OMG!! Real pics of the X2800!!!

SUP, dam i'm soo excited to post this up for all of my ATI fanboys brothers!! heres the link http://www.vr-zone.com/index.php?i=4622 . Have fun guys!!!!

L8er

dear god it's massive! 8O

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thats huge. hopefully for something that size and with those power requirements it has the beef to stand up.

240 watts... it better beats the 8800gtx balls outs. otherwise, major amd flaw

270 watts 12 inches lol. Wouldnt be suprised if this beats 8800gtx by 50% or more.

That is one ugly ooking card. I really hope ATI are innovating, and not just relying on brute power for the R600 but I fear I may be disappointed.

Nah man, like JJMan's article I posted proved, few people know how to read, they see a picture and graphs and their brains shutoff.

Exactly. OEMs don't care if it's 12 inches long as long as it doesn't mess up their power and heat envelope. There's a heck of alot of room in a case, you just need to know how to place it, and OEMs are going to want a cool quiet card more than somethig that's going to fit in an SFF Shuttle case.

damn....I mean....damnn......well if this damn brick doesn't beat the 8800 for at least 10-20% it would totally suck .

I'm betting that the cooler is what makes it 12 inches long. Look where the power ports are. If it is like the 8800 then that would be near the end of the PCB and the cooler extends beyond it because they couldn't put a fan on top of the heatpipes making it a three slot design.

I want one!!!!!! Just one... and in time for dx10 too. Maybe the drivers will work also? Wonder how much?

Damn bro 8O
That thing is monster, I like it
I will bet $50 and a box of Crispy Creme doughnuts
Nobods says that technology and fast, have to be small.
Nice thread

I mean. I mean it's just, it's...

Well, and now all together :"cross-fire".

Isn´t there some regulation forcing them to sell those high voltage devices with a fire extinguisher?

I´ll wait until i see real benchmarks showing the actual power consumption. If it really takes that much power i won´t let any of those near me - not even as a gift.

Well, **** me blue 8O ..... that thing is huge... I mean, even the 8800GTX looks comparatively tame compared to that. I placing my bets that it will at least equal the performance of the 8800GTX, because nothing that huge should have a performance any less than what Nvidia is offering and use so much power. I mean, even for retail, I would have to get a new PSU just to provide the juice this thing would require.

By the way, nice thread.... some more morsels to keep ATI fans (like myself) waiting patiently for the real thing.

Is this pron? 9 & 12 inches?? Hide it from the capt....

LOL Hope they dont come with vibration? Powerin one of those up...that gets me to thinking..4x4, 1080 watts for the gpu's....damn Ill stick (pun intended) to my blowup doll and collect the static. Anyways, this card should be killa

Any one on this forum old enough to remember 3dfx? How about the 3dfx Voodoo5 card, that wound up being stupid big for it's time. You always know that a company (Nvidia included) is pushing the limits when things get that big and that power hungry.

I understand that the fan at the end of the card is adding the length, but damn the power specs!

ok, from what i found on the most recent data on this card i made a little comparison between the 8800GTX and the X2800XTX, obviously i could be wrong and feel free to comment;

8800 GTX
Stream Processors: 128 I donno if it’s unified too
Core Clock (MHz) 575
Shader Clock: (MHz) 1350
Memory Clock: (MHz) 900
Memory Amount: 768MB GDDR3
Memory Interface: 384-bit
Memory Bandwidth: (GB/sec) 86.4 64
Texture Fill Rate: (billion/sec) 36.8


X2800XTX
Stream Processors: 64 unified
Core Clock: (MHz) 700
Shader Clock: (MHz) couldn’t find
Memory Clock: (MHz) 1000
Memory Amount: 1024MB GDDR4
Memory Interface: 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth: (GB/sec) 153.6
Texture Fill Rate: (billion/sec) I donno

l8er

Thr R600 doesn't have a independent shader clock. The shaders run at the core clock speed. The Nvidia's 128 shader's are unified.

EDIT: I sound like a monkey again.

Also the R600 does not have Stream Processors. They are 64 unified shader's that can do 128 shader operations per cycle.

Is the following benchmark of the R600 for real?

R600 Benchmark

1Gb DDR4. That is going be a huge seller to people who think video memory is everything.

I have a friend who thinks his AGP Raedeon 1950 is better than my GeForce 6600Gt PCI-Exp because he has 256mb and I only have 128mb.

He looks at a game requirements and sees requires 128MB video card and thinks he has 256 so he can play NFS Carbon full graphics no prob. The 1GB is going to help the launch of the ATI as opposed to the wierd 768MB of RAM the 8800 has.

Having a 12" OEM card is a marketing strategy I think to try and get gammers to buy into the smaller 9" retail version for more money. Lets see how that pans out. ATI may get a bad vibe going abut his and hurt their rep which is not good considering the rep AMD is in now. What I like about ATI is their video in feature. No video capture card required. If NVidia had this on all their cards they would have another chunk of ATI once again.

Did you tell him his was better because it's a faster card?

Yeah however in his case he's right, but for the wrong reason. The people getting confused are the 128mg GF7900GT people seeing the X1300-512mb and making the wrong choice.

And the 768 is of similar issue no more/less so than ATi's.

The thing is that these cards are getting to the point where they can make use of that amount of space. There's little point of hooking up either massive bandwidth with a small buffer or huge buffer to small bandwidth. Both are trying to reacht the balance. 2GB is defiitely overkill for most current and future games, but the workstation market is going to be wicked happy for the extra space on the FireGL version of the R600.

More pics at http://www.overclockers.com/articles1411/

An article today over at xbitlabs talking about Geforce 7950GT comparisons with 256Meg vs 512meg of memory, and 512meg offers *very* little over 256meg in current games. I'm guessing 1024 offers very little more as well. That might change in the future, but maybe not in the "technology lifetime" of this card.


This thing is a hog: a power hog and a space hog. Two slots is one too many, and card length was already becoming a problem in my systems.

By the time you get to $500/$600/$700+ graphics adapters, you could have a console, or a 37" LCD TV, or a nice C2D Notebook... or what have you. It would be interesting to know how many 8xxx adapters cards has sold.

The x2800 XT and XTX had better outperform the 8800 series by a wide margin. the x2800 has some major drawbacks that I think will keep enthusiasts away UNLESS it's performance margin is in the 50% area.

And ATI better pray it's midrange cards can stack up to nVidia's midrange 8xxx series.

I'm a little disappointed with ATI at this point.