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Forget About Ati's R600 Its A Flop

AllanC

AllanC

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ATI’s R600 Fails High-End Test
We all had many expectations and hopes toward ATI’s R600, and it was very difficult to believe to DailyTech’s benchmark. According to Fudzilla, it seems that ATI has confirmed that the R600 won’t be able to compete with Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTX, and surely won’t be able to bother Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce 8800 Ultra as well. The Radeon HD 2900 XT would be a cheaper alternative for Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTS - nothing more. According to Overclockers.com, the press is surely unhappy about AMD: “You fly over 150 people to Northern Africa just to tell them that your new video cards are going to suck?”.

We can easily understand the frustration and disappointment from ATI’s R600. I’m quite sure that the press is really unhappy about flying to Tunisia just to hear it, and to see DailyTech gets all the exclusives, due to the cursed NDA. Well, It seems that you don’t have to wait for the final reviews anymore, and don’t expect to any miracles. We can now admit that ATI’s R600 is a failure due to the long delays and unable to compete with Nvidia’s high-end offerings. On the other hand, R600 will offer better alternatives to 8800 GTS and the 8600 series. Congratulations Nvidia.

Source:
http://www.ngohq.com/news/10605-ati-s-r600-fails-high-end-test.html

Yesterday

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX Benchmarked @ DailyTech
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX video cards feature 1GB of GDDR4 video memory, besting the GeForce 8800 GTX’s 768MB of GDDR3 video memory. GPU manufacturers often wait to set the exact clock frequencies of bins until just weeks before launch. Our Radeon HD 2900 XTX sample was released to board partners in the second week of April, features memory clocked at 2.02 GHz and a core clock of 750 MHz.



Physically, the Radeon HD 2900 XTX core is identical to the Radeon HD 2900 XT core. Both feature 320 stream processors, but the XTX differs by bringing GDDR4 to the package. Despite the reference clock speed differences, DailyTech managed to push the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT up to 845 MHz core and 1.99 GHz memory. Unlike the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT benchmarked yesterday, the HD 2900 XTX is a 12-inch card geared specifically towards OEMs and system integrators.

Source:
http://www.ngohq.com/news/10572-ati-radeon-hd-2900-xtx-benchmarked-dailytech.html

Benchmarks:
http://www.dailytech.com/ATI+Radeon+HD+2900+XTX+Doomed+from+the+Start/article7052.htm
 
Still think theres some nvidia properganda about all these tests thats suposably been done on the new ati cards.

Regardless. Ati have more features if not speed. So if it fails in speeds (doubtful i still think) then it will win in extra features that nvidia dont have.
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Still think theres some nvidia properganda about all these tests thats suposably been done on the new ati cards.

Regardless. Ati have more features if not speed. So if it fails in speeds (doubtful i still think) then it will win in extra features that nvidia dont have.
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what like?
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Like the onboard soundcard thing i heard about in another thread, and the true HD sound compliant stuff HDMI or somit.
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oh that. its a nice feature to have, but at the moment it isnt crucial as you can achieve the same thing with a vga port and analogue sound outputs. thinking about it ive not seen an r600 yet with a hdmi port at all :confused:

Dravic said:
Oh noes, I sense another fanboi fight. :(
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eh?
 
SkeeterPSA said:
Lol, i aint no fanboy. I am not a fan of my x1950pro i have as i expected better performance etc.
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I wasn't meaning you in particular, just that these kind of threads always seem to degenerate into a Nvidia v ATI slanging match. :p
 
From the same link, this has been added:

Update:
During the weekend, I’ve heard from two reputable sources that ATI’s Radeon HD 2900 XTX has been totally cancelled, and we should expect something only at Q3, 2007.


I know some people are still refusing to believe any of these reports/benchmarks, but surely the lack of any rebuttal from AMD/ATi speaks for itself?
 
Sir Random said:
I know some people are still refusing to believe any of these reports/benchmarks, but surely the lack of any rebuttal from AMD/ATi speaks for itself?
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Um I dunno, they'd spend an awful lot of time rebutting the constant tide of FUD. I mean, they could release some info before hand sure, but wouldn't that just reduce the impact of a launch?
 
AllanC said:
the press is surely unhappy about AMD:“You fly over 150 people to Northern Africa just to tell them that your new video cards are going to suck?”
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:rolleyes:
If this was the truth am sure the press would love it,,,,As it would make very big news...
 
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Erm .. its a report on the unsubstantiated benchmarks :rolleyes:

And that quote was taken entirley out of contect, firstly it was from these forums, nothing to to with OcUK itself, and secondly it was part of a sentence rebuking such claims.

OcUK should get them to retract it.

R600 may be a flop, it may not be, but until the NDA is lifted and we get several proper reviews we don't know.

There is more FUD going around this launch than anything I have known, its crazy.
 
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Vogon said:
Erm .. its a report on the unsubstantiated benchmarks :rolleyes:

R600 may be a flop, it may not be, but until the NDA is lifted and we get several proper reviews we don't know.
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Hopefully 2moro :D .
 
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