Wheres yee 2900xt review??

[H] never breaks NDA, and ive NEVER seen them release a review early either :p god damn... Brent is so evil :D
 
makes alot of sense to have "non disclosure" of something already in the retail channel and in consumer's hands heh...
 
Tell us this, is the 2900 XT on average 20% faster than the 640MB GTS? Unless the 2900 XT is 20% faster than the 8800 GTS im getting the 640MB GTS.
 
LawGiver said:
Tell us this, is the 2900 XT on average 20% faster than the 640MB GTS? Unless the 2900 XT is 20% faster than the 8800 GTS im getting the 640MB GTS.
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that's fantastic! clearly, you have a highly advanced decision-making MCP handling these types of ridiculously difficult computations. :p

+1 gold star


go post count, go!
 
Shamino over at Vr-Zone seems to have posted a review, but I think the taffic is making their website explode. I cant see more than maybe 4 pages of the review, and I've been at it for about an hour now. :p
 
Neist said:
Shamino over at Vr-Zone seems to have posted a review, but I think the taffic is making their website explode. I cant see more than maybe 4 pages of the review, and I've been at it for about an hour now. :p
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Heh... sorry to repost this again, but:


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Download the review archived by Rapidshare viewable locally on your computer including all pictures: http://rapidshare.com/files/31092804/r600_uploaded_by_fleetops.net.zip.html

OUCH! Reading through it now after having downloaded from the link I just posted:

Idle, you can see core at around 54C while loaded it goes to 71C without any overclocking. And this is one setup lying naked, imagine it in a case! Definitely one of the hottest cards around. The temperature-controlled fan on the card has little time in slow-spin operation, spinning up not long from start of operation, and perpetually all the time when 3D is ran. Not too much of a worry since it's not loud, but the noise is definitely audible.
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3D Mark 06 SM3.0 Test "Canyon Flight" was ran to record the power consumption. The whole setup was the same except for Video Cards. Setup Specs on the next page.

PowerColor HD X2900XT Idle: 245 watts Load: 365 watts
ASUS EN8800GTS 640MB 513/792MHz Idle: 240 watts Load: 300 watts
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Vrzone graph said:
Quake 4 ultra quality 1600x1200 16xaf:

ATI 2900XT: 98fps
eVGA SC 8800GTS 320: 109fps
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Vrzone graph said:
2142 battlefield 1600x1200 16xAF 4xAA:
ATI 2900XT: 32fps
eVGA SC 8800GTS 320: 70fps
Again, like what we've seen in our Lost coast tests, when Anti-Aliasing was turned on, the X2900XT faced performance issues, due to current driver implementation for sure as you can see it losing out to even the X1950XTX.
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VRzone review said:
At normal view screen size you can already tell the difference. Look at the gun, that's closest to your character, you can see it starkly sharper on the 8800 compared to the 2900. Notice especially the words and buttons on the gun. Words are sharper and so are the finer details on the buttons on the card below. Even the dirt track further away from the character looks sharper rendered on the 8800.

(PICTURES HERE WITH NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE)

At normal view screen size you can already tell the difference. Look at the gun, that's closest to your character, you can see it starkly sharper on the 8800 compared to the 2900. Notice especially the words and buttons on the gun. Words are sharper and so are the finer details on the buttons on the card below. Even the dirt track further away from the character looks sharper rendered on the 8800.
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I would post more examples, but it continues on like this basically...
 
Well, ATI still doesn't like Ogl, and the drivers everyone's been reviewing with have an Anti-Aliasing bug. It seems to be a little better than a GTS 640 right now, but I'm worried that if I go ahead and buy a 640, they're ATI's going to crank out a few drivers that will kick it's performance up higher. And then, we haven't seen DX10 performance... Oh well.
 
Aztlan said:
didnt want to make a thread about it since there are plenty already

here is another review

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/asus/EAH2900XT/g1.htm
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Thats what I like to see. :) At high resolutions its on-par or better than the 8800GTX and since I plan on getting a 24" monitor wih 1920x1200, that will help me alot. And I will also get 2 eventually(or even right off the bat) since my mobo doest support sli.

Hopefully benchmarks will only get better as well with the release of new drivers.
 
devil_trigger said:
Thats what I like to see. :) At high resolutions its on-par or better than the 8800GTX and since I plan on getting a 24" monitor wih 1920x1200, that will help me alot. And I will also get 2 eventually(or even right off the bat) since my mobo doest support sli.

Hopefully benchmarks will only get better as well with the release of new drivers.
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Look at the driver versions used with 8800 series (very, very old drivers) and the test settings used (= not apple to apple comparisons).
 
Even with those old drivers, if I am readin ghte charts correctly,

8800GTX 16 x AA and 16 x AF is running similar FPS to the 2900XT @ 8x AA and 16 x AF

When the 8800 GTX is doing 8x aa and 16x af, the 2900 XT is doing 4x aa and still similar #'s.

Without any AA and AF the 8800 is way in the lead, in some cases 50+ FPS
 
Ugliest looking R600:
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It wouldn't look so bad on an 8800 with the black PCB and fan.
 
I plan on getting 2. :)

I'll prolly wait a little longer for more updates/drivers and the like.

And of course, [H]'s review.:D
 
surely [H] can release their review now as its the 14th in GMT and GMT is the worlds base time.

Well that's what they shall say to ATI that they though it was GMT ;)
 
sh0gun said:
surely [H] can release their review now as its the 14th in GMT and GMT is the worlds base time.

Well that's what they shall say to ATI that they though it was GMT ;)
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Brent and Kyle are too busy playing a quake deathmatch with them to write up the review.
 
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