AMD's Radeon HD 2900 XT Reviewed

J. Dzhugashvili writes "The folks at The Tech Report have whipped up a detailed expose of the new AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card's architecture and features, with plenty of benchmarks. While the card dazzles with 320 stream processors, a 512-bit memory bus, and oodles of memory bandwidth, its performance and power consumption seem disappointing in the face of Nvidia's six-month-old GeForce 8800 graphics cards."

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Re:Let's hope

[MukiMuki]

To the parent : Oh man, if only. That's been my major gripes about most review sites :

1. There are games out there other than FEAR, Doom3/Quake4, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and Oblivion. In fact, there's a FUCK-TON more games than that. Go to PC IGN or gamespot or something for FIVE MINUTES OF YOUR DAY and find at least ONE game that everyone and their dog hasn't seen figures for.
2. Nothing pisses me off more than a review for a bottom-of-the-barrel budget card where the test system runs like two fucking grand. This was more of a problem a few years ago, with the GeForce 2MX, when not having a maxed-out PIII or P4 made a DRASTIC difference in the lack of a T&L unit on a comparably priced board, a difference we never saw because the test system was the nicest thing out on the street. Seriously, that shit needs to STOP.

To the grandparent :

Sadly, this drove prices UP. (literally, the day the HD 2900 came out, the cheapest GeForce 8800GTS 320MB, which was hovering steady at 280, jumped to 300 everywhere). =(

Question is, I wonder if the HD 2900 will tip the scales when DX10 games come out. It seems to me that the SuperScalar vs Scalar architecture differences would tip in AMD's favor when they get bombarded by the shader overload that DX10 games promise.