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ATi Radeon X1K Graphics Launched, Benchmarked

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pixels-are-good dept.

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?"

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  1. What really matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How are the Linux drivers?

  2. X1000?? by Serengeti · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why do naming schemes suck, anymore??

    X1000? I thought the "X" in "X800" was there because those video cards were the generation after "9800" and "9700"... Whats next, OSX11?

    Intel, AMD, ATI, nVidia... Mazda... they're all driving me nuts with their product naming schemes, lately...

  3. No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is not the hardware it's the software. And our understanding of how to write decent software. ATI's drivers while 'fairly good' still suck horrible for some rudmentary taskst. For example ever seen how crappy a ATI mobil chip makes a video from your laptop to a TV set look?

  4. Re:All in one page without the ads by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Today's winner of the Roland Piquopalliehsasdflkj Honorary Blogger Self-Promotion award is: Mojo-Dog. Special kudos go to slashdot editors, who continue to accept slashvertising as real "submssions".

    In honor of this award, we are now providing a special slashdot effect to Mojo-Dog's server. Guess sometimes that self-promotion backfires, doesn't it?

  5. Leafblowers by jandrese · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The X1800 engineering sample card pictured in the article is double high and has a giant blower on the top of it. I wonder how long it'll be before we get a card that comes with an external fan attachment that you have to hang off of the back of your case?

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  6. Who cares? by jitterysquid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there some current game that demands that much performance?
    Once you're gaming at 100fps 1600x1200 with all the bells and whistles, why do you need a new card (or pair of cards)?

    Is there some game in the pipes that will actually use all the fancy features that these cards have?

  7. Paper Launch Part 2 by DeadBugs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's been noted on many sites that these cards are not available for sale yet. ATI has been getting hammered lately over their decision to "paper launch" crossfire, while telling review sites that they would be in stores. Don't expect to see these cards for at least a month.

    http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2550

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  8. Never Again ATI by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It took 8 months from my last PC purchase for them to support PCIE on Linux (If I'd gone for a slightly less "high end" model with nvidia it would have worked from day 1) and their latest quirk is that if you install their latest X.org firegl driver on Debian by using alien --to-tgz, then detarring the tar file at the root level, it'll change permissions on every directory it writes in to to 0700. You may then find that your regular user account can't, say, run ls. Fortunately fixing that isn't too hard once you figrued out what caused it. I'd file a bug with them but you have to register on their web site and "Debian isn't supported." It'll be a cold day in hell before I put another piece of ATI hardware in one of my systems.

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