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Post by Renown on Feb 21, 2006 18:43:14 GMT -5
The newest GPU from Canada's faithful ATI. To their applause it simply murders the competition. Having twice as many pixel shader processors as the GeForce 7800 GTX and three times that of the X1800, the X1900 is king or at least until it's nVidia's GTX 512 rivals it's power. At the moment two models were released wearing the X1900 name. The X1900XT and X1900XTX, the forming with a core speed of 550 MHz and a 46.4 GB transfer rate. The latter however is the true mammoth with a clock speed 100-times better, that comes out to an astounding 650 MHz and a 49.6 GB transfer rate. ATi has left the building...
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Post by Latios XT on Feb 22, 2006 1:39:03 GMT -5
Despite ATi putting out another card in order to fight the 7800GTX, according to Tom's Hardware, it doesn't provide a whole ton of a performance difference, unless 5-6FPS is a whole ton. It's kinda like the 6800 and the X850. It's not too powerful, and I think it's ATi's way of trying to always be one step ahead of nVidia... which really in the long run, doesn't matter.
I think ATi just wants to see nVidia wallow at its feet since the days of the 9000 series and FX series.
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Post by Renown on Mar 20, 2006 21:43:26 GMT -5
It's official. Well, as of now it's late, but nonetheless the X1900 has slayed nVidia's 7800 GTX 512 mammoth. I would say it pummeled the GTX 512 to the ground, but that would be the fanboy in me speaking aloud.
As mentioned in my previous post, the X1900 comes in two distinct flavors, the XT and XTX, the latter being the better of the two. When these two went about it in SLI and CrossFire...both had their gains and losses, but in the end the X1900 rose above the rest and has successfully backed up it's claim of being the fastest consumer GPU on the planet.
With that said, all we need now is an X1900 XTX PE. If I were a betting man, I'd say the Platinum Edition XTX will be a discrete rival to nVidia's 7900 GTX, clocking it at 700 MHz with 1.7 - 1.75 GHz of GDDR-3.
Of course, it's unlikely that'll happen being that there's an X1800 XT PE which by far exceeds that of the X1900 XTX.
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