![]() An early driver issue, but the fact remains. It can't even run Half Life 2 - a three year-old game, now - at better than 41FPS at 1680 x 1050, and it refused to fire up 3DMark 2006 on our test rig. See the benchmarks over yonder, and weep. ![]() And did we mention that card's middling games performance?ĪTI's new midrange offering can't match NVIDIA's effort in the framerate stakes. The HD2900XT has been launched at a near-identical price-point to the 8600GT. On the other, it's a worry - 65nm production process aside, exactly how much clout can an unpowered card really muster?Īnd the answer, unsurprisingly, is not much. On the one hand, this is a good thing less power consumption means a more efficient PC. Somewhat curiously, the card doesn't require any powering beyond that from the PCI-E bus no six-pin plug socket, not even a winky-wee Molex. Another key comparison point is the number of ROPs - 4x2, rather than the HD2900XT's 16x2. Sadly, the memory bus is a weedy 128-bit - the same as the 8600GT - and given that the less-than-stellar HD2900XT featured a 512-bit bus, one immediately feels the eyebrows dropping.
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