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ATI 2900 XTX Falls at the Hands of GeForce 8800 GTX

Yesterday we saw ATI's Radeon 2900 XT duke it out against the GeForce 8800 GTS (verdict: ATI stomped Nvidia). Today, however, the tables have turned as the GeForce 8800 GTX spanks the Radeon HD 2900 XTX (ATI's mac-daddy of video cards) back into submission. The gang at DailyTech put the two powerhouse cards up against each other, and surprisingly ATI lost by a decent margin on each test.

The 2900 XTX has the same core as the 2900 XT. The difference is in the memory: The XTX comes with GDDR4 memory. To be fair, the test results aren't a true indication of the XTX's final performance (considering it was a sample card), so hopefully the boys in red won't disappoint when the real deal comes through. – Louis Ramirez

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX, Doomed from the Start [DailyTech]

4:20 PM on Thu Apr 26 2007
By Louis Ramirez
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evilkingteapot at 03:53 PM on 04/26/07
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aka my leafblower beat your leafblower.
strider_mt2k at 04:08 PM on 04/26/07
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Oh snap!

That can't bode well for all those early adopters looking to win at the specsmanship game.

Let's laugh and point! HA HA!
FrankenPC at 04:17 PM on 04/26/07
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Peter Griffith: Ouch...ohhh...ahhh...ahhh...ahhh
hebrewbacon at 04:21 PM on 04/26/07
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I ordered an 8800 GTX yesterday, only to cancel the order after hearing that ATI's cards will be coming oh-so-soon. Even if they don't beat Nvidia performance wise, Nvidia should still cut prices on 8800 GTX's in order to kill the competition *winks to Intel's C2D price cut*. Do we have any more information as to when these cards are expected to drop? I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE... MY GAMING MOJO IS HAVING NIGHTMARES!
Franklin Comes Alive! at 04:47 PM on 04/26/07
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Wow, can anyone say GeForce 5800FX? I can't believe NV's part owns ATIs that bad, especially considering it's been out for so long already.
xxdesmus at 05:01 PM on 04/26/07
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Are we really surprised?

I mean really, who is surprised that the 8800GTX spanked anything that ATI (I mean AMD) can offer?
Pegleg Joe at 05:08 PM on 04/26/07
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Wow. I'm surprised. Too bad a lot of people really had there hopes up for this card. I'd like to see some DX10 benchmarks now.
willyolio at 06:25 PM on 04/26/07
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as long as the affordable one is better, that's all that matters.
SBGUY27 at 06:32 PM on 04/26/07
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i knew it my good old quad SLI 8800GTX 768Mb is king still. super ownage!!!
stan_i_am at 08:27 PM on 04/26/07
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@SBGUY27

Chances are your quad SLI is performing worse than a dual SLI. From the last I understood, nVidia has some work to do to fix the quad performance issues.

I've got a 2x 8800GTX SLI, but don't really bother to run them in SLI mode all the time... seems more unstable when SLI is on, so I usually play games with 1 card and use the other card to drive 2 additional monitors (3 total)... very useful when programming!

BTW, how are you pulling off quad SLI anyways? Did they end up coming out with a double-decker 8800 or are you running 2 in PCI-E 1x slots?
jimbob6 at 08:47 PM on 04/26/07
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I'm just thrilled nVidia won. ATi's partner's suck, there are so few crossfire mobos. the nVidia chipsets bet the bloody hell out of ATi's. For the record I have never been tainted with an ATi card in my own computers, but I have dealt with ATi's crap.
stan_i_am at 11:15 PM on 04/26/07
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@jimbob6

I found quite a few ATI crossfire mobos when shopping for a new computer. I just went with nVidia because I wanted two DX10 cards and ATI didn't have any.

The ATI vs nVidia thing is always on and off again. nVidia used to have awesome driver support back in the days when 3D accelleration was a new big deal. After a while they started to get sloppy and ATI stepped up and provided the best drivers - so I switched to them. Now they're both getting sloppy and it's time for someone to step up again.

Their hardware is amazing, with nVidia in the lead currently, but both companies leave a lot to be desired where drivers are involved... especially Vista drivers.
TheDeotch at 09:43 AM on 04/27/07
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ATI is getting there @$$es handed to them once again. Is there anyone who actually prefers ATI to nVidia (driver issues aside, lets talk hardware).

I switched to nVidia back when I bought a 6800 Ultra and I haven't looked back. All that crossfire and fatal1ty stuff was either late coming, gimmicky or simply didn't work as well.

Am I the only who thinks this? I've been out of the graphics card loop for a few months, and I've heard about nVidia's lack of support for Vista, so set me straight if I'm talking like an idiot.
Sunin at 10:52 AM on 04/27/07
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Hello, just look at the clocks of each card and you quickly realize which card is the true powerhouse... I mean anyone can win a war by overclocking the piss out of their processor... does that make the better card? NO... Compare the clocks and notice that ATI has nearly a 200mhz diff from Nvidia.. Thus Nvidia has a butt load of head room for future super cooled highly over clocked 8800GTX's. I knew this nearly 3 mos ago when I bought my GTX and made the jump blowing just over $1k on SLI'd GTX's. I have yet to regret that decision as these cards kick some serious Arse!
stan_i_am at 01:20 PM on 04/27/07
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thedeotch:

You're kinda correct. nVidia Vista support sucks... but so does ATIs.

The only reason you hear about the nVidia suckage more is because the 8800s cost a hefty chunk of change and were supposed to be designed for Vista/DX10 off the bat... then Vista comes out and it crashes all the time.

Right now, I'm not bothering with SLI b/c it's enough of a pain hoping they don't crash as is. Tons of driver features are missing to. The Vista drivers have a long way to go to get to the state where nVidia drivers were in XP.

As far as ATI goes, from what I understand, they support more cards because of their unified driver architecture, but stability and performance are works in progress with them too.
BigDanInTX at 03:13 PM on 04/30/07
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(*Prays for more high-end cards so he can finally afford last fall's high-end stuff*)
beast-usa at 05:25 PM on 05/05/07
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Well I would say "wait for the fat lady to sing"
Then comment on who's faster. For me I like Nvidia better then ATI. But I'm a litte PO'ed about forcing me to use thier junk chipset!

I was using ASUS & Abit intel 975 crosswired.
Hacked nvidia drivers for SLI with XFX 7900EE's NP. But I could never get my 7950's to do quad SLI. So I was running TRI-SLI, disable one gpu in device manager. And the nvidia driver will let you enable SLI.

So I bought this 680die board ...what a nightmare. Just to have the 7950's or 88 run SLI.
Nvidia should stick to video cards. Poor voltage controll, weak bus, try adding more then 8 sata drives? LOL it won't even boot. So I'm stuck with 680die If I want SLI. Or go back to intel fast raid, slow ATI cards that sound like 747's. (X1900XT & X1900XTX) crosswired. So loud I couldn't here my VapoLS!.

AMD=ATI Nvidia=Nvidia Intel=AMD WTH

What I would like:
Intel you guys have big bucks?
Start your own Video Card Line?
Wipe the floor with ATI-AMD & Nvidia...PLEASE
And make your card/s work on everyone board! LOL
So I can choose what I spend millions on and what combo I like.
gdiamente at 05:18 PM on 06/12/07
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First I will give my back ground:
System builder 6 years
PC enthusiast 12+ years
Dream machine builder 4+ years

I love reading forums where guys chat about what they really don't know. First, forget about Intel making graphics cards they can't make CPU's right yet. Next the whole industry is built on misinformation and keeping nubs arguing what is best. Don't argue AMD Intel NVidida ATI they are all the same. They prey on guys like you and keep you buying the new technology and by the time they get the bugs worked out then there is a new line to buy. Quit acting like you know what the best is : for instance, Intel wins last round bench marks.

Big deal Intel fans make intel better and AMD fans make AMD better.
I can take either make it the best and beat all of you.

Get over yourselves, get off the forums and go game. The best gamers don't need to bench and overclock, they use something called skill to show who the best is.

If you are into video then go edit and capture and render till your palms are hairy and quit adding to the mystique of a great hardware war.

Thank You for your time,
Rhyndal FTW