ATI Radeon X1800 GTO Launched

SippinTea writes "ATI has also hastened to market with a launch of their own this week, with a new Performance Mid-Range Graphics Card. The Radeon X1800 GTO is a chopped-down version of the Radeon X1800 XL with 12 pixel pipelines and less expensive, lower speed GDDR3 DRAM on board. It compares well with the new GeForce 7600GT but can it compete with a GeForce 7900GT for only a few dollars more?"

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Finally proof!!

[B5_geek]

I am offically an Old-Fart(tm).

I looked at this and I thought, "so what, how many fps do kids need in their games anyways?"
Then the exact next thought was: "Bah the drivers are still fubar in linux so why should I care."
3rd: "How many /.'ers will make the same comments?"

So offically, pass me a hat. I quit.
Ahh games I do miss them so (the best FPS will always be StarSeige Tribes), and eye-candy; nah it'll probably slow down my compile times.

Why?

[Vo0k]

I once set Q3Arena to deathmatch, one of the void maps, against bots. 300 of them. Frag limit bumped to something like 500 and it wasn't much. The game was completely crazy but incredibly fun. With some luck you lived 10 or 15 seconds, the trick was not to not be killed but to frag at least two before you get fragged. The saw glove appeared to be extremely good weapon because at a good location you could run through a row of 30 or so bots shooting each others' backs, and get 30 frags in a row.

The problem? It was running at about 5 FPS.
Now I'd like to get a card that would enable this kind of gameplay at reasonable speed. Crowded cities, armies of troopers, hordes of demons. Power in numbers, not detail. Completely new gameplay style. Screw high degree of reality, allow me to perform a multi-kill of 40 with one shot.

LOL still u are wrong

[rahulkool]

all ATi X1xxx series hardware is 90nm too .... they shifted to 90nm before nvidia.

Re:Linux drivers?

[Illissius]

Grandparent was confusing things; it's AIGLX which relies on an extension the ATi drivers don't have (texture-from-pixmap), not XGL. XGL just requires a working OpenGL implementation, iirc. (AIGLX and XGL are basically two very different ways of acheiving the same awesome.)

And the fact is, you should know better anyway, you cannot expect Linux support from the latest and greatest hardware for such a minority of users when a good percentage of the market is still Windows based, thus being where the games are and ultimately, the money.

I can accept that, to a point, but not to the point of 5 months. The Radeon X1000 series was released 5 months ago, and there have been exactly zero Linux drivers for it since then, neither 2D, 3D, proprietary nor open. By comparison, nVidia usually gets drivers out in a matter of days, or a week or two at most. (And not to even mention that their drivers match the performance of their Windows counterparts (as they share the same codebase), whereas with ATi's Linux drivers, their highest end cards routinely get outrun by nVidia's midrange offerings...)