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2900xt owners\benchmarks thread

Looks like it just fits in and no more, making decent contact on the core.

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Squakingcow said:
Yeah, but you do have a 4.3ghz C2D, while his 'only' runs at 3.4ghz, so the scores on your setup may be higher due to that. But 1 card beating 2 cards isn't bad (especially as Xfire scales much better in 3dmark than in real games).
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True, I wasn't dissing the score really.. just saying it isn't as big a jump as I would hope over obsoleted tech like the X19x0s.

I didn't notice any real score change in 3DMark06 going from 3.6Ghz to 4.3Ghz, in fact the other thing that changed was the CPU score (obviously). Xfire X1900s are GPU-limited at around 3.6Ghz on a C2D imo, unless you start getting into the realm of watercooling them, etc.

What are the power requirements like for this card compared to 2 x X19x0s? I got the gist from several reviews that it was pretty demanding, certainly "worse" than the GTS/GTX in power usage.
 
Tom|Nbk said:
And you have a CPU clocked around 1Ghz more than mine, makes sense don't you think.

This is my Crossfire score from when i had X-Fire 1900's, same specs


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So why the change? Are you happy having gone from Xfire X1900s to this new card when you've got less than 1k points increase in score?

Again, not trolling - it just seems like an odd decision unless you suddenly decided one day that you didn't like having 2 cards in your case (even though your motherboard, etc supported it).

(I realise 3DMark isn't the be-all-and-end-all of games, but it's a fair representation of relative graphics power)
 
Power consumption is of course better than two cards in crossfire, a one card solution also will mean less noise and heat in the system as well. To pull in the results the 2900 is in 3DMark is very impressive and to say its not is rather stupid considering its pulling in nearly double the scores of a single x1950xt and beating or just short of two x1900's in crossfire.

All these results will mean squat if we don't see some dramatic fps improvement soon, in the real game world.




http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/HD_2900_XT/13
 
Well that's a decent wattage (~100W less in comparison to two cards) at least. Don't know what that would work out in terms of savings on a yearly electricity bill, but hey..

I'd be interested to see how overclockable these are, and whether they top out at about the same CPU speed as the X1900s do in my system.
 
Biglunn said:
Just done a 3DMark2006 benchmark after renaming a file to get it to work

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3dmark-1.jpg


Seems pretty good to me! :)
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Would you be able to post a compare link to that as you've got an almost identical system to including the overclock on the CPU and I'd like to see how it stacks up.

Thanks

Steve
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
The 2900XT has the same problem that the 8800 Series used to have with fog in Source games, it's to do with the AA and their style of HDR etc. Maybe they should ask Nvidia for the fix. :p
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Thought it was something along those lines seeing as nvidia had similar issues and theyre both dx10 boards. :(
 
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