September 30th, 2008

First results of ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

Premiere of the latest ATI compatible with DirectX 10, equipped with processors R600, is scheduled to start until May, but now networks are the first results of the strongest performance models, including a Radeon HD 2900 XT.

Flagship model and the most powerful AMD – comparable to the 8800 GTX at nVidia – will be the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX with 1GB memory GGDR4. Subsequent models from the line R600 is Radeon HD 2900 XT, the average Radeon HD 2600 series and poorest peoples series Radeon HD 2400.
You might also add that nVidia AMD plans to break even stronger premiere wypuszczając model GeForce 8800 Ultra, the relationship of prices and productivity can still change. At this moment the price of a Radeon HD 2900 XT and GeForce 8800 GTS to be comparable.

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT has 320 stream processors – for comparison, the corresponding GeForce 8800 GTS has 96 – but have noted that the draft zunifikowanej architecture AMD and nVidia are some differences.

AMD has already equipped the card ‘only’ in 512MB memory (GTS is its 640). Module of GDDR3 are strong frequency 1.65 GHz, and memory interface has a width of 512-bits (only 320-bits in the GTS nVidia).

Card is known chilled us with two X1900XTX card-slotowym module DHES.

Tests carried out on a computer equipped with a motherboard with Intel D975XBX2 BadAxe2, the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 and 2x1GB DDR2-800 MHz.
An operating system is Windows XP. ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT engineering work on Catalyst RC4 drivers 8361, while the GeForce 8800 GTS on the ForceWare 158.19 drivers.

All tests were carried out in games with the effects set to maximum, at a resolution of 1280×1024.