First HD2900XT benchmarks are out

[AquariusX]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7043

 

[5150Joker]

Man the XT pummels the GTS pretty bad in some of those tests. If it sells for the same price as GTS, nVidia is going to have to do some drastic price cuts to stay competitive.

 

[Polish3d]

Looks like they did a good job

 

[Ulfhednar]

I love it, but two things bug me.

1.) Anyone notice how the cooler is almost identical to the 8800 cooler?
A good thing, I like the 8800 cooler very much.

2.) What happened to this HDMI connector with HDMI audio?
A bad thing, I was really looking forward to this.

 

[aka1nas]

DT was implying that the street price for the XT will be $499, which is the MSRP for the 8800GTS. If so, that is pretty disappointing as I don't think I've EVER seen the GTS go for anywhere near that much.

 

[Nightmare225]

Looks ok. However, the half-year delay will end up hurting them...

 

[coolpurplefan]

wow, that made me horny. Thanks.

Even though AMD's stock might take a temporary hit from the news they're selling bonds, I know now they're not going to hell. This is good.

 

[aka1nas]

Hehe, were you guys all staying up late for R600 news too?

 

[Deadalus]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
Hehe, were you guys all staying up late for R600 news too?

Staying up late? It's 11am for me...

 

[Nightmare225]

Can we see how it compares to the GTX? Thats what really interests me.
I already know the 3DMarks will be close because I've seen some for a similarly-equipped system with a GTX...

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Cool, but I'd like to know a little bit more specifically than "maximum detail settings"

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: Nightmare225
Can we see how it compares to the GTX? Thats what really interests me.
I already know the 3DMarks will be close because I've seen some for a similarly-equipped system with a GTX...

For that we have to wait for the XTX, not the XT

 

[Nightmare225]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Cool, but I'd like to know a little bit more specifically than "maximum detail settings"

Don't you think 1280x1024 is a little odd for testing such high-end cards?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: Nightmare225

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Cool, but I'd like to know a little bit more specifically than "maximum detail settings"

Don't you think 1280x1024 is a little odd for testing such high-end cards?

Not if they were running insane AA numbers. Look at those results, there's no way those cards should be getting results that low with such a resolution.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: Nightmare225

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Cool, but I'd like to know a little bit more specifically than "maximum detail settings"

Don't you think 1280x1024 is a little odd for testing such high-end cards?

The 512-bit bus card will plummel the 320-bit card even further at higher resolutions.

 

[coolpurplefan]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
Hehe, were you guys all staying up late for R600 news too?

No, I replaced a motherboard and placed it in another case. I can tell you the Silverstone LC20 is a real nice desktop case. The two Coolermaster 80mm LED fans in the back are really pumping the air out. I have a Zalman 7000 with a little bit of Arctic Silver Ceramique on a Clawhammer 754 3700+ and it's only around 35'C. My motherboard and Samsung HD are also cool. Man, I'm relieved.

 

[BFG10K]

1.) Anyone notice how the cooler is almost identical to the 8800 cooler?
A good thing, I like the 8800 cooler very much.

Agreed.

Not if they were running insane AA numbers.

I wonder what AA level they were using? It's likely more than 4x but it has to be a setting that nVidia supports so I'm guessing it might be 8xMSAA.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

Originally posted by: Nightmare225

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Cool, but I'd like to know a little bit more specifically than "maximum detail settings"

Don't you think 1280x1024 is a little odd for testing such high-end cards?

exactly what i thought. my 8800gts 320 plays every games maxed at 12x10 and its playable .i really don't see why they bothered to bench it at 12x10.

oh yeah lok in the comment they say they had no display capable of more than 12x10 available in the facility.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: tanishalfelven

Originally posted by: Nightmare225

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Cool, but I'd like to know a little bit more specifically than "maximum detail settings"

Don't you think 1280x1024 is a little odd for testing such high-end cards?

exactly what i thought. my 8800gts 320 plays every games maxed at 12x10 and its playable .i really don't see why they bothered to bench it at 12x10.

oh yeah lok in the comment they say they had no display capable of more than 12x10 available in the facility.

Let's face it, AT video reviews are more or less a joke these days.

 

[Cookie Monster]

The workstation benches look very fishy to me.

Looks like the XT will perform on par with the GTX, trading blows almost all across the board methinks. Its sad how they compared a 8800GTS which although has an MSRP of $499, its street price is MUCH lower than that. Around ~$399 area give or take ~$50 dollars. The funny this is that the 640mb looks like its being phased out for something else. (8800GT?)

But all in all, the R600 looks promising, although total annihilation wouldve been even better.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I want to see it run Crysis.

Until then: meh!

 

[Polish3d]

We need some new games to play these on. I'm still playing BF2 and Oblivion

 

[otispunkmeyer]

nice all we need now is the IQ comparison tests....thats where its at for me.

 

[Ackmed]

Not a review really, but nice to see some info. Id like to know more about IQ, NV really stepped it up with their 8800 cards, and Id like to see them compared to each other. And numbers ran with IQ all the way up on both cards. Its not all about fps.

Originally posted by: aka1nas
DT was implying that the street price for the XT will be $499, which is the MSRP for the 8800GTS. If so, that is pretty disappointing as I don't think I've EVER seen the GTS go for anywhere near that much.

Yeah, I dont like how they worded that. While in B&M stores, they're $500, you can get them much cheaper online.

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy

Originally posted by: tanishalfelven

Originally posted by: Nightmare225

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Cool, but I'd like to know a little bit more specifically than "maximum detail settings"

Don't you think 1280x1024 is a little odd for testing such high-end cards?

exactly what i thought. my 8800gts 320 plays every games maxed at 12x10 and its playable .i really don't see why they bothered to bench it at 12x10.

oh yeah lok in the comment they say they had no display capable of more than 12x10 available in the facility.

Let's face it, AT video reviews are more or less a joke these days.

Except that these benchmarks are from DT and not AT...