Monday, June 11th 2007
GDDR4 HD 2900 on the way
Although this was posted in the forums a couple of days ago, there is now some more official news of the first ATI HD 2900 XT using GDDR4 memory that will be available for retail, as well as a few more places to purchase it. The card will initially be exclusively available from Diamond Multimedia, featuring 1GB of GDDR4 memory along with all the other 2900 perks such as built in HDMI and 5.1 surround sound. The card will officially be launched on 14th June, and the current list of retailers is as follows: Biohazard Computer Systems, Extreme PC, Falcon North West, Maingear, Memory Express, NCIX, Smooth Creations, Velocity Micro, Vigor Gaming, XI, ABS, Cyberpowerpc, Polywell, ibuypower and Canada Computers. Pricing is generally around $650, and most of those sites should accept pre-orders. Presumably this is essentially the HD 2900 XTX, as that was originally going to be the 2900 with GDDR4 memory, however the name is still XT - perhaps ATI has more to come in the HD 2900 series? At present this should be the most powerful ATI card.
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52 Comments on GDDR4 HD 2900 on the way
As for the Drivers im sure ATI will try to gain whatever it can and trust me when i say that they will even waste some image quality in order to get there.
And there are plenty of Benches out there that have the X2900XT BEHIND in 6 out of 10 tests with the BFG 8800GTS 320 OC which aint that well OCed anyways :)
Also in Guru3d you can find more benchmarks favoring the 8800GTS over the X2900XT.
Not to mention that in the press conference ATI officials said that the X2900XT is here to go up against the 8800GTS , they didnt say that its here to slaughter the 8800GTS ;)
(not directed at Hellas) - I find it mildly amusing that no nVidia owners ever mention that. I've owned both nVidia and ATI cards, and like both. But the fact that the 2900 blows past the GTS on some in-game tests, and nearly matches a GTX, and has true HDMI with audio, is what lead me to buy it.
We could go back and forth constantly with this argument, and there would still be no clear winner.
So, can we all please just let it go?
However the Sound of the fan , the high temps , the power consumption and the fact that i had Numerous driver problems with the X1950XT are the reasons i wont be getting ATI anytime soon and not the performance / price ratio.
2. The fan noise is not bad at all.
3. Power consumption is a none issue if you have the correct PSU
I request that you stop regurgitating the same anti HD 2900xt crap in every thread you post in.
2) Not bad ?? Same answer as above....
3) Power Consumption has to do with only with the PSU ? I thought it also had to do with the power bill...But even if it had to do with JUST the PSU why would anyone who has an 450-550 Watt PSU should need to upgrade to an 600+Watt PSU in order to get this card ? :)
Actually you can request whatever you want its a free world.....
My opinion is mine and good for me thousands more feel the same.
Now you wouldnt by any chance be supporting the X2900XT since you have it ?
So youre Possitiveness in every thread about the X2900XT doesnt make you the same you say about me ? Grow up :)
There I said it.....see I am not a fanboi! :D Would you say thats a fair appraisal?
-What 1000's of of people "feel" the same as you?
-Please provide the data that shows substantial change in your power bill?
-Words like: wouldn't, doesn't, you're and positiveness are found without apostrophe or misspelled.
-Sentence structure, spelling, etc say a lot about you instead of the message you are trying to convey. Don't get me wrong users in a forum do not spell check every post, it happens. But if you worked on that instead of attempting to bad mouth a product and user(s) on this forum your credibility would not be questioned. Therefore it is you not I that needs to grow up.
2.) Do you own a 2900 to say that it is loud? It's not the quietest video card, but it isn't even close to the loudest either. If I set my Silverstone FM121 fan to half speed, I can't hear the 2900 while gaming. And don't most reviewers test cards in an open air platform?
3.) If you already have enough power supply, what's the problem? And if you're that worried about your electric bill going up by that small amount, you probably shouldn't have a gaming rig to begin with.
And lastly, the GTS and 2900 trade blows, depending on the benchmark/game. Sometimes the 2900 is nearly a match for a GTX. I never see a GTS approaching GTX frame rates at stock speeds. Despite that, you don't see me coming into all the 8800GTS threads, and bashing it.
If you don't like the 2900, that's fine, but quit coming into every 2900 thread you see, just to downtalk it. That's called trolling.
If you don't like the 2900, that's fine, but quit coming into every 2900 thread you see, just to downtalk it. That's called trolling.
SIG!!!!
2) The 2900 is the LOUDEST amongst the last generation of cards, im not going to test it against previous generation cards cause its useless to do so.
3) The 2900 is nearly a match for the GTX in 3dmark ( which aint really a game ) and in 2-3 games that work better with ATI cards than with Nvidia ones.
4) I did test the X2900XT for 1 day just to see what everyone was so anxious about. Didnt see anything that was nearly what we , i , were expecting for this card as for what it scored against my OCed GTS well i have posted results in another thread along with numbers.
5) Posting my opinion against a product isnt trolling, its just speaking out my point of view since i happen to own both the 320 and the 640mb versions of the GTS in 2 different rigs and i did try the 2900 for 1 full day.
A lot of people run 3dmark and don't run games.It is a game 3Dmark the game is to get the best score:)
We aint fighting zOaib its just that there always will be people that like Nvidia cards more and people that like ATI cards more and always they will call each other Fanboys but in the end noone accepts it :P
Burns too much? This statement makes no sense at all.
You can OC this video card however, you need a 8-pin PCie cable to do so (with stock cooling).
Today's warning kitten is brought to you by the number 5, the letter Q, and the color red. (Sesame street, anyone :p).
Today's warning kitten is telling everyone to settle down, and anyone who doesn't take a chill pill will be given a two day stay in the TPU ban hotel, if you get my drift.