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The HD 2900 Pro just sort of appeared one day.
There was no large launch event; no rash of rumors anticipated its arrival. The HD 2900 Pro's release wasn't preceded by press-release, fanfare, or parade. The card just sort of happened. You might have heard about it on the net, but if you weren't paying attention the card may have just slipped under the radar. Come and gone before anyone was the wiser.
Priced competively against the 320 MB 8800 GTS video cards, the HD 2900 Pro has a great deal in common with ATI's top-of-the-line HD 2900 XT. In fact, what most intrigued us was the fact that the 2900 Pro had the exact same number of stream processors as the top of the line card, and from all appearances only differed from the more expensive 2900 XT by clock speeds and a more affordable price point.
Today we are looking at one of these out-of-nowhere cards, send to us by our friends from PowerColor, and you're going to see why you ought to be excited by this sleeper hit. So let's get started!
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Because we almost never overclock video cards here at Neoseeker (which may change btw, I'll see) I didn't have the figures handy to through the overclocked GTS on the chart.
I would've liked to overclocked the Asus EN8800 GTS -- or even tested out maybe an out-of-the-box overclocked card we have in our hardware repository, such as our BFG cards -- but ran short of time.
It was sort of a last minute decision to even have the overclocked HD2900 Pro results in there - but then myself and Red decided that it would be good to throw'em in there because the great overclocking potential of the card.
Anyways..! In a future situation like this, I'll have the overclocked results of any card that the review card is 'up against.'
But BTW, I did overclock the EN8800 GTS to see what kind of performance increase I could get (just wasn't able to do the whole suit of tests.) I got about a %10 overclock from the card, which (very roughly) would translate into somewhere around a %10 FPS increase in games (..roughly!).
Which is okay, but nothing close to the sheer nutty overclock of around %35 that was reached with our HD 2900 Pro.
Thanks for your comments.
Because sometimes you can find virtually the same card with the same specs but underclocked and at a lower price that can be overclocked to the higher clocked model or even further without making any changes to voltage or third party cooling.
Edit: Wow that was written really poorly.
This message was edited by DEZVOUS on Oct 11 2007.
Very High-Low Quality Comparisons
Crysis looks awesome even on medium and I'm already playing at high with my x1800xt512. So with updated final drivers and a more stable final code once it's released I'm going to be more than happy with what I'm seeing and playing. I mean I don't have Vista and don't plan on upgrading anytime soon so I wouldn't benefit from DX10 support anyways.
Phew, that was a close one, almost just spent $350 that I definitely didn't need, I was that close.