Benchmarks for ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT- A big disappointment

I'm loving how everyone says it's a worser card. Last time I checked no DX10 games were out. So, the question of "Who pwns who" is still up for grabs. Until Crysis comes out I think these DX9 benchmarks on DX10 video cards are quite irrelevant.

Another thing I wish to point out is the lack of good drivers for the HD line-up, as well as ABSURD numbers with the GTX. It's over-clocked, what more do you expect? Take the flag-ship, make it more powerful, and what do you expect to happen to it?

Point is the card isn't even out yet, no one has a CONCLUSIVE benchmark let alone anything definitive. No, I'm no fanboy, I own an NVIDIA card and love it to death, but seriously this little video card war thing is getting out of hand. The moment I sense DailyTech/Anandtech turning into THG is the instant I unplug the RJ45 cord out the back of my PC.

EDIT: Hmm..surprising to see. Look at those resolutions! Call me insane but it looks to me as though DailyTech is trying to skew the results in favor of NVIDIA. Not that I don't mind, but I hate bias and honestly that's why i left THG. Those resolutions and the given frame rates are perfectly fine. After really going over that article I'd say the HD cards are going to be good and perform just fine, well, assuming people benchmark apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
 
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liquidshadow said:
That's not reliable at all...In one of the benchmarks, the HD2900XTX scores lower than the XT....:rolleyes:
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Maybe the 1GB ram in XTX has slowed it down... Remember that sometimes more memory can decrease the performance in some cases....

But I don't agree with you that the benchmarks are not reliable, because the XTX may get delayed to June, and thats because ATI are afraid that it may not beat GTX, if they don't do any improvements to XTX
 
The article you posted makes the assumption that the XTX will not be released at all.. and i agree. There is no reason to release two identical cards, period. Unless the GDDR4 is proved to make a difference in DX10 games i say it should be canned. Besides the real battle is going to be between the middle-end cards, HD2600 and the 8600's.
 
ain't that what i said? Nevertheless benching a new card with older technology is a no-duh.. Unless for some reason R600 is crippled in some way rendering DX9, we are looking at perfectly justified benchies.
 
JustinMcG67 said:
I'm loving how everyone says it's a worser card. Last time I checked no DX10 games were out. So, the question of "Who pwns who" is still up for grabs. Until Crysis comes out I think these DX9 benchmarks on DX10 video cards are quite irrelevant.

Another thing I wish to point out is the lack of good drivers for the HD line-up, as well as ABSURD numbers with the GTX. It's over-clocked, what more do you expect? Take the flag-ship, make it more powerful, and what do you expect to happen to it?

Point is the card isn't even out yet, no one has a CONCLUSIVE benchmark let alone anything definitive. No, I'm no fanboy, I own an NVIDIA card and love it to death, but seriously this little video card war thing is getting out of hand. The moment I sense DailyTech/Anandtech turning into THG is the instant I unplug the RJ45 cord out the back of my PC.

EDIT: Hmm..surprising to see. Look at those resolutions! Call me insane but it looks to me as though DailyTech is trying to skew the results in favor of NVIDIA. Not that I don't mind, but I hate bias and honestly that's why i left THG. Those resolutions and the given frame rates are perfectly fine. After really going over that article I'd say the HD cards are going to be good and perform just fine, well, assuming people benchmark apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
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I agree 100% with this post. I say anyone who thinks these are definitive are crazy, you cannot compare a released card to an unreleased card, period. When they come out, then I will believe the benchmarks.

I'm quite interested in the 8600/HD2600 battle, since I'm getting one of those:cool:
 
i dont believe the benchmarks previously posted aswell. that is tested with a prototype and also look at all the publicity the ATi 26** series has got. theres no way in hell that ati would release such a disappointing piece of crap that cant beat the 2nd best card out now - 8800gts.

Master Mind
 
true that i hope the ati does better so they dont go to much out of business because nvidias dx10 has been out for a while i like nvidia better but its my opinion
 
IMO, if these benchmarks are true, Nvidia truly wins. I doubt they are true, ATI is probably self-conscious to release them, since Nvidia has the Ultra.
 
hermeslyre said:
ain't that what i said? Nevertheless benching a new card with older technology is a no-duh.. Unless for some reason R600 is crippled in some way rendering DX9, we are looking at perfectly justified benchies.
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Altough I do agree that DX10 cards have to be tested on DX10 too.. lets not forget that most games we will play in a while to come will still be 'only' dx9.0c. so also the DX9 benchmarks and tests matter, or at least to me they do.
anyways, speculating is nice, but I dont see why everyone goes into that this is better than that discussion. Maroon1 only posted something he read, so lets not make this a ati vs. nvidia thread too :)
It looks trustworthy to me, but ofcourse I want to see more, so keep it updated here :D
 
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