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Radeon 2900pro v 1950pro

gremlin

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I am building a new rig and will be fitting two cards. Can someone tell me whether the price of the new 2900pro is justified, or performance wise would I be better off installing two 1950pro`s which are a lot cheaper.
 
gremlin said:
I am building a new rig and will be fitting two cards. Can someone tell me whether the price of the new 2900pro is justified, or performance wise would I be better off installing two 1950pro`s which are a lot cheaper.
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Yes as its basically a downclocked 2900xt. Go for the 2900pro.
 
2900pro can be had for around £170, two 1950 pro's will cost you around £140, so price difference is nothing to get worked up over, i would say performance wise the 2900 will easily out gun the 1950's, plus you will be able to run DX10 games with the 2900, so 2900pro F T W.:D
 
gremlin said:
Thanks guys 2900pro (x2) it is then
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For the cost of 2 x 2900 pros you could have a 8800 GTX or even an Ultra.

Without the hassle of crossfire and the need for one hell of a meaty psu to feed those pros and the heat problem, you can have one card which will beat the two 2900 pros in the majority of games.

Then when one GTX or Ultra isn;t enough, get another in SLI ;)
 
willhub said:
2x 2900pro's overclocked to XT would be awsome for Ultra price, as 2 2900XT's can beat 2x 8800GTX's :cool:
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that is if you are playing sli/crossfire enabled games otherwise the other is just waisting space until its needed, on the other hand a gtx or ultra would show improovmants across the bored not just 20% of the time (depending on how many sli/crossfire games youi play)
 
killer_uk said:
Crossfire doesn't need 'crossfire enabled' games. It runs in every game as far as I know, unlike SLI
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Wasn't aware of that myself :o

But do two ati cards in crossfire give you 200% performance or is it like SLI and you only get 150%?

If you only get 150% and the pro's won't run at xt speeds (wait and see) then a GTX or ULtra will still outperform or at least match as last time I looked 8800 Ultra>8800 GTX> 2900xt > 8800 GTS

And don't forget you can always overclock the GTX
 
willhub said:
Its shown, 2x 2900XT's are faster than 2x 8800GTX SLi.
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think you got it wrong mate, 2 x 2900xt's are around the same as a single gtx:

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so did you make a mistake? or are you supplying favourable info for one side only :D
 
thought id post this one seperate:
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do take into account this info for the above bioshock benchmark:

It’s important to note that the Radeon cards in BioShock are running with 0xAA/16xAF, all the other cards (including the GeForce 7900 GT) are running with 4xAA/16xAF
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oh and before someone says its dodgey drivers i may as well post this:

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro
Catalyst 7.9

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 256MB
ForceWare 163.69
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so firingsquad have some a recent review using the lastest drivers for BOTH gpu manufacturers AND test on both xp and vista operating systems so the results speak for themselves.
 
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