Official HD 2900 Discussion Thread

[theteamaqua]

unbelievable how people react here... its getting worse day by day

they see some benches from a pre-build product not on final clockspeed and manufacturing and already blaming ati and going to buy the 8800 series. (the 8800 was 20% oc'ed btw)

this is a 80nm base card, it will not be released within 2 weeks and the xtx will be available on 65nm with way higher clock.

get a grip most here sound like 15year old school boys.
wait until you see the real retail price of the new r600 series.....

well ... i partially agree with u... i do think that R600XTX's performance is hurt due to the early driver ... and also its a STOCK HD2900XTX @ 750/2020 vs OCed 650/2000 8800GTX (btw many can do 660 to 675 on core , and 2200 to 2400 on mem)

but the Core WONT CHANGE ... simple as that ... and benchmarks/performance depend heavily on the CORE NOT the memory ...

unless retail actually OC higher than the ESes.. say HD2900XTX can do core at 900 to 1000Mhz ... i dont think there is any miracle that can make 2900XTX beat 8800GTX .... beside driver that is .. also they should test it on an intel board ..