[Testing] Sapphire X2900XT

[LowRun]

Reviews tell me otherwise?

Not all of them. See: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/671-...d-2900-xt.html for example

[DilTech]

Not all of them. See: http://www.hardware.fr/articles/671-...d-2900-xt.html for example

Once again, I find it odd that it's always the sites I've never heard of that show these numbers. The ones that everyone knows, like anandtech, hardocp, or even driver heaven(who's notoriously ati friendly might I add) tell a completely different tale. Driver heaven even went as far as to say they cannot recommend the card to anyone.

This falls into the reason I say wait for the big sites to cover the new driver release.

[LowRun]

Once again, I find it odd that it's always the sites I've never heard of that show these numbers. The ones that everyone knows, like anandtech, hardocp, or even driver heaven(who's notoriously ati friendly might I add) tell a completely different tale. Driver heaven even went as far as to say they cannot recommend the card to anyone.

This falls into the reason I say wait for the big sites to cover the new driver release.

Hardware.fr is a big site and their reviews have always been very professional, they went as far as to test things i've not seen tested anywhere else in this review, like Dynamic branching with a test they made that allow them to modify Dynamic branching's granularity. On the other hand i bought a Asus A8R-MVP after reading one of the most misleading mobo review ever and it was from Anandtech, two days with the mobo were more than enough to let the XS crew know that this board was far from what Anandtech said, so your big sites don't have much credibility in my eyes. What would the world look like if it was only made of things you've heard of.

[Periander6]

Hardware.fr is a big site and their reviews have always been very professional.

And they end up concluding that the XT is "légèrement" (slightly) ahead of the GTS/640, just as the bulk of the other reviews out there did.

[DilTech]

And they end up concluding that the XT is "légèrement" (slightly) ahead of the GTS/640, just as the bulk of the other reviews out there did.

The bulk of the other reviews showed it being beat by the 640 gts.

[LowRun]

The bulk of the other reviews showed it being being the 640 gts.

Seems like some people disagree with that too

[DilTech]

Seems like some people disagree with that too

People will always disagree with things, it's human nature.

[deathman20]

The bulk of the other reviews showed it being beat the 640 gts.

So otherwise if you take the ones that beat it and the ones that loose to it, its even then. As well thats release drivers. Things will improve and don't give me ATI's had time to make the drivers better. nVidia has had hundreds of thousands of people using there cards to help them better improve there drivers over the past few months.