Sapphire Technology, the world’s largest producer of ATI Radeon-based graphics cards, has quietly added an unannounced Radeon HD 2900 XTX graphics card into the list of boards it offers to its clients. Currently ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, only sells “XT” version of the board and emergence of the “XTX” was relatively unexpected.
According to Sapphire’s product matrix, Radeon HD 2900 XTX graphics board will feature 1GB of GDDR4 memory at 2050MHz clock-speed as well as the Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics processor at 740MHz with 320 stream processors. At present, the Radeon HD 2900 XT features 512MB of GDDR3 memory at 1650MHz.
AMD currently positions ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card as a rival for Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB and the board’s recommended price is $399. The price of the Radeon HD 2900 XTX remains to be seen, however, 1024MB of GDDR4 memory cost noticeably more compared to 512MB of GDDR3.
Given that ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT already has 105.6GB/s peak memory bandwidth and still cannot beat Nvidia’s GeForce 8800 GTX/Ultra, it is uncertain whether the Radeon HD 2900 XTX will be able to compete against its rivals. Still, with the Radeon HD 2900 XTX its developer will be able to claim the world’s first consumer graphics card with 1GB of memory with the world’s highest peak memory bandwidth of 131.2GB.
AMD and Sapphire officials did not comment on the news-story.
Comments currently: 5
Discussion started: 05/21/07 08:14:51 AM
Latest comment: 06/01/07 08:52:36 AM
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Im not much of an ATI fan but I am an AMD fan and I really hope AMD does well this year. I want to make one point about these 2900's. The XT is not a bad mid-range offering at all. Unlike my beloved Nvidia, the mid-range card isnt a detuned version of the high-end one. The 2900XT is a good card and the XTX is just a good card that has been highly enhanced. You're not getting a handicapped card with the XT and I like that approach from AMD. I hope AMD does some magic with their XP and Vista drivers because I'd like to actually see what their next generation processors can do. Financially they need all the help they can get these days.
[Posted by: Wingless | Date: 05/21/07 08:14:51 AM]
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Nice, obviously Sapphire/AMD/ATI are under a lot of pressure by nVidia, not unlike those "steam" processors they use in their current chips.
(See weblist 2k, cell C12...)
:-)
[Posted by: SheapChit | Date: 05/21/07 08:55:20 AM]
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Heh, they've changed the spreadsheet - the column with the XTX is now hidden. Not that it's a big deal to unhide it ...
[Posted by: Cynic | Date: 05/21/07 12:02:39 PM]
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hope the HD2900XTX can beat both 8800Gtx and 8800 Ultra so the price war will begin and It's look like HD2900XTX can perform well
[Posted by: Haunter | Date: 05/22/07 03:35:17 AM]
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Will the new one come with UVD ?
When will it on the market?
[Posted by: Long | Date: 06/01/07 08:52:36 AM]
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