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*** The Official HD2900XT Thread ***

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Very interesting.

I was waiting for this week to decide what im going to buy, either 8800GTS or the 2900XT.

Silence is quite important to me. I know how quiet the 8800 Series are. Still not made up my mind yet :p
 
It uses more power, is hot, noisy, not as fast as a GTX and has worse AF, why would anyone even consider this card, or am I reading it wrong?
 
Dutch Guy said:
It uses more power, is hot, noisy, not as fast as a GTX and has worse AF, why would anyone even consider this card, or am I reading it wrong?
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hmmm price? , futures ? , HDMI ? better driver supp (i hope;) )
 
Dutch Guy said:
It uses more power, is hot, noisy, not as fast as a GTX and has worse AF, why would anyone even consider this card, or am I reading it wrong?
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Because it is the direct competitor to the GTS, not the GTX.
 
queamin said:
The gts640 seams a better buy unless drivers are at fault but don't really think so.
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Theres plenty of evidence to suggest that drivers are at fault, guru 3d stated that theres some kind of fsaa bug that wrecks performance. Also the fact that an x1950 is at least on par with it in some benchmarks.
 
Trouble is, we won't know if there's a driver problem until they release drivers that boost performance. Which may take ages.

Trying to decide whether to get one and hope good drivers come out, or play safe and spend £100 more on a GTX.

Waiting another week or so may be the best option, at least I'll get to see how other people get on with them. Hopefully a decent set of drivers will be released very soon, I've just finished uni and have loads of games waiting to be played. :)
 
tereu5 said:
hmmm price? , futures ? , HDMI ? better driver supp (i hope;) )
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More expensive than a GTS, 8800 cards are also DX10, HDMI can be solved by using a 3 quid DVI > HDMI cable.

From the [H]ardOCP review:
Here is what it boils down to. If the Radeon HD 2900 XT performed exactly on par with the GeForce 8800 GTS in every game, it would still be a loser because it draws nearly 100 more watts of power, meaning it is very inefficient. The facts are though that it doesn’t even match the 8800 GTS currently. In every game it slides in underperforming compared to the GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB, and it does it while drawing a lot more power, as much power or more as an 8800 GTX. Not only that, but a GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB based video card can now be had for up to $70 cheaper than the Radeon HD 2900 XT. I don’t know about you, but a video card that is cheaper, runs a lot faster and draws less energy just seems like the better value to me.

This doesn’t even bring into the equation the GeForce 8800 GTX which outclasses the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT on every front. Yes, it costs about $130 more, but that $130 buys you a lot more performance in games. It is sad that ATI does not have a GPU to compete with the GeForce 8800 GTX. At this point NVIDIA has, dare I say it, a monopoly over the high-end of computer gaming video card market. If you want the best gaming performance, it is still the GeForce 8800 GTX. The GTX has no competition.
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I didn't expect a good performance but this is shocking, it uses close to 300W for the videocard alone and even then it can't match a GTX and it does that by running at 90C and with a fan that is very loud :(
 
WoW, i was looking forward to that Guru3D review, but it even gets hammered by the 320mb GTS. :eek:

Going through those reviews now, its bad. :(
 
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Why in some AA cases does your performance on the Radeon X1950 beat that of the Radeon HD 2900 XT?

We've identified a performance problem on R6xx with Adaptive AA enabled, which lowers performance more than expected in some games. This can lead to cases where HD 2000 boards perform lower than previous generations. We are currently looking at a fix for this.
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WoW, i was looking forward to that Guru3D review, but it even gets hammered by the 320mb GTS. :eek:
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And it gets hammered while using 100W more power and has the edge spec wise, it doesn't make sense, more shaders, faster corespeed, more memory bandwith, more ROP's, more transistors and more memory :confused:
 
pastymuncher said:
Cheapest one i have seen on sale so far is £258.62 for a Powercolour one. Some UK retailers have jumped the gun.
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a week or maybe a 2,3 and will go lower ...especially when GTS 640 could drop few quids from actual price
 
Dutch Guy said:
And it gets hammered while using 100W more power and has the edge spec wise, it doesn't make sense, more shaders, faster corespeed, more memory bandwith, more ROP's, more transistors and more memory :confused:
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Yeah those power requirements have totally lost me to.

Well Nvidia had a great chance when they released the 8 series to do even more damage to ATi with decent drivers, as lets face it they've had 6 months, if they did the decent drivers from the off every month etc... the 8 series could have been so much more than it is now, now ATi have released a very poor card and given them another chance here, lets hope they take it and start the driver support, ATi have blown it.
 
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