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Will Ati Release.....

Well sapphire already hinted of an HD2900XTX 1gig version due soon.

But due to the impact of the HD2900XT id expect in September/October a refresh of cards to replace it proberly will be the HD2950 range ;) all on 65nm process so its faster/cooler/smaller/less power.

Will be in the same manner as the X1800XT, it came out after a major delay and XT still was delayed...it wasnt all that compared to 7800 series then 3 months later the X1900XT series released.
 
And then 2 weeks after Geforce will ruin the party by releasing their next chip. Doubt the Nvidia era will end that soon :P
 
True, the 1800XT series were easily blown away by the 1950XTX and if we could see a difference like that between the current 2900XT and the 2950XTX running on the 65nm then I'm sure the performance would surpass even the 8800Ultra with ease, hey maybe even better than the 2GB 8950 GX2? :D

I must have admit I actually thought the 2900XT would have been on the 65nm but its not so I'll wait until the 3rd quarter before making a purchase on a 1GB ATI card.
 
Yes ATi already said they were quickly moving to the 65nm process, and the x2900 will be replaced with them, its only an x1800 the x2900, only gona be out about 3-4 months just like the x1800 was before it got replaced with the x1900, as the 65nm x2950's are coming.
 
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I bet AA still won't be fixed though. Seems like they're sticking with that method for the future.

Apart from AA where does the 2900XT fall down? From the benchmarks I've seen it's roughly half way between the GTS and GTX without antialiasing which is good for its price range.

I'm wondering just how much quicker the 2950XT will have to be to contend with 8800GTS and GTX cards with antialiasing.
 
The fact is; no-one outside ATI knows whats going to happen to AA, there is not even a full driver for the 2900xt yet, and seen as the hardware is very young whatever I or anyone else says is merely speculative, when I got my 9800xt the performance on Farcry at the start was absolutely abysmal, but as driver revisions came out, it made a heck of a lot of difference, I have a feeling that it will be exactly the same scenario here, we can debate it til the moon goes down, but in the end it doesn't really matter because the performance is going to change, not just for ATI, but for nVidia too, they'll have to pick up the pace too, so everybody wins. :)
 
They may fix the AA, as the x2950's are supposedly redesinged to be what the R600's should have been, they will have more texture power etc..., and ive a sneaky feeling the AA will be better, if all true of course, but i did read that not only is the x2950 XTX coming, but theres also an x2950 XT coming, and so im presuming that that will be the x2900 XT's replacement.
 
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What I always wonder is; why would a graphics card company would spend $billions (made up figure, but prob not far off) on a broken graphics card?
Did anyone even test the r600 before it came out, because ,so far, the problems I have with it are pretty major.
 
The 2900XT is far from broken. The only problem it has really is AA. That's because of a pretty poor design decision to go with future proofed AA methods instead of concentrating on the old methods.

If you look at benchmarks without AA then it performs exactly where it's price range says it should. Slightly better then the 8800GTS 640mb.
 
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If you look at benchmarks without AA then it performs exactly where it's price range says it should. Slightly better then the 8800GTS 640mb.
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man who wants to play games without AA these days? and when you spend 250 quid on a gfx card your gonna be hoping it can at least run with 2xAA or more.
 
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