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| | (Post a comment) » ATI RADEON X850 XT 512MB Technology PreviewYesterday at the Texas Gaming Festival, in Dallas, Texas, we watched ATI demonstrate their first consumer-level 512MB graphics card, the RADEON X850 XT 512MB HD. See what changes ATI has made to the 512MB board, what it looks like, as well as an indication of how it performs and when it will be available in this article! UPDATE 2/28: Article has been updated with ATI's performance numbers for the X850 XT 512MB, X850 XT 256, and X850 XT PE in DOOM 3 Ultra quality mode, Half-Life 2, and Far Cry |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 01:24am 03/5/2005
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This is #$!$#&&! instead of 512MB just go to 1gig memory video cards
anything over 30FPS is ok anything below you lag..
Great to get 10-20 FPS but still you wouldnt notice anything.
I bought my Radeon 9200 PCI 128MB runs Doom 3 around 25-30FPS low
settings ect, All I need to do is upgrade my CPU to at least a 4.0
that would make every game run.
If you want to be part of gaming dont go out and buy the newest
thing, upgrade all you current stuff
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Anonymous at 10:40am 03/3/2005
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i think this is a good! Maybe not for the X850 core but someone has
to start building 512mb cards if we want to reach Photorealisme in
games!
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Anonymous at 10:07am 03/1/2005
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60fps Limit WtFooy you talking about?
are you trying to imply that D00M3 has an FPS govener?
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Yoshi (View my Profile) at 08:04am 03/1/2005
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Probably the reason why the jump is so small is because it would
take a beast of a machine to really get the game running at Ultra
Quality and by then you hit the 60fps limit.
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cordas at 07:55am 03/1/2005
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I think you missread what I meant.
Having a 64mb card in your machine now is fine for most games, what
I said is would you buy a NEW 64MB graphics card for a GAMING
machine. You would be wasting your money doing that, even buying a
128mb card will affect your future gaming. (Unless you have no
intrest in playing Doom4, Far Cry 2, Half Life 3, XXXX Total War,
Age of "Empires" 3, Elder Scrolls 4, NWN 2 e.t.c. or any
other graphicaly intensive NEW game that will be released before you
upgrade your graphics card again.)
I recently bought a 32mb gfmx4 for my mums machine, however it won't
play any more challenging games than solitare or minesweeper. I only
bought that card because it was in a bargin bucket at my local
retailer, otherwise I would have bought a cheaper 64mb one. For her
web browsing, email and word proccessing its far more than powerful
enough. It replaced an old old (and much loved) 8mb Matrox g200 that
finaly gave up the ghost and died.
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slash3 at 09:28pm 02/28/2005
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I like it how Doom 3 showed a miniscule jump in performance when
going from 256MB to 512MB in Ultra mode - supposedly the posterboy
for 512MB video cards.
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deimos47 at 08:12pm 02/28/2005
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Exactly... (very well put)
There are two groups of people. The first, is unlikely to come to
these forumns or worry about what all those MBs will be filled with.
With so much money, when they are done, they'll probably use it to
patch the hole in the doghouse roof.
Second group is people who try to get the most for their dollar.
They realize that you can setup a benchmark to show all sorts of
crazy numbers, but in reality, paying $$$ for something that will
increase performance a couple % of the time, and couple years down
the line just doesnt make sense.
The vast majority of gfx cards today are 128MB, and consequently
that is what developers will design for. I can give you my personal
assurance that no games in the next 12 months will require 512MB.
Sure it would be cool to brag to EVERYBODY that you have one, and
play at 2048x1536 6xAA and the works (you do have a monitor that
supports that, right?), but unless you crank up the resolution and
AA really high, you just wont see much difference from 256MB cards,
even 128MB.
If you're looking for value and great performance, pick up a 6600GT.
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specter at 06:48pm 02/28/2005
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Funny that the game that boasted "Setting made for 512 mb cards
WHEN THEY COME OUT" actually gets the smallest performance
increase out of the 512 mb card... Obviously we now know how
"scalable" doom 3's engine really is.
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Anonymous at 04:14pm 02/28/2005
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i will buy 1 just so i have 1
hehe
:-)
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