ATI showed off its newest, fastest graphics card for gamers, the Radeon X1900, in Manhattan Friday. The video performance was as impressive as ATI promised, with fast graphics and great detail.
Designed from the ground up to deliver maximum graphical detail at the best possible frame rates, the Radeon X1900’s state-of-the-art architecture includes an ultra-threaded engine for unparalleled shader performance. In addition, it is CrossFire™ ready, allowing your greatest multi-GPU fantasies to come true.
The Radeon X1900 conquers the competition with brute force and massive parallelism, including an ultra-threaded engine, high speed memory support, and 90 nanometer technology.
Now all I need is a new computer.
But…at what cost?
Is it twice as fast as my 7800GT? Or is it one of those things where you’ll get maybe….MAYBE….10 or 15 extra FPS? Will it double my FPS? No? Then why bother?
And really, what’s the limit to what the eye can actually determine past? Does 100FPS look any smoother than 60FPS? Not to my eyes. There comes a point to where just throwing more money and more FPS at a game doesn’t make it any better.
AND
What was the system Configuration…
The Bottle necks have been the CPU, AGP, and using 1 CHIPSET on the mobo to control ALL the ports.
768k for an image size… I pity those poor bastards with a dialup line trying to see this.
I’m not a huge fan of NVidia, the extra horsepower would be useless for extra FPS but would be awesome for ramping up the resolution and detail to the extreme.
I’ve just built a new computer, sort of, (new cpu, mobo and ram) and along the way added another ATI card. So now I’ve got an AGP X1600 and a standard PCI Radeon 9200. I didn’t really plan it that way, I’d ordered the AGP mobo in order to use an older AGP ATI card, but one of the things you kind of have to learn along the way is that the AGP voltage settings have changed and if your old card isn’t notched for the new settings then you’re in the market for a new AGP card. But I’m happy, kind of, as both monitors do an outstanding job.
But the next thing is toss the 19″ CRT’s and plug in a couple 21″ LCD flat screens.
Im really waint for a 1 gig card, thats resonably PRICED.
LOAD all the graphics up, and run them from the card, INSTED of caching from the system. THAT alone would be ALOT faster.
THEn I want all my video foramts INSTALLED on the card, insted of having the CPU decode EVERYTHING, have the CARD do it. INSTALL the DX graphics drivers on it ALSO.
This would save the system about 90% of its processing power.
Don’t you love gamers – the newest model is always a waste of money, until they can afford it.
Smartalix, the link in the header is broken (at least it is for me). Please double check it.
Thanks
I can afford this card now…and if I were building a new rig from scratch I’d have to consider this card….but no way would I just upgrade from what I have now for little gain.
But there are some people out there that get kicks out of FPS numbers only, and don’t really enjoy the gaming per-se. Their hobby IS having the fastest and latest technology in and of itself….and there’s nothing wrong with that I suppose. I’m just not one of these numbers guys.
Did I miss something outstandingly obvious or has everyone been living under a rock for the last few months?? The X1900 range has been out ages!? I suppose it IS still new, or indeed their latest model, but it’s not like it’s just been released.
Pardon the error, I pride myself in being more timely than this. I was invited to the ATI event Friday, and assumed the release they thrust in my hands was for a new product. Mea Culpa. (I changed the post lanugage slightly to reflect the age of the device.)
That’s why I prefer to get my news from the trade show floor.
I’ll do better next time, I promise.
You got me excited for a second there. I thought my X1900XT Crossfire was obsolete! Well they released this several months ago, so its old news.
If they come out with a X1950XTX or X2900XTX then wake me up.