Quake3World

Have you seen some of the reviews? Ouch, the card pretty much blows. Chalk up another loss for ati/amd (man I bet they are sure wishing they hadn't bought ati last year now)

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art ... h1c2lhc3Q=

"The ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT however is more akin to NVIDIA’s GeForce FX 5800."

lol ouch. I know some will say that you can wait for the drivers to mature, but why should we do that? Why is it every product ships sub-standard these days and we basically need to "wait" for it to mature? No thanks, if I was in the market for a new card right about now I would definately go nvidia.

There aren't any proper DX10 benchmarks yet, but yes, it doesn't look good for AMD/ATi.

What we can hope for now is a quick refresh like the one they did with the x1800->x1900 series, but by then nVidia will probably already released their own refresh of the G80, so things are looking kinda bad for AMD/ATi at the moment.

It's a shame, because we could use the competition. A couple of years ago the super high end card was around $400, now it's $600 (or $900 if you count the 8800Ultra).

That hardocp review is a bit sucky though, the one at anandtech feels a bit more balanced. Still no win for the 2900 though.

Bah, I was hoping for gAyTi to compete with the 8800 to cause Nvidia to reduce their prices.

which 8800 was it supposed to compete with?

the 2900xt is a $399 card.(msrp, it will go down shortly after launch) is it supposed to compete with the $900 ultra or the $599 gtx?

$399 for a card that bests the gtx in some games and comes with the half life 2 black box bundle sounds like a good deal to me.

linking to a "[H]ard on for nvidia" review of an ati card. :larf: is that the same guy who said the 5800 series was top notch?

oh it's shadd, the ati fanboi.

hi shadd

it says it dosen't perform any better than a 8800gts, which is a lot cheaper too

dzjepp wrote:oh it's shadd, the ati fanboi.

hi shadd

i was countering your nvidiotisms!