ATI has a secret weapon

Regeneration · 03:13 PM

PCMag has published a Falcon Northwest Mach V Desktop PC review. In that review, the reviewer claimed that the system had two ATI Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB cards in Crossfire Configuration. However, in the benchmark chart they mentioned that the graphics chipset is Radeon HD 2900XTX, not HD 2900XT.

The graphic chipset model conflict is not the only weird thing, but the performance by these cards is way too faster then normal 2900XT/2900XTX cards; and even Nvidia’s GeForce 8800GTX SLI. So if these results are truly real and no information is missing, then ATI is hiding something under their jackets.

New drivers? Higher Clocks? New cards? Only time will tell.

10:26 PM

if there is one thing you might be overlooking when asking your self if its a new card and its the fact the whole pc is WATER COOLED meaning the CROSS FIRE cards as well and since the card it self has a "huge" overhead which is held back mainlly by its overheating fact, water cooling it would actually bring it closer to its "real" potencial.

The R600 is very crude in a sense that it generates alot of heat reminding me of the PRESCOTT (not to far back), and since there is so much heat there is a larger waste of energy thats why its pumping more PSU w.

the HD 2900 XT/x is the only card manufactured from the R6XX series at 80nm rest (R610,R630) are 65nm, so the real test will be when they optimize the R600 and release it in its 65nm version.

for now only the water/nito cooled R600 card will "rule" the benchmarks.

my 2 cents....