Category: ATI

Radeon HD News Around the net

The ATI Radeon HD 2000 series has launched and a flood of news and reviews have hit the internet. Here are the ones that I found interesting:

AMD Phenom CPU and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT finally official

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT – AMD’s Long awaited R600 DX10 GPU arrives

AMD Releases 2000 Series Radeons

AMD’s R600 has something of the flawed diamond about it

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD Family, Finally

5/14/2007 Daily Hardware Reviews — ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Edition

AMD unveils ATI Radeon HD 2000

AMD’s ATI R600 launched for desktops, laptops

AMD finally introduces ATI Radeon HD 2000 series, performance reportedly disappointing

Power Supply Makers Lining up for R600

PowerColor Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card

AMD Announces ATI Mobility Radeon HD Family

ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series Launched, from $99 to $399

Radeon HD takes out hardware site

After a long wait, ATI’s next-gen 3D cards arrive

Yea I know thats a lot and there today has been nothing but links but the new Radeons are very interesting and very important for AMD, so check them out.

AMD Says Quad-Core by Christmas

AMD showed off some of its Quad-Core CPUs, showing single socket and dual-socket configurations. This is the first time that AMD has shown off a computer with 8-cores in it.

The barcelona server chips will hit July or August with the desktop part later this year.

AMD showed off these chips by encoding a 1080p movie in h.264 at near real-time.

The machines were also running with Radeon HD 2900XT cards which will be launching May 14th.

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DailyTech

ATI Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 Details

DailyTech has some information on ATI Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 boards. Two Radeon HD 2600 flavors, Pro and XT. Partners will have many variations of the 2600. They will include GDDR4, GDDR3, and DDR2 in 512MB and 256MB.  Radeon HD 2400 will have 256MB and 128MB of memory.

The 2600 and 2400 cards will be much cheaper than the 2900 cards and they all will feature DirectX10 support.

Find out more here.

ATI Radeon HD 2900XT and XTX Benchmarks

DailyTech had some time with the two cards and was able to benchmark them against a Geforce 8800GTX. The 2900XTX is really fast but is nothing compared to the 8800GTX, although the 2900XT is faster than the 8800GTS.

Seems like both sections of AMD are having some problems graphics cards and CPU’s.

In Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion:
Radeon HD 2900XTX got 75.1 FPS
Radeon HD 2900XT got 73.4 FPS
Geforce 8800GTX got 98.4 FPS

all of the other data looks very similar but I would suggest checking it out.

DailyTech

R600 Hits May 14th and now called Radeon HD

AMD has decided to name its upcoming line of graphics cards the X2000 series cards Radeon HD graphics cards.

Also according to the Inquirer AMD will hold some kind of launch party for 200 selected people 3 weeks before it launches on May 14th.

This seems a little early to me and I don’t understand why they didn’t wait at least another week or two to have the party. All of those at the party will need to be hush hush about the product until May 14th but I think that there may be some leakage in the form of rumors.

the Inquirer

R600XTX Benchmarked

VR-Zone was able to have some alone time with the upcoming Radeon X2900XTX, this thing is fast, with a benchmark in 3DMark06 of 9700 or so, which is about 200 points more than the 8800XTX, maybe thats why Nvidia has decided to create an 8800 Ultra (also here). VR-Zone also has a bunch of new pics of the card up.

VR-Zone [via Gizmodo]