ATi Radeon X1K Graphics Launched, Benchmarked

MojoDog writes "ATi has officially launched their all new Radeon X1000 family of 3D Graphics cards this morning and a full showcase with benchmarks of the entire line-up can be found at HotHardware. What may or may not be surprising to you, is the fact that the new high-end flagship X1800 is still a 16 pixel pipe GPU but now running at a blistering 625MHz. Is it fast enough to catch NVIDIA's 24 pipe GeForce 7800 GTX?"

Comments

Re:What are you up to?

[rylin]

Because you're posting as an AC.
It happens to logged-in users with low karma too.

All in one page without the ads

[neosake]

Here it is in printable version

No AGP versions of the 1800

[Anonymous Coward]

Since they are not doing an AGP version (which they were initially going to do) of the 1800 I could care less. ATI has forced me back towards Nvidia

Other Articles with a bit More Depth

[Vigile]

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=172

http://www.techreport.com/

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODIy

http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/r520/

Links to other "Reviews"

[Anonymous Coward]

Listed alphabetically so no preference to which site is good or not.

http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/r520/
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/r520reviewxvxv /
http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/262/
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODIy
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews /ati_radeon_x1800_x1600preview
http://www.noticias3d.com/articulo.asp?idarticulo= 527
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=172
http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=407
http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/8864

Power requirements: The key

[dauthur]

"What may or may not be surprising to you, is the fact that the new high-end flagship X1800 is still a 16 pixel pipe GPU but now running at a blistering 625MHz. Is it fast enough to catch NVIDIA's 24 pipe GeForce 7800 GTX?"

Most people are worried about price, availability and not what counts with ATI cards nowadays: Power. I bought an X850 AGP and the power requirements are absolutely ridiculous. Surely, my Antec 550w can handle it, but it's completely unnecessary, as shown by nVidia. I don't like the idea of having to put aside an extra $10 a month to power my graphics behemoth, although I do love the performance.

Re:Power requirements: The key

[heli0]

Here are some power consumption figures:

http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/radeon-x1000/ index.x?pg=16
 

We measured total system power consumption at the wall socket using a watt meter. The monitor was plugged into a separate outlet, so its power draw was not part of our measurement. The idle measurements were taken at the Windows desktop, and cards were tested under load running a loop of 3DMark05's "Firefly Forest" test at 1280x1024 resolution.

(Idle/Load)
7800GT: 112 / 204
X1800XL: 144 / 207
7800GTX: 129 / 225
X1800XT: 173 / 250

Re:What really matters

[bigtrouble77]

The linux drivers have come a long way. I've been using the latest 32bit drivers with good success. On my mobile Radeon9700 I average 2500fps in glxgears in ubuntu. Maya seems to be working pretty well too, although I haven't tried any really complex scenes yet.

In the last release ATI has a graphical installer which sorta worked, but I still had to compile the fglrx modules which would be a pain for a complete noob. It's too bad that the ati control panel is really only useful for configuring dual monitors and confirming that opengl is working. It would have be nice to have the plethora of opengl features the windows control panel has. You still have to edit the xorg.conf for a few things.

Re:What really matters

[slummy]

From experience, the proprietary Linux drivers that ATI provides aren't that great. They're still very buggy. I've had good success with the open source ATI drivers.

Re:doesnt look too hot.

[Ubergrendle]

I don't think it will be *that* bad. Other sites like DriverHeaven are giving a marginal nod of the X1800XT over the 7800GTX even with the new Nvidia drivers. One thing that Nvidia has been fortunate about is by getting to market 6 mos earlier, they have 6 mos of driver tweaking to boost their performance. I trust ATI driver development more than Nvidia ,and suspect a similar 5-10% boost over the lifetime of the card will occur.

At the lower end though you're right, the 1600 and 1300 models aren't very strong contenders. But given the lower number of pipes on the X1800 (16), theoretically this chipset has ALOT more headroom if it goes to 24 or 32 down the road.

Re:Where's the AGP?!

[antime]

Keep in mind that these are only ATI's reference cards. The actual chips are compatible with AGP bridges, so it's almost certain some card manufacturer will make AGP versions of these. It's only a question of when and for how much.

Difference Between OpenGL and D3D

[Khyber]

Very simple. OpenGL is hardware-based, hence faster. D3D requires the OS to interpret the instructions, translate thru the OS's API, *THEN* send the info to the card. OpenGl doesn't do this, henceforth, it's faster. Why do you think Doom3 did OpenGL instead of Direct3D??? OpenGL is directly to hardware, without stupid OS interrupts/translation needing to happen.