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First R600 Review - The Radeon HD 2900XT

Posted by Zonk on from the tech-drool dept.

mrneutron2004 writes "Tweaktown seems to have the first review out of the gate on AMD's flagship R600 core. 'Our focus today is solely on the HD 2900 XT 512MB GDDR-3 graphics card – it is the first GPU with a fast 512-bit memory interface but what does this mean for performance? ... After taking a look at the GPU and the card from PowerColor as well as some new Ruby DX10 screenshots, we will move onto the benchmarks and compare the red hot flaming Radeon monster against Nvidia's GeForce 8800 GTX along with the former ATI GPU king, the Radeon X1950 XTX."

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  1. Re:Watt by jacksonj04 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because the only people who use performance GPUs are those who want to simply get as much kick as possible, be it graphics designers, gamers or medical imaging. In these situations the machines won't be sat in a rack, and power is irrelevant as long as the PSU can supply it. The heat can quite easily be dissipated from high performance desktop towers either via liquid cooling or just enormous heat sinks and fans.

    CPUs, on the other hand, are driven a large part by servers, which do sit in racks and need to run on as low power as possible, because power = heat = bad.

    One important thing to recognise is that power requirements per unit speed are actually dropping, it's just that speed increases faster than this increase in efficiency. CPUs have a slower rate of speed increase in terms of what is required of them, so power efficiency (Which is also a higher priority) has a chance to catch up.

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  2. Re:Thanks, but... by Quantam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can anybody verify that this guy knows the difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit? As far as I know CPUs don't usually live past 90 C or so, let alone 127 C.

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  3. Re:Insta-Slashdotted by heinousjay · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly how does it hurt you? Or are you just the kind of person who likes to whine whenever someone else makes money?

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  4. Re:Sounds like a fine product ... for a BOYCOTT! by Hemogoblin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And ATI have broken their word on their plan to 'support' open-source drivers, refusing to give any hardware specifications to developers, leaving them to reverse-engineer everything. Let me refer you to the Slashdot story posted two hours before this one: AMD Promises Open Source Graphics Drivers

    I won't comment on the rest of your rant.