The bundle that ATI bundles with their card is pretty spectacular. You get two pieces in the packages that are completely new and intriguing. First is a game voucher for the Valve developed games Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2, which has been been rumored to be in production as back early as 2004 when Counter Strike: Source was released. This deal between ATI and Valve seems to exclusive for the time being. So for anyone who purchases the 2900XT during its launch will be among the first people to play the new game whne it's released. This is an absolutely terrific addition to the card.
The second new piece of this package is the HDMI dongle. There are other HDMI converters out on the market right now but ATI claims that the specific one included with the 2900XT is capable of carrying video
and audio feeds. So while this dongle converts one of the DVI ports on the 2900XT, it acts as a full functional HDMI port. So add that to the fact that the 2900XT also has an audio controller for native support for audio (which is depicted on the preview page), and this card has amazing potential.
The rest of the bundled hardware can be seen below.
The cluster of cards we tested against the 2900XT (running with the ATI beta Catalyst 8.37.4.2 drivers):
The HD 2900XT is now ATI new flagship card, so we've added four extra benchmarks settings to our regular setup:
- 1920x1200
- 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF
- 2048x1536
- 2048x1536 4xAA/16xAF
The benchmark system used consist of:
The benchmarks used for testing were:
- 3DMark 2006
- Far Cry
- Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
- DOOM 3
- Quake 4
- F.E.A.R.
- Prey
- X3
- Company of Heroes
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