Headline: The return of the King—ATI X1800XT 16pipes reaches 9972 in 3DMark 05

[sxs112]

X1800XT Spec:
Core Code: R520 (TSMC 90nm with Low-k)
Pixel Shader: 16 pipelines
Support hi-quality AVIVO
Support Shader Model 3.0, DirectX 9.0c, etc.
Support H.264 hardware acceleration
GPU Core speed: 625Mhz
Video RAM: GDDR3 512MB
Video RAM speed: 1.5Ghz
RRP: US$ 499 (256MB), US$549 (512MB)
ETA: 08/11/2005

Digital-Info received R520XT, the high-end version of X1800 family from ATI Taiwan today.


Here is a picture of the long-waiting ATI X1800XT, a real big video card


Dual-slot cooling solution is adopter as is showed in this picture


A picture of the back


A picture with the HSF ripped off


Picture of the die, here, we feel the charm of 90nm technology, it seems that the long wait is worthy


136pin FBGA Samsung GDDR3 ram chip


Ram chip model is SAMSUNG K4J52324QC-BJ12(Samsung Official Datasheet )!


Powered by the ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe that will hit the market very soon, the potential of ATI X1800XT is fully revealed



Test Setup:
CPU:AMD Athlon64 3700+(Sandiego)@ 310*9=2.8G

Cooler:Thermalright XP-120

Memory:Corsair TWINXP1024-3200XL*2

M/B:ASUS A8N32SLI-DELUXE

HDD:WD740GD

VGA:ATI X1800 XT(Core:691MHz Mem:1628MHz)

POWER:Seasonic 600W


System power consumption when idle is 276W (power factor is about 0.5, thus the idle power consumption of X1800XT is 138W)


System Power consumption when running 3DMark 05 is 323W (with pf= 0.5, the full-load power consumption of the card is 161W)


ATI Driver


3DMark05 DE9,218When test has forgotten the accent is 2.8G..... Under and so on can again put New Picture


3DMark05 OC9,973


Benchies of single card breaking 10000 will be put up later….

More and more in Digital-info

[mrlobber]

Heh, you posted it 5 minutes before the NDA was lifted

Seems to be a great card

Now the ETA doesn't impress me at all (although it was pretty much known before).

Btw, anandtech just posted news from digitimes that nVidia has scheduled the 90nm G72 for early 2006...

[4rory]

Can't wait to see those in crossfire and in the hands of our best.

[Vincentvega18]

Not looking too shabby.........

[perkam]

This thread needs a 56k warning...nice results though sxs...

Perkam

[mrlobber]

I like hardocp's review they only compared the x1800xl as thats the only card we can get for now.

Well said.

[Frodin]

System Power consumption when running 3DMark 05 is 323W (with pf= 0.5, the full-load power consumption of the card is 161W)

Holy Smoke. Isn't that like two 7800gts or a highly clocked Prescott? I'm scared.

[cantankerous]

so the X1800XL should be available now or very soon?

[GOESA]

I think its an OK result thinking about its 16 pipelines.. but its not as fast as i thought.. hope there is gonna change some thinges in the drivers..

/Grau

[Marioace]

but with filters turn down, cant figth against the 7800's even in high resolutions, where ATI always won.

[AfterClock]

but with filters turn down, cant figth against the 7800's even in high resolutions, where ATI always won.

the XTs do, and mostly win at High Res & Filters...
the XL disappointed me a lot though

[Marioace]

but the XT, is more expensive than a 7800GTX and will be avalaible in november.

mmm i'm very disappointed about the new Radeons, only the X1300 show me a better performance

[Godmyster]

Not bad at all, considering its only 16 pipes good work from ATI

[Ubermann]

I really wished they would kill Nvidia in Doom3 just so i never ever had to hear about that game again.

[AfterClock]

I really wished they would kill Nvidia in Doom3 just so i never ever had to hear about that game again.

Donate them some money so they can get the nVIDIA OpenGL drivers crew to write the OpenGL drivers for ATi.
Next one please

[Godmyster]

Doom3 is Nvidia baised, not really going to happen...

[C3]

I hate paperlaunchs and this is obviously the worst ever...After such a big delay a X1800XT paperlaunch is just
They hadn't even enough cards for the magazines and online-magazines

[G0DZILLA]

I don't see why it matters, its like picking to see who goes first with the bat when we were kids, but now the bat is like never ending, they will just go on topping eachother. Which is never a bad thing, besides our wallets taking a beating.

[einCe]

lol look at this typo on ati's website

"The new features of the Radeon X1800 XT - dynamic branching, full HDR support with full screen AA - means that we don't need to spend the time coding new paths to get the results we're striving for in our games," said Cevat Yerli, President, Crytek. "Performance with this board with this board has been more than satisfying and we have just started to fully maximize its potential."

they got some sweet wallpapers now too http://www.ati.com/designpartners/me...RadeonX1k.html

[biohead]

damn great card, and so big

[tsuehpsyde]

Images are down. If you need image hosting, PM me and I can help ya out.

[Mad Pistol]

I hate to say it, but Nvidia has a much smarter design here. The Nvidia card looks to be slightly smaller, consumes about 1/2 the wattage that the ATI X1800XT consumes, has a 1 slot cooling solution for the GTX, and a very smart multipart core that varies its speeds based on what's being done.

If Nvidia pulls out all the stops here, I believe they will crush ATI. Nvidia has so much room for improvement with their cards that I think they are just taunting ATI right now. I'm going to wait to see what Nvidia's next move is before I decide which way I'm going. I must admit that the SM3.0 support is definately a much needed implementation on ATI's cards. However, Nvidia has been supporting that for 2 generations now, so they know how the SM3.0 works at this point. I think there will be much optimization with their drivers coming up real shortly.

ATI = <= PAPERLAUNCH!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?

[koosjebram]

Nice one
Can you tell us how hot it runs on stock cooling??

[sxs112]

10042 ........

[TEDY]

I bet this will cost 700-800$ in Slovenija.