Originally posted by: SniperDaws
Originally posted by: Murasame
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: SniperDaws
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Old drivers, but you didn't even listen to what I said. I said Oblivion with the texture packs...they didn't use the 4096x4096 LOD textures and all that.
Even the creator of the LOD pack says that running it on a card with lower than 512MB of memory would be disasterous. He even has an uncompressed version that needs the 768MB GTX to run well.
But if thats the performance without the lod textures and all that then whats it like with.............EVEN SLOWER i think youll find then, which makes the 2900Pro even slower still, so please tell me why are you trying to tell me that the 2900pro is a better choice over the 8800GTS 320mb when neither card has 768mb of ram.
Because the HD2900 will have 512MB memory, possible overclock to the HD2900Xt specs, and would also have the same GPU and features of the HD2900XT. So you get the HD2900XT performance for much less money. That's the big deal. It's all very possible.
Oh and it's supposed to be a single slot card although I have no pictures to confirm.
Exactly as Cmd said. The big deal is that these 2900pro's are speculated as being 2900xt's that didn't make the cut. So you are basically getting a 2900xt for far less money. Also the 512bit bus and 512MB memory also make a big impact. Though I have seen on I believe it was HIS' site where the 512 bit pro was said to be limited edition and that after those sold out the rest of the pro's would be 256bit. Also you can't say the 8800gts 320 is a better card as no one knows that.
Everyone in this thread is speculating at the chance to get a good card at a good price. No need to come in here throwing things around just because you speclate that its not as good as a card currently out.
i can say that the 8800GTS 320mb is a better card because its as fast if not faster than the current 2900XT so a cut down version of the 2900XT (The 2900PRO) will be slightly slower hence not as good.
If the 2900Pro is faster than the 2900XT then ill buy 2 and sellotape them to my ears.
The Bottom Line
We hoped newer driver revisions would improve performance on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. With the newer driver we used for this evaluation we did not see any ?magic? happen when it comes to real world gaming experiences at resolutions at and above 1600x1200. The ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is not even a match for even the much less expensive and much less power hungry 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/...w2LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
Hmmmmm Thats intresting isnt it ?
i hope that after people read my posts they will now have somthing to think about before purchasing the 2900Pro.