ATI 2900GT

[Sinny]

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Radeon_HD_2900_GT_Launch_on_Oct_8th_for_US$_199/5297.html

AMD plans to launch Radeon HD 2900 GT on October 8th at US$199 while HD 2900 Pro continues to be in limited supply at US$249. The existence of these 2 cards are just to get rid of the R600 stock that didn't attained XT speeds before RV670 comes along in November. However, HD 2900 XT, GT and Pro will reach EOL by end of October so the lifespan of the two new cards is really short. Radeon HD 2900GT will sport only 240 stream processors instead of 320 and a 256-bit memory interface instead of 512-bit for the 2900 Pro. HD 2900 GT card uses 256MB of GDDR3 memories while 2900 Pro card is able to use 512MB to 1GB of GDDR3/4 memories. Both cards are clocked at 600MHz core and 1.6GHz for the memories.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

hmm, a card to compete with the 8600gts from the looks of it.

 

[Sinny]

hmm, a card to compete with the 8600gts from the looks of it.

probably explains why the pro got a 512bit interface when was rumored to get 256bit.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Most importantly I think ATi need to get their act togeather and sort out the **** poor dx10 support currently.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Most importantly I think ATi need to get their act togeather and sort out the **** poor dx10 support currently.

I agree, they seem to be lobbing cards out in their droves with no decent drivers, hmmm, im sure that sounds familiar.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Odd wasnt aware that using **** was classed as bad languange.. cheers for the warning lol.

 

[Gibbo]

hmm, a card to compete with the 8600gts from the looks of it.

Hi there

Well from looking at the specs the 2900 GT should easily beat the 8600 GTS, especially at high resolution and with ease. Its got a lot more stream processors and most importantly its got a 256-bit interface compared to the 8600GTS 128-Bit.

Its most likely the 2900 GT will compete with NVIDIA's forthcoming 8700 GTS card.

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Certainly looks like the card has the potential to do well, specially at the rumoured prices, but ATi really could do with sorting out driver support for the HD2x00 range.

Imho they should seperate drivers for the x1x00 and hd2x00 range. A majority of the pre-2x00 user base are happy with drivers, specially dx9, their are a few bugs that require sorting out, more importantly though by seperating the drivers, it would allow ATi to put 100% into getting dx10 working flawlessly and optimising the drivers for one range of cards only, rather than the current 3-4 generations of cards.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

However, HD 2900 XT, GT and Pro will reach EOL by end of October

Wow end of line after only 6 month's , shortest lifespan of a GFX card ever. ATi must really regret the R600 .

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Nah x1800 was shorter than that, at only 2 months.

2900 GT will be even shorter, at about 3x weeks

 

[manic111]

Hmm, for a little over £100 that sounds like a decent buy...

 

[von Pluring]

Why do you think the 1950Pro is so cheap all of a sudden?

 

[thefishdude]

yep i agree will be keeping an eye out on the ne pros and gts near xmas time

 

[Cyber-Mav]

Hi there

Well from looking at the specs the 2900 GT should easily beat the 8600 GTS, especially at high resolution and with ease. Its got a lot more stream processors and most importantly its got a 256-bit interface compared to the 8600GTS 128-Bit.

but going by your logic of more stream processors and more memory bandwidth = faster card, would make the 2900 far quicker than the GTX.

only final benches will set things straight i guess.

 

[Scougar]

Just because they use the same name doesn't make the 320 vs 96 stream processors directly comparable. I think due to the way ATI implemented the processors it is done in quads or something like that, so you have to divide by 4. This gives you 96 vs 80 which goes someway to explaining why it fairs so badly against the GTX with it's 128 SP's.

Matthew