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?"
doesnt look too hot. (Score:5, Insightful)
Fast enough ? (Score:4, Insightful)
Honestly... (Score:5, Insightful)
Usable links (Score:1, Insightful)
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My 2 cents (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No AGP versions of the 1800 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What really matters (Score:3, Insightful)
SLI Quad Royale (Score:2, Insightful)
==Nuclear Power Now!==
The best thing (Score:4, Insightful)
Where's the AGP?! (Score:3, Insightful)
Because good linux drivers are important ... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:What really matters (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm no 3D API programmer, but my ignorant gut feeling says it's the drivers. I mean, in this perspective OpenGL and D3D are just different ways of telling the hardware to do the same thing, aren't they?
ATI R520: "Hmmm, I'm told to draw this line. OK, here we go... Hey, wait a minute! That was OpenGL who said that, not Direct3D! I'll shuffle this down the SLOW pipeline! Now I wouldn't mind taking five with a cup of coffee and a smoke."
Then again, if it's just the drivers, how come ATI don't just f-ing fix them (for Windows at least, I no longer have any illusions about their Linux "support") instead of staying well-deservedly infamous -- for as long as I have known their products -- for being slow on OGL?
Re:Honestly... (Score:4, Insightful)
What?
Oh, no, I'm not impressed with this card. I'm impressed with the opportunity that ATI will jump totally on this bandwagon, thus reducing dramatically the prices for all their other cards that are from previous generations but offer nearly identical performance.
W00t for the bleeding edge, and the price breaks behind the curve!
Re:doesnt look too hot. (Score:3, Insightful)
If they had been released at the same time, it would be a tougher decision but as it is now why would you pay more money for equal, possibly even slightly less performance?
Re:Never Again ATI (Score:3, Insightful)
I can't really say it I'll never buy another ATI card since I have never purchased one. I have friends who swear by them, but I've been running NVidia cards for over 7 years now and they have never let me down. So unless NVidia pulls a 3DFX like when the T&L cards were coming out and they didn't support it in their product which was months late. I think I'll stick with what's worked for me.
Re:Difference Between OpenGL and D3D (Score:1, Insightful)
I don't know where to begin. OK, I'll begin with reminding the parent poster that the thread is about why OGL is SLOWER, not faster, on ATI hardware.