AMDs R600 launch: May 2 ... Next week

[Twisted_Sister]

The real problem here is the GTS 320.Its a lot cheaper than the 640 and roughly the same performer.I think the best price for AMD would be over 320 and under 640 or else 320 will be a big hit.

The xt benches higher than the gts, it will cost more.


The xt is no faster than the GTS.

Our benchmarks for Half Life 2: Episode 1 showed an abnormal framerate for the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS card that scaled with lower resolutions -- we believe there was a copy error. We reran the tests this morning and achieved 119.2 frames per second with the GeForce 8800 GTS.

I did a stress test on CS:Source the other day... just an e4300 @ stock, 2gb Gkill 800 and 8800 GTS 320 = 195 FPS. My res was probably lower than that test, but 119 seems reasonable.

 

[cal7]

I would like to have the 320 instead of the 640 , but it wasnt out when i got mine

 

[RichPLS]

I just can not remember why?

 

[eregular]

it seems like the differences between the 8800gts 320meg and the xt should be significant...aren't they taking drastically different approaches to DX10 GPU construction? I wish I understood more about nvidia's stream processors....

 

[EXT64]

I don't buy the 750W system power req., it seems way too high. A single XT couldn't use enough to require that much PSU because it only has 1 power connector + the slot. I believe you choose between the 6 pin and the 8 pin, but don't use both. Someone in another thread said the max possible it could draw then was 175W, leaving some 575W for the rest of the system!?! Seems like a lie to me. Maybe this will get ATI to release the real specs.
I think with good drivers the XT should beat the GTS fairly well. It already beat the GTS fairly well in ATI optimized games like Oblivion by 10+FPS, and that was even in daily's bad benchmarks.

 

[mythos]

Definitely too high - probably means 750W on subpar power supply with untruthful ratings and everything else maxed out... even then though it seems a little ridiculous

 

[EXT64]

Hey, did you guys see this:

R600 Accidental Release

Apparently HIS accidentally posted this on their site, and have since removed it. If true, it confirms the card will be 80nm (which I hope isn't true), however, when I glanced over the pages, I didn't see a power req.

 

[cal7]

I wouldnt mind having 320MB as it doesnt make much difference to the res i play ,at least for DX9 games.And for 40% less i wouldnt mind giving it away and get a better one in the (very) near future.