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New - 1GB 2900XT Released

OK, as far as performance goes I just found this. It gives benchmarks from 'a thread on Coolaler.com', however this website seems to be in Japanese and is therefore useless. Anyway, alleged 3DMark scores are as follows:

Default 743/1000:
3Dmark01.......................68753
3Dmark03.......................39360
3Dmark05.......................22842
3Dmark06.......................12944

Edit: Also found this. Includes pictures and overclocked 3DMark scores.
 
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Found this too.

2900XT 1GB GDDR4 Water Cooled @ 986 / 1197

3dmark01: 69510
3dmark03: 45763
3dmark05: 23632
3dmark06: 13802

Not sure if it's true or not, or even good :confused:

Edit: Typo's!
 
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flibby said:
Found this too.

2900XT 1GG GDD4 Water Cooled @ 986 / 1197

3dmark01: 69510
3dmark03: 45763
3dmark05: 23632
3dmark06: 13802

Not sure if it's true or not, or even good :confused:
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Tests done by Viper John who is a legend to say the least, he also confirmed the only card that could beat it in his testing is the Ultra :eek: , looking like fairly decent cards atm
 
He's also talking about OEM cards with cherry picked cores, volt modded and under water. Looks like these ones may have more headroom than the 512Mb, nearly 1GHz core when modified. That's very nice.
 
I'm actually really glad, and hope it does well. Maybe the extra 512MB RAM and that it's GDDR4 make up for the other downfalls and bring it back to a state where it's very good... although no getting around the crazy power requirements for the 2900 XT I guess, and with this extra ram and GDDR4 I'm expecting the power requirements to be even higher, not sure if that is accurate however.
 
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=146577


@default clock speed

3Dmark01.......................63713
3Dmark03.......................38777
3Dmark05.......................21480
3Dmark06.......................12769




@overclock to 858/1153

3Dmark01.......................65491
3Dmark03.......................42680
3Dmark05.......................22607
3Dmark06.......................14255
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Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB launched


http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6498.html
Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB has finally been launched. The card that has been causing such a stir has finally been officially unveiled and it's no one less than Diamond Multimedia that has done it. Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT is the first retail card that sports a 1GB memory buffer and as rumors have been saying, it's GDDR4 capable of more than 2GHz (that's 146GB/s bandwidth!). Even though the memory is the same as with the X1950 XTX, AMD has learned its lesson and managed to tame the memories a lot better now. We've seen several early benchmarks by Denny over at XtremeSystems and according to the author himself; the timings are a lot better now.

We're hoping to present some benchmarks ourselves if everything goes well and then perhaps compare it to the other top of the line cards of today. A CrossFire setup with a total graphics memory buffer of 2GB and close to 300GB/s memory bandwidth sounds close to a dream come true.

Other than the memory there isn't anything new about the card, but to be honest, just the increased memory buffer and speed is enough to make us interested. The massive bandwidth of these cards should be a feast for the GPU, which we all know really likes memory bandwidth.

The card will be available from broad range of system builders, including the previously mentioned Extreme-PC.ca, but also integrators like Falcon North West, Biohazard, Maingear, Vigor, XI, Canada Computers, NCIX and several others. The card will mainly be included in pre-built systems, but since we've already heard that Extreme-PC will be selling the card separately it seems quite feasible that others will as well.
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From this thread on XS pricing is looking at around $500 USD +

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=147013&page=3


http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=40161

1GB.JPG


399 plus 110 equals 510 dollars for 1GB of video memory... memory that R600 obviously needs
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$510 USD is ~£260 when directly conveted. So unless the 512mb HD2900XT prices drops loads then the 1gb HD2900XT is looking definatly to be around 8800GTX price range. I dont think it will cost as much as an 8800Ultra.


I wonder what my new graphics card will be. :)
 
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1gb would be nice but my 512mb is fine for me and will be untill theres somthing worth upgrading to.

i stayed with my good old 7800GTX from relese day till relese day of the HD 2900 XT and its double the performance if not tripple, so im going to wait till theres somthing x2/x3 better than there is now befor another upgrade.
 
Azza said:
$510 USD is ~£260 when directly conveted. So unless the 512mb HD2900XT prices drops loads then the 1gb HD2900XT is looking definatly to be around 8800GTX price range. I dont think it will cost as much as an 8800Ultra.
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There is already a Canadian company selling them for £330 + vat (£387). They have the 512Mb for £240 + vat (£282)
 
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Well let's hope they don't screw up UK pricing (pounds). If the price of $510 is something to go on, then you can roughly see that in US online stores, 8800 GTX's tend to be around $580 - $610 US, and 8800 GTS 320's are $285 - $310, and 8800 GTS 640's are $400 - $400. I guess if you take it like that, then the 1GB 2900XT's appear to be in the middle between 640 GTS's and GTX's, so if that applies overhere, it's gonna be pretty much £280 - £320, depending on the cards extras and brand name.

I'm 50/50 on being happy with it at that price, if it's competing close to (but not on par with) 8800 GTX standards, then that's a nice price, but if it's on par with a 8800 GTS 640, I can't see the point in paying £50 - £70 more for it over just getting a 640 GTS.

If it's competing on par with a 640 GTS, I'd like to see it at £250/260 ish, with a price drop on the 512 model to around £210/220.
 
flibby said:
Well let's hope they don't screw up UK pricing (pounds). If the price of $510 is something to go on, then you can roughly see that in US online stores, 8800 GTX's tend to be around $580 - $610 US, and 8800 GTS 320's are $285 - $310, and 8800 GTS 640's are $400 - $400. I guess if you take it like that, then the 1GB 2900XT's appear to be in the middle between 640 GTS's and GTX's, so if that applies overhere, it's gonna be pretty much £280 - £320, depending on the cards extras and brand name.

I'm 50/50 on being happy with it at that price, if it's competing close to (but not on par with) 8800 GTX standards, then that's a nice price, but if it's on par with a 8800 GTS 640, I can't see the point in paying £50 - £70 more for it over just getting a 640 GTS.

If it's competing on par with a 640 GTS, I'd like to see it at £250/260 ish, with a price drop on the 512 model to around £210/220.
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The $510 is part of the system for an OEM PC. And don't forget tax. From the three places I've seen so far, the Diamond card is about $600-$650 cad + tax. That's £337 to £365, I'd bet its at least £330inc to start with.

No international shipping, so not a competitor.

http://www.extreme-pc.ca/showproduct.asp?productid=371414&menu1id=12&menu2id=99&menu3id=39
 
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Dual (CrossFire) HD2900XT 1GB DDR4 S(Click on the score to see the performance settings and the 3Dmark score)

@default

3Dmark03.......................60120
3Dmark05.......................26586
3Dmark06.......................19390

For a comparison, here is the Nvidia 8800GTX Ultra in SLI score ($1880 + tax CND in GPUs):

3Dmark06 701/1163 SLi.............19819


Duno bout you but those 3D Mark06 scores are mighty close and i bet two 2900XT 1 GB are cheaper than two 8800 ultras
 
Tom|Nbk said:
It was only ever going to compete with the GTS anyway, I thought you understood that?
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Oh come on, don't be so naive. They pretended that to be the intention once they realised it was already the case. When they initiated this project, they didn't say "I know, let's make it worse than NVidia's best offering". :rolleyes:
 
Why do people keep linking to benchmarks for the 3dmark series?

Lets have some proper gaming benchmarks before people start thinking it will beat a 8800Ultra.
 
oweneades said:
Lets have some proper gaming benchmarks before people start thinking it will beat a 8800Ultra.
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Heh that's true, I kinda wish people would just run proper games as benchmarks rather than 3dmark, always better to see the performance in games like Stalker, Oblivion and Company of Heroes (etc).

No international shipping, so not a competitor.

http://www.extreme-pc.ca/showproduc...d=99&menu3id=39
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Thing is with that though, is it's Canadian dollars I think, so 650 CA to USD is about 600, then giving that it's very hard to get ahold of at the moment and that the model in that link is pre-overclocked... I'm still thinking $500 - $525 (or £280 - £320). Be interesting to see what it does retail for though over here when it's available in masses :)
 
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Robbie G said:
Oh come on, don't be so naive. They pretended that to be the intention once they realised it was already the case. When they initiated this project, they didn't say "I know, let's make it worse than NVidia's best offering". :rolleyes:
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The XTX was meant to compete with the GTX that was known along time ago.
 
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