ATi Radeon X1K Graphics Launched, Benchmarked 199
MojoDog writes "ATi has officially launched
their all new Radeon X1000 family of 3D Graphics cards this morning and
a full showcase with benchmarks of the entire line-up can be found at
HotHardware. What may or may not be surprising to you, is the fact
that the new high-end flagship X1800 is still a 16 pixel pipe GPU but now
running at a blistering 625MHz.
Is it fast enough to catch NVIDIA's 24 pipe GeForce 7800 GTX?"
Re:What are you up to? (Score:2, Informative)
It happens to logged-in users with low karma too.
All in one page without the ads (Score:5, Informative)
No AGP versions of the 1800 (Score:1, Informative)
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http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603 [hexus.net]
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Power requirements: The key (Score:5, Informative)
Most people are worried about price, availability and not what counts with ATI cards nowadays: Power. I bought an X850 AGP and the power requirements are absolutely ridiculous. Surely, my Antec 550w can handle it, but it's completely unnecessary, as shown by nVidia. I don't like the idea of having to put aside an extra $10 a month to power my graphics behemoth, although I do love the performance.
Re:What really matters (Score:5, Informative)
In the last release ATI has a graphical installer which sorta worked, but I still had to compile the fglrx modules which would be a pain for a complete noob. It's too bad that the ati control panel is really only useful for configuring dual monitors and confirming that opengl is working. It would have be nice to have the plethora of opengl features the windows control panel has. You still have to edit the xorg.conf for a few things.
Re:What really matters (Score:3, Informative)
Re:doesnt look too hot. (Score:3, Informative)
At the lower end though you're right, the 1600 and 1300 models aren't very strong contenders. But given the lower number of pipes on the X1800 (16), theoretically this chipset has ALOT more headroom if it goes to 24 or 32 down the road.
Re:Where's the AGP?! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Power requirements: The key (Score:3, Informative)
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/radeon-x1000
(Idle/Load)
7800GT: 112 / 204
X1800XL: 144 / 207
7800GTX: 129 / 225
X1800XT: 173 / 250
Difference Between OpenGL and D3D (Score:3, Informative)