What you command: 2900HD XT(512) or 8800GTS 320?

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What you command: 2900HD XT(512) or 8800GTS 320?

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Has my monitor '19 inch

What 2900HD XT(512), and not 8800GTS 320 ?

2900HD XT(512) too

2900XT

here is a nice review :
http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/431/

It is what it is, and the HD 2900 XT performance wise ended up in the lower to mid part of the high-end segment. Sometimes it has a hard time keeping up with a 320MB 8800 GTS, and in other scenarios we see performance close or equal to the GeForce 8800 GTX. Now that would be weird if we all had to pay 600 USD/EUR for it. AMD knows this, and knows it very well. This is why, and honestly this is fantastic, the product is launched at a 399 MSRP. Now I have been talking with a lot of board partners already and here in Europe the product will launch at 350 EUR; and that's just golden.

So we need to leave the uber-power-frag-meister-performance idea behind us and mentally position the product where it is and compare it with the money you have to pay for it. For your mental picture; performance wise I'd say GeForce 8800 GTS 640 MB is a good comparative product (performance wise). Then the opinion will change as you'll receive absolutely a lot of bang for your bucks here. At 350 EUR you'll have a good performing DirectX 10 compatible product, new programmable tessellation unit. It comes with 512 megs of memory. It comes with a state of the art memory controller, offers HDCP straight out of the box, all cards have HDMI connectivity with support for sound and if that alone is not enough, you receive a Valve game-bundle with some very hip titles in there for free. So yeah, you really can't go wrong there.

CSS is a single title.

The question is overall, and I always say look at the games you play because the architectures play differently from game to game.

Look at even the now outdated Xbit review (can't believe it was 2+ months ago) which had better than launch drivers (like those used in the Guru3D review) but still not recent drivers. It has many more games and settings, and noitce the various wins/losses/ties for each.

//www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vi [...] games.html

Overall the HD2900XT comes out ahead, but there's obviously games/settings where the GTS will be ahead too, and sometimes dramatically, the question is which of those is the one(s) you play? Because it's all nice and good to have a cards that does A,B,C well, but if you play game Q then that's not going to help you.