ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT: need next-gen games to arrive

May 21, 2007 | Filed under Computer Hardware, Computers 

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
The ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is an amazing product at the top of the graphics cards list, but it seems a card before its time as we are still waiting for the next-gen games to arrive.

The built-in audio chip will send audio directly out the HDMI adapter which streamlines home-theater PC setups.
Although the Radeon HD 2900 XT is not the best graphics card it has to be said that next-gen performance is way too early to call and the competing brand NVIDIA has a similar card for $50 less.

Some people have said that the Radeon HD 2900 XT gets very hot and is noisy, power-hungry and not well-suited for smaller home-theater PCs.

Once the next-gen games to arrive and we have some more mature drivers then will be able to give the award to the 3D graphics card winner.
If you are a home theater enthusiast then this card is built just for you in mind, other than that I would wait it out to see the results once better games arrive.

The Main Features Are:

  • New video processing that includes bitstream decoding for H.264 and VP-1
  • Programmable tessellation unit
  • Improved render back-ends, with faster Z-buffer and stencil performance as well as programmable anti-aliasing resolution
  • Improved texture fetch units, especially for floating point textures
  • 320 unified scalar stream processors, in 64 groups of five
  • 512-bit memory bus on a new bidirectional ring bus design

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