SWEETNESS!! New ATi cards! still only 16 pipes but sweet speeds!!

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The top-of-the-line Radeon X1800XT will be available as of the 5th of November shipping at a 625MHz core and 1500MHz memory frequency. Offered with 256MB and 512MB of GDDR3 memory it will be priced at $499 and $549 respectively. The Radeon X1800XL will be available on October 5th and offers a 500MHz core and 1GHz memory frequency and comes with 256MB of GDDR3 memory with a price tag of $449. All of the Radeon X1800 graphics cards utilize the full 16-pipelines, they’re just different in terms of memory size and clock speed or both in the case of the Radeon X1800 XL.

The mid-range Radeon X1600XT ships with either 128MB or 256MB of memory, clocks in at a 590MHz core and 1.38GHz memory frequency and can be bought starting November 30th for respectively $199 and $249. All of the Radeon X1600 graphics cards will have to make do with just 12-pipelines. The low-end Radeon X1300 will be offered in three different versions, the $149 Radeon X1300 Pro with 256MB of memory and 600MHz core and 800MHz memory clocks. The $99 and $129 Radeon X1300 with 450MHz core and 500MHz memory clocks and 128MB or 256MB of memory respectively. And closing the ranks is the Radeon X1300 HyperMemory at $79 with 32MB HyperMemory and 450MHz core and 1GHz memory clocks.

The Radeon X1300 Pro and X1300 will be available on October 5th and sadly they will feature only 4 pipelines. Unfortunately no dates have been given for the Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition or the Radeon X1600 CrossFire Edition. What is clear, though, is that the Radeon 1300 will not feature a CrossFire Edition card, it’ll utilize the PCIe bus for communication. Both the Radeon X1800 and X1600 CrossFire Edition will support resolutions up to 2046x1536 pixels with a 70Hz refresh, negating some of the limitations of CrossFire on the Xx00 platform.

This was taken from http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1817/
 
I think I'll stick with nVidia. There's nothing wrong with these cards but whats the point, they are essentially x800s with SM3 and other minor improvements. In my opinion they aren't worth the price tag.
 
lol...and all the ATi fans were saying the new release cards would SMASH nVidia's competition. at least early on they were. i will agree with Cromewell, and say i fail to see any MAJOR imporvements which deem it worthy of the higher price tag.
 
Aww man.... If only I had waited a bit before buying my 7800... ahh well, its not that much better than the 7xxx seires.
 
$450 isnt bad, maybe for christmas I'll get one, hmmmm.... they look really nice, and I'm an ATI fan :P
 
well.. id hoped they would be a bit better. dont get me wrong, it shurely does look nice. but then the release of the 7800ULTRA would be certain :P
 
its not that much better than the 7xxx seires.
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You mean worse? Other than clock speed the cards appear to be inferior in every way to a 7800 (clock speed is essetially negated by the higher pipecount).
 
come on guys, you cant honestly say that your going by JUST clock speed, thats like saying that the 3.8GHz P4 is better then the 2.8GHz FX-57.... i tried testing this already on benchmarking.. my friend has a 6800Ultra and he lowered his clock to the same MHz as my 5700 and his card whooped the shit out of mine because of its better architecture then my 5700.... the ATI might be better, but like i have been saying for months, nVidia is waiting to release its Ultra version of the 7800GTX.... then uless im missing something, the "crossfire" isnt with the high end X1800XT, when the 7800Ultra will have SLI, or they might even release the 8XXX series.... save your money for about 2 months or less and ATI will be decimated...
 
before i decide what card to buy, i want to see some benchmarks between that and the 7800gtx.

also, why did nvidia go from making cards such as the 6200, 6600, 6800, then jumping all the way to a 7800?
 
geoff5093 said:
also, why did nvidia go from making cards such as the 6200, 6600, 6800, then jumping all the way to a 7800?
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I think that might just be a marketing scheme, the bigger the number, the better people think it is, even if they dont know crap about computers.
 
skidude said:
I think that might just be a marketing scheme, the bigger the number, the better people think it is, even if they dont know crap about computers.
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i know that, but why did they make such a huge gap?
 
It's a generational number with the model attached. 7800 is the 7th generation top end design (800) with odd numbers not being used (yet) 800 is the max before 8000. They seem to have gone to a 'standard' numbering system away from the FX days.
 
lol, sell sheet. i wouldn't trust those results, it's obvious that it's designed to promote ATi's cards. look at what scoreds they give the 7800GTX, a flat line 100%, but the X1800 is supposedly almost TWICE as fast in some tests, and beats it in every single benchmark they ran...i don't believe it.
 
I wouldn't trust them completely but it seems that the fastest ones are at LEAST as fast as the 7800GTX. A lot of those game bench's use games that are optimised for ATi. look at Half-Life 2, a normal X800 could beat 2 6800GT's in SLi in that game because of the ATi optimization. Here is a link to some HL2 benchs' http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050524/vga_charts-05.html.
As for the 7800GTX given a 100% that was to compare it as a standard of performance as to say how much more the card is faster than the 7800GTX.
 
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