ATI X1800XT Preview

[DR]

This initial gloss over the tech, board evaluation and performance snapshot should have you salivating at the thought of buying a 3D accelerator in the near future. Radeon 1800 XT, via a decently clocked R520 GPU and fast memories, defines the base performance the rest of the X1000 series range will scale down from. From this debut, it's arguably never been better to think about upgrading to PCI Express for graphics, or just graphics in general if you're already on the interconnect.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603

[kalniel]

How does he know all that stuff?... cool

[[DW]Cougho]

Very impressive.

Wasting a 7800GTX is no mean feat.

[NikolaX]

OMG the FEAR bench is veryyy good !
now imagine this chip with 24 or 32 pipes

[DR]

NVIDIA have just released their Rel80 drivers, wait for news on that soon

[NikolaX]

NVIDIA have just released their Rel80 drivers, wait for news on that soon

There you go benchs with new nvidia drivers (still ati is better in lostcoast avg.score and fear)
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/r520reviewxvxv/

we have a winner

[DR]

Go buy it

[kalniel]

And the reports flood in... not getting much work done at the moment heh

The 1600xt seems very interesting and ambitious. What I really want to know is how that one in particular scales with CPU power (or lack of). It's all very well having your top cards perform better at with the best CPUs, but it would be very very neat if ATI targetted the 1600xt at people with less than stellar CPUs and made the shader performance count more than texture bandwidth for that reason...

[NikolaX]

Go buy it

I will wait for X1800 XL and crosfire

[Applecrusher]

And the reports flood in... not getting much work done at the moment heh

The 1600xt seems very interesting and ambitious. What I really want to know is how that one in particular scales with CPU power (or lack of). It's all very well having your top cards perform better at with the best CPUs, but it would be very very neat if ATI targetted the 1600xt at people with less than stellar CPUs and made the shader performance count more than texture bandwidth for that reason...

Where is a good review of hte X1600? I cant find one :'(

[NikolaX]

Where is a good review of hte X1600? I cant find one :'(

Here you go mate, and it has X800XL
GG ATI !
http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...leid=734&cid=2

[DR]

We will have our X1600 review soon

[Applecrusher]

We will have our X1600 review soon

as in when i wake in the morning (its midnight here), or in a few days?

Thanks Nikolax!!

[kalniel]

There's a list of reviews here:

http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=25031

I think I initially looked at the tech report for the 1600 review, as it describes the strange set up quite well. I'm sure Hexus will do a great job of that one too (and hopefully will follow up with a fabulous lower spec system review at some point to)

[camalbitboy]

Now if only they had any in stock.......

But looking quite good. Hopefully it will cause a bit of a price drop on the 7800's as they loose in most benchmarks I've seen published so far.

[NikolaX]

No date yet, but X1800XL is 100 £ more then 7800GT, i hope it will drop soon.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...00_Series.html