2900xt owners\benchmarks thread

Gerard · 25 May 2007 at 00:46

Sir Random said:
Either the Vista drivers are really bad, or there's something wrong there.

I just ran the FEAR test at 1920x1200, max detail, high quality, 4xAA/16xAF, on my GTX at stock (575/1800) on XP

Average 86, Min 44, Max 209

I know the GTX is a bit faster than a GTS640, but my scores are double your o'clocked score.

Must be the vista driver, even that nvidia human head demo i get like 6 fps, in xp its more like 22 or so.

fornowagain · 28 May 2007 at 18:47

Link

65nm R600 is a new, redesigned core
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Monday, 28 May 2007

Confirmed

Sources close to the company have confirmed the existence of the 65 nanometre R600 core but they could not confirm its R670 or R650 codenames.

The sources confirmed that 65 nanometre R600 is not just a shrinked chip, it is a redesigned core scheduled for introduction in Q3.

A new core should improve the flaws in R600 designed and our sources confimed this original story that you can check here .

LoadsaMoney · 28 May 2007 at 19:06

The proper R600 confirmed then.

Tom|Nbk · 28 May 2007 at 19:11

LoadsaMoney said:
The proper R600 confirmed then.

Hardly it's a Fudzilla article I thought you'd at least know this by now.

Sir Random · 28 May 2007 at 20:15

Tom|Nbk said:
Hardly it's a Fudzilla article I thought you'd at least know this by now.

I don't know why people are so dismissive of fudzilla, his sources are usually proven right in the end.

I'm not at all surprised that the new r600 will be a revised core, as the AA problem really needs to be fixed at core level. If the current R600 had MSAA, it would beat the 8800GTX.

Squakingcow · 28 May 2007 at 20:26

Sir Random said:
I don't know why people are so dismissive of fudzilla, his sources are usually proven right in the end.

I'm not at all surprised that the new r600 will be a revised core, as the AA problem really needs to be fixed at core level. If the current R600 had MSAA, it would beat the 8800GTX.

*cough*100*cr600&750psu*cough* (on the box it says it needs a 500w)

What type off aa does Quake 4 use, because it beats the gtx with aa on that :confused:

rippling · 28 May 2007 at 20:29

i dont see it myself , it would cost to much money to "redesign" area of the r600 core , and even if they have i cant see it in september!

Maybe ATI will prove me wrong , but come on the r600 is a very advanced chip , but it hasnt even got any drivers yet that are not beta! and eveyone is dissing it because the aa doesnt work , and oh it cant beat the gtx , on paper the r600 should wallop the gtx , and i believe in 3dmark 06 it does? , just wait and see what the drivers bring

rippling · 28 May 2007 at 20:30

Squakingcow said:
*cough*100*cr600&750psu*cough* (on the box it says it needs a 500w)

What type off aa does Quake 4 use, because it beats the gtx with aa on that

I think you might find that it could beat the gtx with a lot of new games comming out.........

Sir Random · 28 May 2007 at 20:52

Squakingcow said:
*cough*100*cr600&750psu*cough* (on the box it says it needs a 500w)

What type off aa does Quake 4 use, because it beats the gtx with aa on that

On the HIS HD2900XT box, it says it needs a 750w

IceShock · 28 May 2007 at 21:39

Sir Random said:
On the HIS HD2900XT box, it says it needs a 750w

i was about to say haha rubbish...

but i just looked on my box and it says a 750W or better :eek:

well my hyper type R works fine only 580W had no problems yet

Squakingcow · 28 May 2007 at 21:41

I just looked on my powercolor box and it says 500w psu

Cyber-Mav · 28 May 2007 at 21:47

Squakingcow said:
I just looked on my powercolor box and it says 500w psu

guess they do have to cater for qtecs.

expect a 750w qtec to come out sometime soon.

evilcrowuk · 28 May 2007 at 22:34

Has anyone noticed in the RC7 drivers you cant disable the AA filter, it always on even if you have AA disabled in the CCC, peps have reported not as good performance with these drivers, that's probably the reason. Though i don't really know if it gives better game quality set like that.

Tom|Nbk · 28 May 2007 at 22:34

Sir Random said:
I don't know why people are so dismissive of fudzilla, his sources are usually proven right in the end.

I'm not at all surprised that the new r600 will be a revised core, as the AA problem really needs to be fixed at core level. If the current R600 had MSAA, it would beat the 8800GTX.

It can do MSAA :confused:

and is beating the GTX/GTS more and more in every new driver revision, expect it to be beating both cards in around two months time.

Squakingcow · 28 May 2007 at 22:37

Tom|Nbk said:
It can do MSAA and is beating the GTX/GTS more and more in every new driver revision, expect it to be beating both cards in around two months time.

So are these drivers (the leaked RC7's) anything like as good as the one you have under NDA? (cause these ones do naff all for my cards performance).

tereu5 · 28 May 2007 at 23:24

rippling said:
I think you might find that it could beat the gtx with a lot of new games comming out.........

but this is speculation i think,
it may be that some games will prefer ATI and some nVidia (in DX10)

Tom|Nbk · 28 May 2007 at 23:26

Squakingcow said:
So are these drivers (the leaked RC7's) anything like as good as the one you have under NDA? (cause these ones do naff all for my cards performance).

I only have the RC7's atm wait and see what the Finals can do this week.

tereu5 · 28 May 2007 at 23:30

Tom|Nbk said:
I only have the RC7's atm wait and see what the Finals can do this week.

i hope it will be this week ....i still didn't decide GTS or 2900xt ....still want 2900 to be better and I w8 :>

Squakingcow · 28 May 2007 at 23:43

Tom|Nbk said:
I only have the RC7's atm wait and see what the Finals can do this week.

Hmmmm

I hope they fix the aa issues/add EATM in the drivers. If not we'll just have to wait until the 7.6's....

xtr3eme · 29 May 2007 at 00:13

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