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ATI Launches Radeon X1900 XT and XTX

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pixels-and-polygons-and-processors-oh-my dept.

Steve from HEXUS writes "ATI have done more than just boost clock speeds for their latest GPU; they've concentrated on boosting particular aspects of the GPU. This doesn't necessarily mean a boost in performance in all apps, however. HEXUS has a review: 'Even current synthetic benchmarks designed to show off theoretical rates in 3D hardware can have a hard time exploiting the tripling in fragment processing ability. That's not to say the performance increases at the same clocks as R520 are invisible. Clearly they're not without increases, especially at the higher resolutions, of up to 30% in the games we tested, clock-for-clock.'"

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  1. Wow by thepotoo · · Score: 3, Insightful
    These cards are drasticly improved over the previous ones...In a lot of game they get up to double the frame rate as on the old cards. And even then they're complaining that it was running at only 72% capacity. Geez.

    Now, can someone track down pricing info for these cards?

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    1. Re:Wow by BenjyD · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Around $550-$600 according to Froogle. Or, in more sensible units: 6 Gamecubes, 4 PS2s or 1.5 XBox 360s.

    2. Re:Wow by wild_berry · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Now, can someone track down pricing info for these cards?

      It's an ATi launch. So there will be prices, but the shipping date's the real mystery.

    3. Re:Wow by Surt · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And what bugs me about those commercials. It's actually about 3000 crispy chicken nuggets for the video card, and his wife looks like $200,000.

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  2. Linux Drivers by killeena · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am sure the cards are great and all, but us Linux users would never know due to the drivers.

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    1. Re:Linux Drivers by bhima · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Bah... outside of like Quake 9 or something, neither will the Windows users...

      How many apps are even using *part* of the current crop of GPUs?

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    2. Re:Linux Drivers by Surt · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Nearly every game launched in the last year actually has options that will look better or be more playable (meaninful increase in framerate) with the best card setup you can buy. Whether these cards allow you to crank your resolution to 1920x1200 (Even civ4 is unplayable on my goforce 6800 at that res) or turn on all the eye candy, there's something nice you can get in nearly every case.

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  3. Who cares? Stupid paper launches by dj42 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Barely faster than my overclocked 7800GT @ 520Mhz/1.19Ghz. I'm sure a properly overclocked nVidia GTX would be just fine, at a much lower cost, by the time ATI can figure out how to push volume. And at the rate nVidia is beating up on ATI, I find their ability to upset them highly suspect in the near-term. Video cards are stupid. They come out every 18 months with something at least twice as good. They will always cost like $400-$800 for the newest one. Get over it. Why do people bother with these stupid paper launches?

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