X1900 reviews

[Thetwizler24]

In almost every review i have read. The x1900 is 50% faster than the x1800 in a lot of cases. It especially shows in this reivew.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-x1900xtx.html

The 7800gtx 512mb still beats the x1900 in a few cases. Mostly games and benchmarks that utilize the older 1.4 shaders and use a lot of open GL.

 

[JCLW]

One more:

http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/r580/int/

In an effort to dig further into ATI's thinking behind the design of R580 and gain a greater understanding of the decisions that have lead to this process we decided to put some questions to them. In replay we have answers from Eric Demers, from ATI's Desktop Graphics Engineering group, as well as a few comments from Richard Huddy, who brings in the perspective from their ISV relations group, which has a front line role to play with developers and who plays an important part in shaping future hardware.

 

[Jod]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/01/12/nvidia_g71_march_launch/

HAah,the arty linked to @ hexus cracked me up....

"after I pumped a humble partner for a little a bit of meat to go with my beans"

 

[Indyxc1]

I'm impressed. Faster than the Phantom Edition 512 GTX in most cases, cheaper, and 48 pixel pipelines. Nice.

Everyone should be happy, both ATI and Nvidia fans. For a while I was beginning to worry about ATI. We really need both to stay strong market competition. Imagine if ATI went out of business. The next card we'd see from Nvidia would be the 7800 ULTRA...2 years from now.

 

[JCLW]

I'm impressed. Faster than the Phantom Edition 512 GTX in most cases, cheaper, and 48 pixel pipelines. Nice.

Everyone should be happy, both ATI and Nvidia fans. For a while I was beginning to worry about ATI. We really need both to stay strong market competition. Imagine if ATI went out of business. The next card we'd see from Nvidia would be the 7800 ULTRA...2 years from now.

The X1900 only has 16 pixel pipelines. But it has 48 ALUs (arithmetic logic units).

 

[RedDragonXXX]

The X1900 only has 16 pixel pipelines. But it has 48 ALUs (arithmetic logic units).

Just for those that don't know what ALU is here is a quick explanation

The way the CPU/GPU works is through 3 things:

I/O (input / output) unit manages data and instructions entering and leaving CPU/GPU.

Control unit manages all activities inside the CPU/GPU intself.

ALU unit does all comparisons and calculations.

 

[Jod]

So it thinks better!