Official HD 2900 Discussion Thread

[Periander6]

Its beyond a tech discussion, its a "want to believe" thread now.

It's amazing what hope will cause people to swallow.

First the March delay and the absurd "strategy" excuse about the family launch. AMD/ATI dying for cash and they delay for marketing reasons? Where is the family launch now? R630 and R610 coming out on 5/14, or are they going to delay the R600 again? LOL to anyone that bought that joke of an excuse.

Second, the NDA at CeBIT. DAAMIT's got nothing in the $300+ market to cannibalize. What possible reason for the NDA if benchies are good??

Third, the NDA in Tunis. Same as above but X10. What possible reason if the numbers are good? Don't give me a Bush-level "strategerie" like the family launch above.

Fourth, the pricing. When you are releasing a new flagship and your whole company is dying for cash, who the hell talks about pricing and undercutting the competition instead of beating the crap out of them performance wise??

Fifth. DT, Kyle and Fuad (a pure ATI fanboi) all working together in some gigantic FUD conspiracy to trash the R600 just a couple days before launch. Yeah, ok. To what purpose when the numbers will be out for all to see in a couple of days except to trash their own credibility?

Fifth, ATI's own slides not even bothering to mention any XTX, talking about "technology" instead of "performance" leadership, and comparing the XT against the GTS or even their own X1950 LOL.

All of this, and there are still people searching for any excuse to convince themselves that the R600 is going to kick the GTX's ass. WTF?

Here's the bottom line. The R600 is going to be an NV30 level disaster. Crazy late, with performance hardly better than the competition's 2nd best from 6 months ago, and while sucking up an insane level of power (200 watts, with 225+ needed for overclocking?!?) that dwarfs the already power hungry GTX and with heat and cooling issues associated with that. After all this time that's nothing but a very ugly disaster, one that won't be helping AMD one bit and will do very little to push NV into cutting prices. That is bad for everyone, but it doesn't change reality, and that is what the reality is.