Tuesday, April 24th 2007
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Performance Benchmarks
The title speaks for itself. DailyTech has managed to run through some benchmarks with the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB graphics card. The tests were conducted on an Intel D975XBX2 BadAxe2, Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 and 2x1GB DDR2-800 MHz. The operating system on the test system was Windows XP, with a fresh install before benchmarking each card. Testing of the AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT was performed using the 8.361 Catalyst RC4 drivers, while the GeForce 8800 GTS used ForceWare 158.19 drivers. All game tests were run with the maximum detail settings at resolutions of 1280x1024.The ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is expected to be widely available in mid-May, with a suggested retail price of $499.
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DailyTech
94 Comments on ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Performance Benchmarks
The HD 2900XT benchmarks used release candidate drivers. These new benchmarks use the drivers supplied to thier partners, which are pretty much the final release.
I couldn't care less about optimised drivers either, that card SHOULD tromp any of the existing cards on the market.... maybe the ATI supernerd techies just aren't as good as the nvidia supernerd techies...
BTW "supernerd techies" is by no means an actual REAL life position... haahaa
But seeing as I dislike AMD, and like ATi, I can comfort myself by simply saying this is AMD's fault :)
Radeon 9700 anyone?
The Oblivion fps is just too high imo at 1920x1200 - 98.4??!!. Surely it can't be that high. Same with FEAR's result at this resolution.
Dont take any current results as gosple, its like anything else, proof in the pudding as my grandfather use to say.
i will stick with my current card till i see a real valid reasion to upgrade, specly if i can add a 2nd card to run as a PPU in this system.
I avoid first gen cards anymore, because the fx line was first gen and sucked ass, gf6 line was better BUT still had problems due to poor driver support, i went from a 9600 to a 9800SE 256bit hard moded to pro@higher then xt clocks(my buddy still uses the card, hes now the 4th owner, went from friend to friend to friend lol)
then i got a x800pro vivo that i flashed to xt pe the day i got it, this after i tryed a 6800gt and sold it due to driver problems(3 of us all had the same problems with the 6800gt/ultra cards driver...) thankfully the 6800gt was selling for VERY nice prices at the time, so selling it got me more then enought to get the x800pro vivo and a good addon cooler :)
b4 anybody says that the x800 was a first gen card, it wasnt, it was/is effectivly an evolution on he 9700 core, alot more powerfull sure, but still, very simlar.
i avoided the x1800 line because, why upgrade to something thats going to give you no performance advantege over what you have?
i got a nice price for a laptop i sold to a buddy, as payment i had him order my parts for this system at newegg, worked out really well imho, i payed 278bucks for an x1900xtx and 28bucks for a vf900cu :)
So there are two reasons of this. Either card are defective(remember 8800GTX wrong resistor value?) and didn't switch to 3D mode or some driver problems, or Nvidia paid for dailytech to do all this.
www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1118553&page=2
I could not find a bench with those particular resolutions for oblivion specifically for the 8800GTX but I foind one for 1600 x 1200 and it was running with AA/AF and HDR enabled and acheiving 123FPS!! Now I am not saying this release is accurate at all and TBH I have some doubts over the comparison of the 2 cards in question, I have little doubt though that on the right rig the 8800GTX can acheive around what they said it can in this thread starter.