Official HD 2900 Discussion Thread

[mascaras]

my friend is testting and in VISTA +10% in HL2 and 3dmark 2006


With Windows XP should be better




btw:

Asus bundles Stalker and HL2 with R600

Launches on Monday

Asus is planning to launch a Radeon HD 2900 XT card on Monday and so far didn't want to sample. MSI also didn't sample its cards at least not that we know of.

MSI has a Borg on the cooler and you can see it here.

While Asus has a Stalker sticker, Asus has a Stalker one. Asus is bundling Stalker with every high end card they have and it is a good game. Apart of Stalker Asus also bundles Half Life 2 episode two, and the rest of the black box games.

The card is a reference one and should cost around €399 in the continental Europe.




http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...d=938&Itemid=1

:thumbsup:


regards

[Revv23]

I hope that you're right, man. If I knew this to be true, then I'd put my GTX up for sale right now and pick one up on release.

Where do you get this information from? If you're under NDA just say so; I'll understand.

Lol i wish i had an NDA. All this info is on the forums. Just look for kinc and sampsa's posts in the 3d section.

[ahmad]

If you no see, you see now:

http://www.hardspain.com/index.php?o...id=62&Itemid=2

[fornowagain]

Link

Catalyst 7.4???

[cantankerous]

only $514 for a Diamond HD 2900XT according to NCIX Canada

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...DATA%20PRODUCT

[mascaras]

maybe with old driver and the test was in VISTA


Test environment : Windows Vista32

http://translate.google.com/translat...&hl=en&ie=UTF8


with 8.374 driver :

X2900XT with a E6400 2Mb cache @ 3000Mhz in windows XP = ~12000 marks (2k6)
X2900XT with E6400 2mb cache @ 3000mhz in Vista = ~11000 makrs ( vista driver suks)

regards

[ownage]

maybe with old driver and the test was in VISTA


Test environment : Windows Vista32

http://translate.google.com/translat...&hl=en&ie=UTF8


with 8.374 driver :

X2900XT with a E6400 2Mb cache @ 3000Mhz in windows XP = ~12000 marks (2k6)
X2900XT with E6400 2mb cache @ 3000mhz in Vista = ~11000 makrs ( vista driver suks)

regards

Where did u find this?

[mascaras]

Where did u find this?

what??? 3dmark 2006 scores with E6400 @ 3GHhz?? (my friend have one)



btw:

There is already 8.38 out

8.37


3dmark 2006: 12086
frames 63


8.38


3dmark2006: 12530
frames : 78

http://chiphell.com/viewthread.php?t...&extra=&page=3

E6600 @ 3600mhz ( 400x9) >>> 12530 marks ( 8.38)

Driver packaged version 8.38-070508a-047443E-ATI
ATI Technologies Inc. Vendor ATI Technologies Inc..
2D-driven version 6.14.10.6698
2D-driven program file path System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Video/{8593CF7B-C241-498F-A753-EE FC259F4B6F}/0000
Direct3D version 6.14.10.0503
OpenGL version 6.14.10.6590
Catalyst ® Control Center Version 2007.0508.21 44.36940
Stream (T200) Driver version 6.14.10.1080

[Shintai]

Both ATI and nVidia drivers still lack alot in Vista. We gonna see this on all fronts for alittle year or so yet.

[Noobie]

Link

Catalyst 7.4???

I expect that this is a driver error, cos VSM has been present since the 6800. See http://http.download.nvidia.com/deve...hadow-Maps.pdf for details.

Furthermore VSM is highly optimized for G80. See http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=38165 for details.

It is somewhat worrying that, if there is nothing wrong with the ATi drivers, programmers need to optimize the code to make the performance acceptable (a factor 3 is insane).

[Xion X2]

Mascaras--great feedback, thanks! So your friend scored ~12,500 on 3dM06 with his E6600 at stock speeds? Was the 2900XT overclocked?

Nice to see the 15fps jump in Dark Messiah w/ the new drivers as well! It looks as if they are making progress.

[Eastcoasthandle]

If you no see, you see now:

http://www.hardspain.com/index.php?o...id=62&Itemid=2

Nice but aren't you locked down with HIS drivers only?

[deathman20]

Both ATI and nVidia drivers still lack alot in Vista. We gonna see this on all fronts for alittle year or so yet.

ATI drivers are great in Vista. I haven't had a single problem with them and they seem to work just as well or better than in XP with most the games I've been playing that I can at least compare too.

[deathman20]

Nice but aren't you locked down with HIS drivers only?

Shouldn't be. I've had HIS cards in the past and you can run them on driver releases.

[DeathReborn]

Mascaras--great feedback, thanks! So your friend scored ~12,500 on 3dM06 with his E6600 at stock speeds? Was the 2900XT overclocked?

Nice to see the 15fps jump in Dark Messiah w/ the new drivers as well! It looks as if they are making progress.

Looks like the 8.37 (12k) was stock & the 8.38 (12.5k) was 3.6GHz. 50% CPU OC for 500 point gain. That is unless he got his pics in the wrong order.

[Eastcoasthandle]

Shouldn't be. I've had HIS cards in the past and you can run them on driver releases.

My concern is that if you get a HIS card you would have to wait for HIS drivers instead of downloading the drivers from ATI directly.

[ownage]

Looks like the 8.37 (12k) was stock & the 8.38 (12.5k) was 3.6GHz. 50% CPU OC for 500 point gain. That is unless he got his pics in the wrong order.

http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?i...b1ed6b7ix5.jpg
no, also 3600mhz, 400fsb, 6x multiplier because of EIST.

Great results!

[XeRo]

My concern is that if you get a HIS card you would have to wait for HIS drivers instead of downloading the drivers from ATI directly.

Does HIS always do that for all their cards? I had other brands of ATi card and just used driver from ATi.

[alexio]

Does HIS always do that for all their cards? I had other brands of ATi card and just used driver from ATi.

Standard ATI driver is fine with HIS cards

[Eastcoasthandle]

Standard ATI driver is fine with HIS cards

thanks, I take it you use HIS cards? Are they in any way better then other ATI video cards? I ask becase HIS is the most expensive.

[Xion X2]

Looks like the 8.37 (12k) was stock & the 8.38 (12.5k) was 3.6GHz. 50% CPU OC for 500 point gain. That is unless he got his pics in the wrong order.

Ah yeah, see it now... still not a bad score. With a single overclocked GTX and my Conroe @ 3.6 I scored 12,200 a few months ago.

[deathman20]

My concern is that if you get a HIS card you would have to wait for HIS drivers instead of downloading the drivers from ATI directly.

I've used HIS in the past and I haven't had any issues with it thats why I say that. Sure notebooks might have issues or OEM machines because they sometimes switch the bios to only load from that place but regular retail or OEM shouldn't even consider that as an issue.

[Eastcoasthandle]

I've used HIS in the past and I haven't had any issues with it thats why I say that. Sure notebooks might have issues or OEM machines because they sometimes switch the bios to only load from that place but regular retail or OEM shouldn't even consider that as an issue.

Thanks for the information. Is there any reason why HIS cost more then other ATI vidoe cards?

[mascaras]

Looks like the 8.37 (12k) has stock & the 8.38 (12.5k) was 3.6GHz. 50% CPU OC for 500 point gain. That is unless he got his pics in the wrong order.

negative , with 8.37 he have EIST enable ( when CPU is Idle run multi x6 and FULL run multi x9 )

look at cpu-z >> FSB = 400 (400x9 = 3600mhz)



He run Both tests :

- E6600 @ 400x9 = 3600mhz >>> 12530marks (3.8)

- E6600 @ 400x9 = 3600mhz >>> 12086marks (3.7)

>>> 78 FPS in Game (3.8)

>>> 63 FPS in Game (3.7)



regards

[deathman20]

Thanks for the information. Is there any reason why HIS cost more then other ATI vidoe cards?

Brand name mostly. Sometimes they have better software packages then others, as well better coolers sometimes.