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2900xt owners\benchmarks thread

xtr3eme said:
I think we will be waiting till the 7.6's TBH as everyone is expecting far too much from the 1st official driver.
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This is crazy.

You wait 6 months for the card, then wait another month for drivers, and now you're saying wait even longer for more drivers...

Have you not seen ATi's new advertising slogan?

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Sir Random said:
This is crazy.

You wait 6 months for the card, then wait another month for drivers, and now you're saying wait even longer for more drivers...

Have you not seen ATi's new advertising slogan?

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I would not use that argument when looking at Nvidia`s Driver history.
Ati drivers are monthly & it just happened that the cards release was at a time that the next driver date was some time off.
You make it sound like they have skipped or missed or dropped driver release.
 
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Sir Random said:
This is crazy.

You wait 6 months for the card, then wait another month for drivers, and now you're saying wait even longer for more drivers...

Have you not seen ATi's new advertising slogan?

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I wasnt waiting for R600...I just got one. And yeah nvidia were dissgraceful at launch with there cards as i got a 8800GTX on release..and the were still bad months after thats why i downgraded to a GTS then got the 2900XT.
 
Yeah Nvidia done it the other way around, release a card then wait 6 months before releasing drivers, still they coming now, poor ***** have no option now, they must be well gutted they gota do the drivers as well now . :D

7.5's will definately be relesed this week you can guarantee it, they only have 3 days left to release (including today) as they release a set every month.
 
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Final8y said:
I would not use that argument when looking at Nvidia`s Driver history.
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Yeah, NV did the same thing with the FX5800, so I bought a 9800.

The point is, you should buy a card for how it performs now, and not how you hope it might perform at some time in the future. If people think the 2900 will improve drastically with drivers, then they should wait for those drivers before buying.

Have AMD/ATi ever actually claimed that AA/AF performance will improve with new drivers?
 
Sir Random said:
Yeah, NV did the same thing with the FX5800, so I bought a 9800.

The point is, you should buy a card for how it performs now, and not how you hope it might perform at some time in the future. If people think the 2900 will improve drastically with drivers, then they should wait for those drivers before buying.

Have AMD/ATi ever actually claimed that AA/AF performance will improve with new drivers?
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Do Nvidia or ATI ever claim that there cards will improve with drivers ?
 
Sir Random said:
Yeah, NV did the same thing with the FX5800, so I bought a 9800.

The point is, you should buy a card for how it performs now, and not how you hope it might perform at some time in the future. If people think the 2900 will improve drastically with drivers, then they should wait for those drivers before buying.

Have AMD/ATi ever actually claimed that AA/AF performance will improve with new drivers?
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You can only judge that by the history of ati.
Have they had this problem before & promised to fix it & failed.
And once again your argument is flawed because loads bought the Nvidia 8800 cards with drivers that were in a much worse state than the ati ones.
 
xtr3eme said:
Do Nvidia or ATI ever claim that there cards will improve with drivers ?
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You can usually expect between 15-20% improvement with driver releases over the life of the card.

Can anyone tell if IQ is suffering with performance increases on the 2900XT?

Really tempted to have a play with one of these. Anyone managed to fit a waterblock yet?
 
I agree with Sir Random, regardless of whether or not a company claims performance will improve over time; I would never buy a card with blind hope that "it will get better over time".

The X2900 XT is a decent card, but I'm becoming quite baffled by the constant stream of "it's going to get better with drivers!" I see on so many forums. I mean, when has a card ever really gained a boost of more than a few percent due to drivers? I have never owned a card that benefitted significantly performance wise due to drivers, it's only ever been bug fixes and a couple of frames here and there.
 
The Asgard said:
You can usually expect between 15-20% improvement with driver releases over the life of the card.

Can anyone tell if IQ is suffering with performance increases on the 2900XT?

Really tempted to have a play with one of these. Anyone managed to fit a waterblock yet?
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The image quality has got a little better in drivers and i have seen a good few maze4 waterblocks fitted. :D
 
MystaEB said:
I agree with Sir Random, regardless of whether or not a company claims performance will improve over time; I would never buy a card with blind hope that "it will get better over time".

The X2900 XT is a decent card, but I'm becoming quite baffled by the constant stream of "it's going to get better with drivers!" I see on so many forums. I mean, when has a card ever really gained a boost of more than a few percent due to drivers? I have never owned a card that benefitted significantly performance wise due to drivers, it's only ever been bug fixes and a couple of frames here and there.
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I don't think its about overall performance with drivers that's people are hoping for but that AA issue & certain game compatibility problems that need addressing as the card is fast enough.
 
Final8y said:
Have they had this problem before & promised to fix it & failed.
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That's just it, they say there's NO problem, and the cards are working as intended, just aimed at future games.

Anyway, I'm not arguing for/against anything, I'm just relaying some facts. I don't want to get dragged into an AMD vs NV discussion.
 
Link
1GB GDDR4 Radeon HD 2900XT next month

Published: 30th May 2007 @ 3:40 AM
Author: Lars-Göran Nilsson

Information has reached us that the 1GB GDDR4 version of the Radeon HD 2900XT is going to be available from next month. We don’t have a lot of details at this moment, but at least we can tell you that these cards aren’t vapour ware. The other good news is that the 1GB GDDR4 version will be a 9-inch card, not the 12.4-inch cards as earlier rumours speculated on. However, the 12.4-inch cards are still likely to end up in various systems from the large system integrators, such as Dell, HP and Fujitsu-Siemens. There is still no word if the XTX cards will appear or not, but maybe these new 1GB GDDR4 cards will be clocked higher than the current crop of HD 2900XT cards. We’ll bring you more info as we have it.
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I bet they will add an X on th end to say its 1gig and special... come buy my tag ;)

But I bet things look better once the HD2950 series arrives, by then ATI will have some killer drivers and it will be more matured... whack on a shrinkdie/higher clocks and ATI are sorted.
 
1 gig or not, until they sort the AA problem out (which it appears they have no intention of doing) it wont be an attractive option for me.
If they don't change the hardware to support current AA methods without the current major performance hits, nor will the 2950's :(
Lets hope they see the error of their ways and the 2950 fixes it all.
 
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