[alex]

Finally, after various delays and lots of rumours here's the spec of ATI's new DX10 flagship graphics card.

Two version's are to be available. A 12" long (check your case dimension's before purchase!) OEM version for system builders and a 9.5" long Retail version.

Manufacturer specifications are as follows:

Ram: 1Gb of DDR4 running at 1.01GHZ (2.02GHZ effective)
GPU: 750MHZ
Memory controller: 512bit.
Stream processors: 320.



All the spec's above are much higher than Nvidia's 8800GTX reference specifications but ATI's take on what makes a stream processor is different to Nvidia's. But I doubt anybody who is in the market for such a card is going to be sold on number's alone.

The card also requires a new 8-pin 12v connector that is only just coming on stream in new PSU's.

By all accounts the X2900XTX has faired rather badly in synthetic benchmarking with the 8800GTX and there appears to be some doubt as to whether or not it will be released at all due to the cost increase of the extra ram over the X2900XT.


No quoted price yet but expect it to be in-line with Nvidia's 8800GTX if it does get released for purchase by the public.

[Hybr!d]

So is the 8800 still top dog then mate?

[alex]

From a purely frame rate point of view it looks like it.

But. If you're looking to buy a card of such prowess and one is quoted at 100fps and the other brand card is quoted at 95fps at the same resolution and detail settings it doesn't really matter in my humble opinion which one you go for. Just go for the cheaper of the two.

The only time i'd be looking between card types is if i was gaming at very high resolutions as thats what cards of the x2900xtx/8800gtx specifications were primarily designed for.

[xactly]

if im not mistaken thats the hd 2900 xt not xtx thats not released till september 07 i think