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HD2900XT 1GB on sale now!!

Is their any point of getting this, surely games like crysis/bioshock will benefit from from the extra memory for loading textures, then again im sure the 8800gtx will be sufficient amount anyway, im still pointing between the 2900 1gb and 8800gtx.
 
so im guessing this is around the performance of a 8800gtx seen as its almost the same price? Or is the same performance as a 2900xt standard but with more memory
 
Jono8 said:
so im guessing this is around the performance of a 8800gtx seen as its almost the same price? Or is the same performance as a 2900xt standard but with more memory
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Should be around the same speed as the 512mb version, just slightly faster.
 
lay-z-boy said:
Should be around the same speed as the 512mb version, just slightly faster.
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Oh, then surely the gtx at that price range would be a better buy? i mean 786mb to 1gb isnt going to make much of a difference for a while, at least long enough for most people serious about their hardware to buy the next best graphics card.
 
Dont you just love how the fan boys have their reviews up on OCUK site for that card already......even though they have no idea how it works....

I Quote "Blows the 8800 out of the water!"
 
gizmoy2k said:
Dont you just love how the fan boys have their reviews up on OCUK site for that card already......even though they have no idea how it works....

I Quote "Blows the 8800 out of the water!"
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I laughed at that as well. I bet you they post on the forums as well.
 
gizmoy2k said:
Dont you just love how the fan boys have their reviews up on OCUK site for that card already......even though they have no idea how it works....

I Quote "Blows the 8800 out of the water!"
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Agreed - who are these people? :confused:

Any reason to think that the 512MB 2900 XT was held back by 'only' having 512MB of memory? It could be the XTX all over again.
 
melbourne720 said:
Any reason to think that the 512MB 2900 XT was held back by 'only' having 512MB of memory? It could be the XTX all over again.
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Not really, 512MB is enough isn almost all games and overclocking the memory on 512MB cards to get more memory bandwith does not lead to a higher framerate according to someone on this forum (can't remember who he was)
 
I suppose strapping more memory to the R600 chip is cheaper and quicker than building a faster GPU (which is what's needed to get it faster than a GTX).
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

These cards generally have 0.9ns RAM or quicker. As such they are capable of hitting 850-900MHz core and 2200-2400MHz on the memory. On a 3GHz quad core, at the higher-end of that overclock a single one of these cards can achieve 14,000-15,000 3D Mark 2006 points. So they aint too slow, but not a huge improvement over the the 512MB when overclocked.
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Just a quote from Gibbo for you to see on the 1GB 2900XT in case you missed it (found imformative).

Seemingly the extra RAM is making a difference, but I guess it's more down to the raised core and ram clocks and the 0.9ns RAM. Still, looking forward to seeing some benchies for the card.
 
You wont really see any benefit in games on these over a 512MB version for a long time - and even then only if you play on some ridiculous monitor with a totally insane resolution - inwhich case most CPUs will bottleneck it
 
What about the clock speeds are they gona be the same as diamonds which are at 840mhz or they at 750mhz??
 
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