Radeon HD 2900 (R600) reviews thread

The 1Gb GDDR4 Sapphire I just bought has 2.

 

Then only God knows what`s the story with the heatpipes

 

I'm really surprised by the lack of R600 reviews lately across the net......Is there any update on when Rys is going to have his R600 follow-up ready so we can have some new reading material?

edit: Although not an explicit R600 review, I did come across this article benchmarking the latest Cat 7.7's

 

I think a lot of sites are probably waiting a few driver revisions in the hope that ATI will pull some driver magic. From the looks of the last couple of versions, doesn't seem to be forthcoming much.

 

By the time Ati figures out the drivers (if they actually do!) there will be revision out and nvidia will have upped the game with the next series.

Really, Ati will need a whole new card to get back in the game properly. The inconsitancy in performance from game to game is amazing.

 

Hey guys,

Any rough ETA on the remainder of B3D's R600 review?

 

We've mixed it up a bit. It's coming. It's not what you're expecting. (It's good. I am writing software that's along the same lines, but the article will probably come first...)

 

What a tease! lol......Can you give us any more details to whet our appetites?

 

According to E.Demers R6xx"is a lot of work, by over 300 eng., over 4 years..."
http://graphics.stanford.edu/cs448-...AttachFile&do=get&target=Eric_Demers_R6XX.pdf

 

What's confusing about that statement?

 

http://www.computerbase.de/news/software/spiele/actionspiele/2007/august/benchmarks_bilder_bioshock/
...

 

A test at a single resolution and single AF setting? With 1XAA Not really very useful, but thanks for the link.

 

I don't get much the german writing, but probably they forced AF through the driver, which is not very optimal -- they should have done it by editing the .ini file, instead.
As for AA, at least under Vista & DX10, it can't be enabled/forced.

 

DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics Accelerators

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/directx10-games.html

HD2900XT, XT-1024, GF8800GTX, GTS-640, GTS-320. Interesting results...

 

From this test we can say hd2600xt ~1.5-2 times faster in "DX10" games COJ, COH than the 8600gts, but when we look deeper COJ: 11 vs 5 fps, 13.1 vs 6.8 fps, 13.8 vs 7 fps, COH 13 vs 5 fps, 21.2 vs 15.4 fps, the only playable frames 51.5 vs 30.8 in mode3 (model quality set at high, All settings low or off).

This test not looks bad from hd series side, too bad not much playable avarage framerates in the test, but maybe enough for some hint whats coming later when real DX10 games arrive

 

Yet looking at the nVIDIA drivers used (158.24) im not really convinced from their review that ATi cards are better at DX10. Not to mention ATs article contrasts the xbitlabs one. (Uses 162.18)

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3029

 

But ATI drivers used where also some beta with some time old.
They didn´t use the Cat. 7.8 that bring lots of performance to HD 2600 series.

 

That review is now obsolete. Drivers are too old to be meaningful.

 

Here is a R600 vs. G80 review both recent and relevant.


http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/bioshock_directx10_performance/

 

I disagree. There are several other reviews that have very different numbers in Bioshock. And many people on forums are reporting different numbers for Bioshock (especially on the HD2900XT) which are much better than the FS numbers....