2900 XTX benchmarks - when are they due out?

[masaville]

Curious to see how that 2900 XTX performs. Does anyone know when the 'official' benchmarks are coming out for the XTX?

 

[BAC4D00R SP1D0R]

Hard ocp has them posted online...

 

[LostInRehab]

[H] has the xt benches. The xtx is not out yet and has been pushed back.

 

[|CR|Constantine]

If I had to take a guess the XTX will not be released until Crysis hits the shelves and even then I doubt AMD will figure out what has been plaqueing this card.

The R600 in all purposes was a victim of merger between two companies and a chip that was perhaps too audacious.

 

[Krypton]

The merger had nothing to do with it. This chip has been in development for years (if I'm not mistaken it started with the xbox 360's xenos). The 3 month delay was because because of manufacturing problems. I going to quote something kyle said in the review thread.



I have reason to believe this is true simply because the HD 2900 overclocks so well.

Overclocks so well..only under phase change cooling lol.

 

[Battleneter2]

If I had to take a guess the XTX will not be released until Crysis hits the shelves and even then I doubt AMD will figure out what has been plaqueing this card.

The R600 in all purposes was a victim of merger between two companies and a chip that was perhaps too audacious.

It looks like there will be no XTX at least not a higher clocked 2900XT as such. ATI have made statement that an XTX version would be pointless as people can just buy Crossfire.

This is of course a COMPLETE cop out, and if they released a XTX version it would still get its ass kicked by some GTS's which would be even more embarrassing for ATI imo.

Add to all this a higher clocked 2900XT is more power consumption and more heat for an architecture that already has heat and power issues.