x1950 XTX misleading results

[neo-omega]

i have had a small thought as to why the x1950 xtx is delivering such low performance, maybe it is due to the drivers being used by the testers not being able to utalise the potential of the card. my thinking is that the GDDR4 will run differently from the GDDR3 used in every other card. i had a look on the ati site at the most recent drivers for their products and saw no mention of the x1950 XTX or any other flavour of the x1950.
maybe this performance lack is similar to that of the original quad-sLi (other than bad hardware ).

so my thought is this, once fully supporting drivers become avaliable, maybe the x1950 will be able to show the performance it has been promising?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

no, look at other cards that run ddr1, ddr2 and ddr3, its the speed that seperates them from each other when it comes to performance.

at the end of the day ddr1 clocked at 300mhz will be the same as ddr3clocked at 300mhz. no difference in performance.

for ati the main advantage of the switch to ddr4 is the reduced power consumption which they desperatley needed. the gpu itself is too fillrate limited to saturate the additional bandwidth provided by the faster memory.

 

[neo-omega]

ok, but the lack of proper drivers must be limiting the capabilities of the card though. I mean after all doesnt the 580+ core in the x1950 have a newer architecture requiring new drivers?

 

[Darkwave]

ok, but the lack of proper drivers must be limiting the capabilities of the card though. I mean after all doesnt the 580+ core in the x1950 have a newer architecture requiring new drivers?

No, it's the same core. The only real difference is native GDDR4 support.

 

[fornowagain]

ok, but the lack of proper drivers must be limiting the capabilities of the card though. I mean after all doesnt the 580+ core in the x1950 have a newer architecture requiring new drivers?

Its the same core design, so same drivers. And its not exactly slow now is it.