darksideleader
Inquiry - The Dark Cheese
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depending on what benchmarks ur looking at, the x2900XT could be compariable to the GTS 640 which is also $400 value.
Reading comments about it before its release, one would've thought they would've surpassed the 8 series cards immediately, and by a fair bit if one considers some of the more enthusiastic comments made. Even as a complete newbie myself, I'm disappointed in its performance considering its late release compared to the GTX.well one thing we can be sure of, the R600 will get better with age as they improve the actually card with revB pcbs and on and with newer drivers. i dont think the 2900XT is anywhere near a crummy card, it just has some software issues. If anything I think once reliable drivers are made it will surpass the 8 series cards.
One says the card can't even keep up with performance with a 8800 GTS 320 while the other says the R600 can beat the 8800 GTX in some cases!?! One of them is right...the other is wrong...we need to find out which
MSI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB Graphics Card :: TweakTown
wow this card is doing alot better
its beats the gts and even the gtx in some cases
Half-life 2, FEAR and all other game were tested are known to run better on ATI
If you look at the benchmark for Supreme commander oblivion and STALKER, the 8800GTS beats HD2900XT
AMD's Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics processor - The Tech Report - Page 11
So, in other words HD2900XT is barely faster than 8800GTS, and it is more expensive, consume much more power, and produce a lot of noise
It depends on which game you are comparing.
For example, in STALKER 8800GTS 320MB beats HD2900XT
In other games like FEAR, HL2 the HD2900XT can beat 8800GTS 640MB
But no, the 8800GTX can destroy R600 in almost all cases.
Just look at your own benchmark. GTX performed better in all cases
i am looking at the link i posted and there is plenty of cases where the GTX is out performed by the ATI