ATI Launches Radeon X1900 XT and XTX

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.'"

Comments

Wow

[thepotoo]

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?

Re:Wow

[BenjyD]

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

Re:Wow

[Surt]

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.

Linux Drivers

[killeena]

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