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x1800xt crossfire

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wizzackr

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after all the bad news for ATI i guess they'll be happy for some positive press these days. That being said - a direct quote from Anandtech's:


"While the exact performance results achieved comparing X1800XT Crossfire with 7800GTX SLI can not yet be published, we can tell you we benchmarked with F.E.A.R., Quake 4, Splinter Cell - Chaos Theory, Doom 3, Far Cry, and 3DMark05 at 1600x1200 resolution with 4X AA and 8X AF enabled. ATI X1800XT Crossfire won every benchmark over nVidia 7800GTX SLI in tese tests.

We also ran standard scores (1024x768) for Aquamark 3, 3Dmark03, and 3Dmark05. Once again Crossfire X1800XT outperformed nVidia 7800GTX SLI in every benchmark."
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...looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel for the reds. fingers crossed ;) If only they could get all the nice stuff out of their door quicker and we wouldn't all have to sit here reading all those tasty previews - that board looks hot.

edit: almost forgot the link ATI RD580: Dual x16 Crossfire Preview
 
Thats interesting. But did they put up those tests against the GTX 512mb? If so... I wonder by how far they DID get better.
 
V99 said:
Thats interesting. But did they put up those tests against the GTX 512mb? If so... I wonder by how far they DID get better.
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The tests were only done with the 1800XT vs the 7800GTX 256 since ATI does not view the 512 version as the competition of the 1800XT. They will release a PE version later to compete.
 
It really ought to beat the 7800 gtx... it's only going to be more than 6 months after the 7800 gtx... which is just about a complete refresh.
 
somehow i cannot get rid of the feeling that ATI's next refresh (r580 and RD580) is all that r520/crossfire should've been in the first place :D if they get both out of their door and onto the shelves in quantity next year things are going to look interesting again...
 
Best part,
ATI was roundly criticized for the inability of X850XT Crossfire to run at resolutions above 1600x1200, even though most end-users are not actually able to run at higher resolutions with today's most common 19" and 20" flat-panel displays. We confirmed that the new compositor chips used in X1800XT Crossfire do indeed run fine in Crossfire mode at 2048x1536. ATI tells us there is no limitation in the X1800XT compositor that would prevent even higher resolutions from working as they should.
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