I have not laid hands on the XTX. Unless I am very wrong, we are not allowed to say anything on the XT as it is, because it's still an NDA covered property.
All I will say is: I do not understand their benchmarks. That is all. On the other end, I would say this: The one thing that ATI has figured out that is bigtime is that they are ushering out true HDMI cards, with HD-Audio on the interface. This is a HUGE deal as it makes all the difference for Mediacenter boxes, meaning one card for a point of connection via an HDMI 1.3 compliant connector. While everyone loves to talk the high end stuff, it's the middle and low range stuff that sells big. Right now, Nvidia's SLI vista drivers are such utter garbage (and their chipset drivers just as much a mess) that if ATI just comes out with something stable in the middle market they will do OK. Especially considering how poor the 8600GT/GTS is. That having been said, without breaking NDA: I do not understand how they reached the benchmark scores they have. CW -----Original message----- From: "Hayes Elkins" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:36:30 -0700 To: [email protected] Subject: [H] ATI/AMD's upcoming flagship HD 2900 XTX will most likely suck > http://www.dailytech.com/ATI+Radeon+HD+2900+XTX+Doomed+from+the+Start/article7052.htm > > Ouch. Doesn't even approach the performance of a NVIDIA 8800 GTX. > > So here we have the two powerhouses of PC gaming both falling flat on their > faces as far as their DX10 parts go. NVidia's 8800 series may be the better > performer, but their smelly turd drivers for vista are > inexcusable...speaking of inexcusable, ATI releasing a counterpunch GPU 6 > months later with a spec sheet that should eat a pair SLI 8800GTX's alive - > only to have it lay an egg is outright embarrassing. Shareholders should be > concerned. This is not the news they want to hear in wake of their GREAT Q1 > reporting. > > So who is going to step up and release a powerhouse DX10 part? Is Intel the > answer? (I'm not joking) I'm referring to the Larrabee: > http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37548 > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton > John.http://msnconcertcontest.com?icid-nceltontagline >
