HD 2900XT review

[tuteja1986]

http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1314&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=7

Company of Heroes 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 53
8800GTS 640 : 15
8800GTX : 23


FEAR 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 32
8800GTS 640 : 10
8800GTX : 18


Farcry 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 43
8800GTS 640 : 25
8800GTX : 39


Oblivion 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 22
8800GTS 640 : 18
8800GTX : 20


Prey 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 32
8800GTS 640 : 17
8800GTX : 31

Stalker 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 11
8800GTS 640 : 15
8800GTX : 28


Supreme commander 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 20
8800GTS 640 : 17
8800GTX : 25

X3 8xAA/16xAF 2560x1600 :
HD2900XT : 29
8800GTS 640 : 29
8800GTX : 40

personally I think Driver still need to mature but i think its promising. Need to see more games benchmarked and some DX10 benchmarking.

 

[grohl]

:Q

 

[schneiderguy]

ATI has a 8x AA mode?

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

... This has been posted in the other thread, and is complete BS

 

[swtethan]

:roll: this is the same website that the card GAINED FPS when it was cranked up :roll:

 

[igloo15]

I thought this review was proven to be utter BS.

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy
ATI has a 8x AA mode?

They have some new AA mode, comparable to CSAA. It was on an AMD tech slide that was posted here a few days ago, but I cant find the linky.

 

[Pugnate]

Yea sorry... it was a crap link.

 

[Corporate Thug]

not sure about this one. twice as fast as the GTX in CoH @ 8xAA/16xAF, 2560x1600?

I'm skeptical .

 

[CrystalBay]

I think there are major driver problems still from both camps...

nV is doesn't seem to be suffering from frame rates, but some rendering problems.

 

[Zenoth]

Yeah but it seems to perform equally to the 8800 GTX in Prey, and the 8800 GTX beats it in three games. So if that review is "fake" then at least it tries to give some credits to G80 and not just focus on R600's "godly" performance. To my eyes that review might well be a true one.

 

[ronnn]

Yep that review really slammed the 2900xt, if accurate amd is out of the graphic business.

 

[palindrome]

Originally posted by: ronnn
Yep that review really slammed the 2900xt, if accurate amd is out of the graphic business.

Review has already been proven absolute BS.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: ronnn
Yep that review really slammed the 2900xt, if accurate amd is out of the graphic business.

You make it sound like 2900XT is priced arround 8800GTX level. it priced at $400 and is a real compititor to 8800GTS 640MB. IT also has loads more feature and better driver for vista. Also pre early DX10 benchmark show it beating up 8800GTX in crysis. Your just blined by your love for nvidia that you start to talk all the crap nvidia throws at you. Nothing more than a fanatical fanboy.

 

[Nightmare225]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: ronnn
Yep that review really slammed the 2900xt, if accurate amd is out of the graphic business.

You make it sound like 2900XT is priced arround 8800GTX level. it priced at $400 and is a real compititor to 8800GTS 640MB. IT also has loads more feature and better driver for vista. Also pre early DX10 benchmark show it beating up 8800GTX in crysis. Your just blined by your love for nvidia that you start to talk all the crap nvidia throws at you. Nothing more than a fanatical fanboy.

Certain others are blinded for their love of ATI and take whatever positive "review" they can find as godly truth.

You know what I mean.

EDIT: Love how all the positive benchmarks are put at the top in order to make ATI fans want to jump on it. But then they get to the bottom, and... Who cares, these aren't even real... :disgust:

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: Nightmare225

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: ronnn
Yep that review really slammed the 2900xt, if accurate amd is out of the graphic business.

You make it sound like 2900XT is priced arround 8800GTX level. it priced at $400 and is a real compititor to 8800GTS 640MB. IT also has loads more feature and better driver for vista. Also pre early DX10 benchmark show it beating up 8800GTX in crysis. Your just blined by your love for nvidia that you start to talk all the crap nvidia throws at you. Nothing more than a fanatical fanboy.

Certain others are blinded for their love of ATI and take whatever positive "review" they can find as godly truth.

You know what I mean.

EDIT: Love how all the positive benchmarks are put at the top in order to make ATI fans want to jump on it. But then they get to the bottom, and... Who cares, these aren't even real... :disgust:

lol i didnt even see that

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

IT also has loads more feature and better driver for vista.

you have one in your hands right now that you can compare to the 8800's in terms of driver support? not that it would take much to have better vista drivers than the 8800 did at it's launch

Also pre early DX10 benchmark show it beating up 8800GTX in crysis.

k.

Your just blined by your love for nvidia that you start to talk all the crap nvidia throws at you. Nothing more than a fanatical fanboy.

funny, substitue "nvidia" for "ati" in that sentence and it would fit perfectly on you

 

[Nightmare225]

BTW, STALKER can't do AA.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Nightmare225
BTW, STALKER can't do AA.

you can move the slider all the way to the right and performance will definitely drop

a lot ...

maybe there is "some" effect ....


other then the FPS hit
:roll:

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: ronnn
Yep that review really slammed the 2900xt, if accurate amd is out of the graphic business.

You make it sound like 2900XT is priced arround 8800GTX level. it priced at $400 and is a real compititor to 8800GTS 640MB. IT also has loads more feature and better driver for vista. Also pre early DX10 benchmark show it beating up 8800GTX in crysis. Your just blined by your love for nvidia that you start to talk all the crap nvidia throws at you. Nothing more than a fanatical fanboy.

I strongly disagree with your assertion that the X2900 will have better drivers. You dont know that.

ATi is in the same situation nvidia was, new OS (actually 2 if you count x86-64), new API, new driver model, new hardware.

 

[Fox5]

This benchies could be true, they're run at such resolutions and AA settings that the memory bus of the R600 would really come into play over the g80.

 

[apoppin]

it would be *difficult* to have worse drivers

i bet that AMDs will be *more* mature than nvidias ... they have had THIRTEEN [or more] revisions ... r600 has "been here" a long time

i am gonna go out on a limb ...
what's new?


just say it's their experience helping MS "develop the driver at the heart of Vista"
:roll:

 

[the Chase]

How do these scores compare with DailyTechs? Any overlapping games used? (Will have to look up).

http://www.dailytech.com/ATI+Radeon+HD+...+Doomed+from+the+Start/article7052.htm

After looking at the 1900x1200 results(to take the Q6700 CPU that DT used out of the equation a little bit) this review seems pretty accurate and shows the 2900XT in a better light than the DT benchmarks if anything.

With the exception of the COH game in which the AA/AF wasn't being applied to the 2900XT(it sounds like they concluded this?) these benchmarks might not be too far off.

How have these been determined BS? The photo does show the guy with like 4 of the cards....Photochopped?

 

[apoppin]

they really don't

some games overlap ... not the testbed or the resolutions

 

[BFG10K]

Bad news if those results are true.

ATI has a 8x AA mode?

Yes, according to the slides they have 8xMSAA like nVidia.

you can move the slider all the way to the right and performance will definitely drop

Performance only drops under the static path. Under dynamic there is no performance drop because the slider does nothing.

In any case the slider doesn't do AA like was presented in the article.