and maybe even a different operating system.

So all i'm saying unless it's costs you nothing I can't see the point in the extra memory and it won't add to it's lifespan as there will be other reasons you will have swapped it out by then.

I've just got rid of 256Mb card after 4 years not cause of memory problems but purely cause of lack of shader 3 support.
 
i would wait till november, the 2950pro is looking very good, its basicly like a 2900 but some different's like 55mm die, dx10.1, 256bit memory but i can't see that being a problem, it'll be cheaper and it should run as fast as the 2900....
 
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Isn't there some speculation whether or not it's only going to have 240 Stream Processors though? If it is, I can only seeing it having severely crippled performance compared to a 2900pro/xt.
 
Scougar said:
Isn't there some speculation whether or not it's only going to have 240 Stream Processors though? If it is, I can only seeing it having severely crippled performance compared to a 2900pro/xt.
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at first i thought the 2950pro will have 240 Stream Processors but articles say it'll have 320 Stream Processors.

http://www.legitreviews.com/news/3974/

The Radeon HD 2950PRO will continue to adopt the R600 chip structure. It will support DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.0, PCI Express 2.0, UVD and CrossFire technology. The chip also features built-in HDMI, HDCP and 320 stream processors per GPU. The Radeon HD 2950PRO will come in two versions, Gladiator and Revival, with Gladiator adopting 512MB GDDR4 graphics memory, a GPU frequency of 825MHz and a memory frequency of 2.4GHz. Revival will adopt 256/512MB GDDR3 graphics memory, a GPU frequency of 750MHz and a memory frequency of 1.8GHz.
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2950x is simply a die shrink to save ATI money in the manufacturing process. It shoudl also reduce power requirements but die shrinking alone will not guarentee higher clock speed potential.
 
Gladiator sounds expensive to me, especially with them using GDDR4 instead of GDDR3. (EDIT: Given the specs, not just that the name 'sounds' expensive lol)

Matthew
 
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