ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Performance Benchmarks

[Svartalf]

Actually, after Michael's response, I'm beginning to suspect that with
the new beta drivers the r600 will be kicking the 8800's butt in linux
too

Guess again.

[mlau]

Guess again.

One can dream

EDIT: okay I just saw the 2900xtx benchmarks over at
dailytech; seems ati has still a lot of work to do at
the driver front

[confuzed]

Pretty nice card!! I'm interested to see Linux benchmarks for this card running wine. Should be interesting.

[Michael]

Just adding to the rumor mill.....

From what we?ve been hearing in Taipei though, ATI are working busier than ever on new driver revisions which MIGHT increase performance but of course nobody knows what will happen for sure. One company claimed that ATI are waiting for ?the best driver? which means if the driver is still not 100% by May 14th, we could see further delays.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/7397/radeon_hd_2900xt_launch_and_for_sale_may_14_not_the_2nd/index.html

[d2kx]

The news sounds like "new performance driver coming soon, but I can't tell you" :P I can't wait!

[Raven3x7]

Im not convinced those benchmarks were done with the latest revision of the card or that they are even real. The driver could also be the problem. Particularly the XTX one as it should at least have a somewhat better performance than the XT no matter what.

[yoshi314]

From what we?ve been hearing in Taipei though, ATI are working busier than ever on new driver revisions which MIGHT increase performance

yeah, maybe on windows, under certain benchmarks :]

i'm taking all those "working busier on new drivers" stories with a jar of salt. unless they mean windows, b/c that's what ati cares the most about.

[mlau]

unless they mean windows GAMES, b/c that's what ati cares the most about.

fixed that for you

In my experience, the windows catalysts' performance has decreased
for anything that is not a game. I still use the 4.12 since they're
still the fastest ones for the scene.org demos for example.

[gilboa]

I really hope AMD/ATI can get a good driver for R600. Having to relay only on nVidia (as benevolent dictators as they are), cannot be good in the long run.

- Gilboa