2900XT or 640GTS?

[easyrider]

Well if you got all those rigs lets see hd2900xt vs gts on them and if ya
already done the tests sry if i missed them.

I'm not doing them again.

The X2900 is gone along with the 8800.

Its summer and I dont game.


Read my "Its a bit boring now don't you think thread"

Here

 

[TheRealDeal]

TBH it ain't gone its just started and thats why i hate all this crap talk
as from past experience ati driver team deliver the goods and i think they
will this time could be wrong but i would say its a good bet they will do the
same again.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

The Better card is the 8800 GTS


Speed
power usage
noise
heat

ATI have screwed this release up.

Be smart and get the better 8800

I thought you normally base your cards on 3D Mark scores?, the HD2900XT absoloutly trounces the GTS/GTX in 3D Mark

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Rubbish

I don't need a thug to educate me...

Easy, your no better than he Is, we are all equal here. That is one of the most absurd statement's I've heard in a long time here. Wind your neck in son.

 

[easyrider]

I thought you normally base your cards on 3D Mark scores?, the HD2900XT absoloutly trounces the GTS/GTX in 3D Mark

That changed when I got the same score with my overclocked 320 MB 8800 and My GTX

 

[easyrider]

Easy, your not better than he Is, we are all equal here. That is one of the most absurd statement's I've heard in a long time here. Wind your neck in son.

Wind yours in.

And start posting facts and valid clocks

 

[TheRealDeal]

TBH easy those posts made you look very arrogant a retraction would be your best bet.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

TBH easy those posts made you look very arrogant a retraction would be your best bet.

Nah you'll get used to him and learn to love him somehow . Easy you got some compare links to that 320 GTS score

 

[TheRealDeal]

You probably right just wish there was facts to back those statements up.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

You probably right just wish there was facts to back those statements up.

*Wait's for Easy to post compare link

 

[TheRealDeal]

Not sure what hes saying think he means he got a gts to oc to the same
score as a gtx. Tbh dosen't mean a thing as a gtx then can oc much higher
and so can the hd2900xt in 3dmark so his logic if thats what he means is
pretty much flawed.

 

[easyrider]

Not sure what hes saying think he means he got a gts to oc to the same
score as a gtx. Tbh dosen't mean a thing as a gtx then can oc much higher
and so can the hd2900xt in 3dmark so his logic if thats what he means is
pretty much flawed.

Thanks


You have completely missed the point.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Instead of that meanless post enlighten me then.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Thanks


You have completely missed the point.

Easy my old man, your the one with the fact's let's see that compare link my old chum .

 

[willhub]

Will, this 2900 is yours whenever you want to swap your GTS, I know the performance of both cards, if you really like this card for whatever reason whether its future proofing, ATI driver support or CCC design, Vista or whatever
you know where I am.

Aye I am still thinking about it, I am amazed I managed to sleep last night , I think the drivers for the HD2900XT next week should determin if I want it.

There was a review are [H]forums or there website and the HD2900XT was around a couple of frames lower than the GTS 320/640.

Anyway, yea I would like Easy to show some benchmarks.

I am aware that some benchmarks have been showing the HD2900XT to come close to a GTX, but in what games? I need some benchmarks here, I want to know what games its slower than the GTS in and what games its faster than a GTS and closer to a GTX in.

If TDU is faster on the HD2900XT then I'm preety much happy for the moment , but I run at 16xAA/AF, can live with 8xAA/AF, no lower than 4x tho.

Also, if anyone would like to swap cards for a week (HD 2900XT for a 8800GTS ACS3 KO 640mb) I would love to do that, hopefully someone is in the similar position as me, is the 2900 better or worse than the GTS? then we could find out properly.

 

[MaXXeH]

1 x ASUS P5W DH Deluxe SKT 775 dual-core Core2Duo Conroe ready Crossfire 8channel audio ATX 113951 Pick in Progress Track £90.28 £90.28

1 x OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory CL4 Unbuffered ATI Certfified Dual Channel Kit 118298 Pick in Progress Track £64.45 £64.45

1 x Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Mid Tower Case 128045 Ship Date: 18/06/2007 £63.99 £63.99

1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13Ghz) Socket 775 FSB1066 4MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor 126906 Pick in Progress Track £100.09 £100.09

1 x Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI VIVO PCI-E Graphics card 127550 Pick in Progress Track £208.02 £208.

This is what i orderd in the end! changed it to a 2900xt taking a gamble!

 

[the_champ_101]

Aye I am still thinking about it, I am amazed I managed to sleep last night , I think the drivers for the HD2900XT next week should determin if I want it.

There was a review are [H]forums or there website and the HD2900XT was around a couple of frames lower than the GTS 320/640.

Anyway, yea I would like Easy to show some benchmarks.

I am aware that some benchmarks have been showing the HD2900XT to come close to a GTX, but in what games? I need some benchmarks here, I want to know what games its slower than the GTS in and what games its faster than a GTS and closer to a GTX in.

If TDU is faster on the HD2900XT then I'm preety much happy for the moment , but I run at 16xAA/AF, can live with 8xAA/AF, no lower than 4x tho.

Also, if anyone would like to swap cards for a week (HD 2900XT for a 8800GTS ACS3 KO 640mb) I would love to do that, hopefully someone is in the similar position as me, is the 2900 better or worse than the GTS? then we could find out properly.

hey if the drivers are that good, I'd be a fool not to keep it but somehow I can't see a huge improvement tbh, I will say that the X2900XT is better than the GTS on TDU by about 10%, so you should be happy there but as you saw
NFS Carbon was similar but on source engine games the GTS trounces the 2900 at full settings.

 

[willhub]

1 x ASUS P5W DH Deluxe SKT 775 dual-core Core2Duo Conroe ready Crossfire 8channel audio ATX 113951 Pick in Progress Track £90.28 £90.28

1 x OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory CL4 Unbuffered ATI Certfified Dual Channel Kit 118298 Pick in Progress Track £64.45 £64.45

1 x Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Mid Tower Case 128045 Ship Date: 18/06/2007 £63.99 £63.99

1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13Ghz) Socket 775 FSB1066 4MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor 126906 Pick in Progress Track £100.09 £100.09

1 x Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI VIVO PCI-E Graphics card 127550 Pick in Progress Track £208.02 £208.

This is what i orderd in the end! changed it to a 2900xt taking a gamble!

When you get it all do tell us your results

Also if anyone on the forum has a HD2900XT in a rig with similar CPU (Athlon 64 3700+ single core ' 2.8ghz) to mine, it would be nice if you could post you game experiences and performance.

In July I will be upgrading to a quad core (Q6600), 2gb ram and one of the P5NESLi mobos, so I hope my performance will be good then aswell. If I have enough cash at the time I might even buy an 8800GTS 640mb for very cheap for my amd 64 rig if I have a HD2900XT but then.

Its my birthday today and I was hoping by my birthday I would be sitting here with a brand new upgrade , but I'm still with my retro single core athlong setup

hey if the drivers are that good, I'd be a fool not to keep it but somehow I can't see a huge improvement tbh, I will say that the X2900XT is better than the GTS on TDU by about 10%, so you should be happy there but as you saw
NFS Carbon was similar but on source engine games the GTS trounces the 2900 at full settings.

Can we swap for a week? Then if I like the HD2900XT we dont need to swap back?

 

[the_champ_101]

Nah, just do a permanent swap, I know the performance of each card.

 

[willhub]

Nah, just do a permanent swap, I know the performance of each card.

Come onto MSN Plz