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  • Eddy01741

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    Official release date of X1900/7900

    Does anybody here know when teh official release dates will be for these new cards? I'm just wonderin cause i'm thinking of getting a newer graphics card.
  • [DC]M4guy624

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    Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

    Originally posted by Eddy01741
    Does anybody here know when teh official release dates will be for these new cards? I'm just wonderin cause i'm thinking of getting a newer graphics card.
    i keep hearing jan 24th for the X1900

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    • imported_Wreck

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      Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

      Originally posted by [DC]M4guy624
      i keep hearing jan 24th for the X1900
      Yes, and March for the 7900.

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      • Eddy01741

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        Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

        Originally posted by [DC]M4guy624
        i keep hearing jan 24th for the X1900
        Wow, that's in five days, i hope it comes out soon, cause then the prices for the X1800XT and X1800XL will drop. That's what i'm really after, not the X1900, but the X1800 series when teh price drops.

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        • imported_Wreck

          #5
          Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

          I think it's hitting the stores already. At least the XT is:

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          • Eddy01741

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            Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

            Originally posted by Wreck
            I think it's hitting the stores already. At least the XT is:

            http://www.actbuy.com/details.asp?item=SA10X1900XT%2D5
            Interesting, they say it has 48 pipelines, i thought it had 48 shader units or something like that. THanx for link though.

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            • cloakster
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              • Nov 2006
              • 1396

              #7
              Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

              does it actually have 48 pipes? WOW if it does

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              • AlphexHunter

                #8
                Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                witch one do you think is gonna be stronguer X1900, or 7900??
                i'd say 7900....coz of sli if u link 2 of them....but i dont know much about crossfire well it hasen't show'd off anything yet..

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                • rombaft

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                  Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                  actualy the x1900 series has no pipes, it are pixelprocessors , it they say it has 48 of them .

                  But don't stare only at the pipes or whatever please, if you have 100 pipes in your card, and one pipe can do like 8000 calculations a sec , and you have another card who has only 10 pipes but it can do 100000 calculations a pipe, well guess who is the fastest card ?? hope you get what I mean, it doesn't mean the card has 48 pipes or whatever , that it will be like 3 times faster then the curent 16 pipes card

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                  • imported_Wreck

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                    Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                    Originally posted by cloaker
                    does it actually have 48 pipes? WOW if it does
                    "The R580 has 48 pixel shader processors, 8 or more vertex processors and works at high clock-speeds. The chip, however, is expected to have 16 texture mapping units (TMU), less that could be expected. The product is to support Shader Model 3.0, ring-bus memory controller that supports GDDR4 memory type and other innovations."

                    I think that since the 7900 will be released later it's bound to be better. It seems whoever comes out last has the upper hand of being able to tweak their card to beat the competitior.

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                    • Flanker

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                      Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                      Ok, to end this BS once and for all; THE X1900XT ONLY HAS 16 PIPELINES. Kthx.

                      48 pixel processors != 48 pipelines.

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                      • imported_Wreck

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                        Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                        Originally posted by Flanker
                        Ok, to end this BS once and for all; THE X1900XT ONLY HAS 16 PIPELINES. Kthx.

                        48 pixel processors != 48 pipelines.
                        Yeah it's amazing that it's gonna beat a 7800 512 with only 16 pipes.

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                        • Blak_Phoenix

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                          Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                          Has anyone been able to find any benchmarks on it yet? I'd love to see how it does perform.

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                          • imported_Wreck

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                            Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                            Originally posted by Blak_Pheonix_MB
                            Has anyone been able to find any benchmarks on it yet? I'd love to see how it does perform.
                            Note that the X1900 XT isn't the fastest version of the R580 out. The X1900 XTX will be faster. Below are some XT results:



                            3Dmark 05

                            Stock FX-60 + Stock X1900XT : 11144

                            Stock FX-60 + OCed X1900XT : 12152

                            FX-60 @ 2.85Ghz + OCed X1900XT : 12615

                            More info:



                            Here are all the cards for sale:

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                            • Blak_Phoenix

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                              Re: Official release date of X1900/7900

                              Sweet thx, and i sooo cant wait for the new 7900, it clocks alot faster than the x1900, but i wonder if that will give it the edge or not.....

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