Radeon HD 2900 (R600) reviews thread

Well, perhaps it's his day off?

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33890984

 

Or maybe he found a very deep hole to hide in. Rage3d Nazies closing threads again.

 

Uh oh. Sounds like another FOURCC hack.

 

I don't recall that DX10 has FOURCC formats.

 

Thank you Pete, it is much appreciated! Thanks for reading.

 

Brent,

Not sure when you guys started the trend but the apples to apples part is very much appreciated in addition to the your standard style of reviews.

 

HFR Test
With some branching info:

 

One small preview in one fan site - in Spanish -




Stalker indoor

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/782/stalker2mf3.png

 

WTF?Drivers used?System specs?SCA is a shit port with a ton of issues so I don`t really care for it, but those Stalker numbers are quite impressive...and unnaligned with what has been shown till now-so, again, WTF?

 

Settings

Splinter Cell DA is very buggy , and this bench is with one tweak in Splinter Cell ini

In Stalker framerate was very bad and erratic until the reviewer reinstall the game . And the 2900 have 512 mb of VRAM - In Stalker videomemory usage is about 530 - 550 at 1600 x 1200 -

Before

First attempt

STALKER 1600x1200 bench 1
min:9
media:21
max:88

Second attempt

BENCH1
2900XT/8800GTS:

1600x1200
min:1/13
med:18/35
max:76/88

BENCH2
2900XT/8800GTS:

1600x1200
min:4/15
med:26/52
max:313/100

1920x1200
min:31/11
med:51/44
max:102/90

.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

After the reinstall the game

 

Same as before, enable AA and the card chokes.

 

How can be the card almost twice as fast in 1920x1200 than in 1600x1200?

 

Is one problem in the reviewer system .In another system of a friend with one 2900 the result was normal.

Allendalle, 2MB caché 7x466=3,26Ghz, Ram 1:1 933Mhz 5-5-5-15 2x1GB
a 1600x1200 y 743/743/1656Mhz.

1)STALKER v1003, AFMax y noAA.

-Timedemo1: Av: 37,55, Min: 19,79, Max: 123,84,
-Timedemo2: Av: 60,14, Min: 37,60, Max: 291,21

 

I`m still in WTF mode. They seem to use the latest alpha(I`ve only skimmed the article) driver, but still...their numbers are really against the current flow.

 

Not really, i myself contributed to that review. We repeated each test 4 times, and the reviewer need to reinstall STALKER cause of very weird results showed in the first runs, but we finally got the good ones which are posted in the final review:
http://www.nextgpu.com/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=31

The drivers are as follows:
8.37.4.0...almost equal performance as the ones on AMds website right now 8.37.4.3. The question is we run different games benchmarks for the task. HD 2900 XT is a good card, but it still losees a lot when AA is enabled. It still shines in some games too...Please, have a look also to the following review:
http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/383/ati-r600-radeon-hd-2900-xt/page1.php

 

In dutch but http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/articles/amdnZGpqZGia/ATI_Radeon_HD_2900_XT_test/1

I cant seem to find which drivers they used but the XT is quite faster than the GTS (even with AA, AF).

 

I'd have that reviewer make sure his card is running PCIe 16X. When you overclock these 775 chipsets, sometimes PCIe drops to 1X. And it may only do it on the occasional reboot.

It would be best to test on a stock clocked machine though. Overclocking adds variables.

 

When will the whitepapers of the R600 be released? Programming guides or something like that?

 

Hardware.fr speaking about R600

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/671-4/ati-radeon-hd-2900-xt.html