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HD2900XT out May 2nd ?

eracer2006 said:
i think im gonna get a gtx now........ im so dissappointed.

ok i didnt need one up untill now at 1280x1024 but im about to buy an lg that has a 1650x**** native resolution and i dont think my x1950xt will be good enough ?
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wow wait its only like 2 weks away and if its a better card then you will regret it
i still dont believe any of those benchmarks
 
Tunisia

Looks like even the Tunisia event was a hash, here is a write up from a reporter and the Inq's wite up about it which is actually rather funny.

While I can't say I'd completely agree with your opinion of AMD that you expressed in the line at the airport check-in next to me, I also didn't exactly have the time of my life on the other end of Africa.
The NDA thing is a bit more than unsettling. Those of us with mere mortal status weren't presented with the NDA until after we'd already arrived in Tunis. I consider this a big no-no, as this could technically be considered coercion since they have you in a foreign country where the burden of feeding, housing, and flying you back is on them. I'm not saying they took us hostage, but I think if there's going to be an NDA presented it needs to be done before one leaves their home country.
Another big problem I have is I know that I personally have not yet received the promised copy of the NDA. This is a bit of a problem since I don't quite have a photographic memory and so don't know the exact terms should I need to look them up.
Also, that whole deal of "No photographs, but we'll give you a copy of all the slides!" has turned out to be BS (Surprise!) The presentations from third parties aren't in there, though they've been promised "real soon" on an FTP I can probably slurp 3KB/sec from at our wonderful connections we pay $10 per GB of data for around here. Oh and even the AMD slides are missing things that were up there, like a certain CPU name, and a certain set of benchmarks that I'm probably not supposed to mention, but I'm not sure about that because I don't have a copy of the NDA.
However my biggest problem was with the choice of location. Why the hell did someone decide to launch this product in what's essentially like a bad neighborhood of Los Angeles with all the signs changed to Arabic and filled with rude French people? Basically if McDonalds can't even be bothered to set up shop there, I'm a bit wary of the place. If you find the person responsible for this, please slap them for me. If AMD invites me to another press event, I hope it won't in a country where I have to worry about being immediately arrested if I bring my husband along with me.
Of course, that's if they invite me. It's easy to be "Gentlemen" when you're the big fish, and can afford to fly around the globe on your own dollar. When you have to beg and plead to get an invite to 1 press event a year so you can see products that will be on shelves before you even get a press sample (that they will make you return), and will cost 3x the promised price due to local corruption, it's another story.
Hackette Minor
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Inq write up
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39176
 
That's one of the funniest I've read in awhile.

We made our excuses and left with the distinct feeling that the fine people from ATI are being borged into AMD people with little subtelty and perhaps the clippity-clop of a shire horse over roughshod roadmaps
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Clearly the NDA has been allowed to be lifted earlier (on the 2nd) to spoil the launch of the Ultra on the same day ;) , the R600 no doubt will take away the thunder of the Ultra on all the review sites. Thus ruining the launch.
 
Interesting slide .... memory bandwith is 106Gb/s ... coompare that with the 8800gtx @ 86Gb/s and that has a memory speed of 1800 compared to the XT's 1650.
Ok so it isnt everything, but that holds promise.
 
Yeah reports now indicate 2nd May is Nvidias day with there Ultra announcment ;)

They shoulda held off and then just done a magic announcment when ATI do of course ;)
 
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