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ATI Announces 512MB Graphics Card

Posted by timothy on from the overkill-it-harder dept.

Annoyed.Gamer writes "Today ATI announced their first 512MB graphics card, the X800 XL 512MB. I have some systems that don't have more than 512MB of system memory, much less on a graphics card. According to AnandTech, the 512MB card can't outperform its 256MB counterpart and costs 50% more. ATI's favorite Half Life 2 showed the only real performance increase in the entire article. Overall a disappointment, especially because ATI for some reason didn't outfit their highest end GPUs with 512MBs, only the mid-range X800 XL."

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  1. out of hand by Kaamoss · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Things are getting somewhat out of hand as far as graphics cards. It seems like every 4-6 months there is a new line of cards out with slightly better specs in the 500 or so price range. I have a GeForce Ti4800 128mb and it runs all of my games, including doom3 and halflife two just fine. I'm not sure how people even justify the cost to them selves.

  2. it's funny.. laugh.. by Fry-kun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    sounds like the author could use this little gem: http://kerneltrap.org/node/143 :)

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  3. Possibly it will be used on the Mac by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Interesting


    With Quartz 2D Extreme (marketing!) putting the entire rendering of the display onto the graphics card as an OpenGL surface, and lots of the display-rendering code itself being stored there as well, you can never have too much RAM - especially with the composition manager etc. all eating up gobs of it...

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