With leading-edge graphics cards getting
more and more dedicated RAM shoved onto their PCBs, it's only surprising that it has taken this long for a 1GB single GPU card to hit the market. Diamond Multimedia has just announced the launch of its Radeon
HD 2900 XT 1GB, which packs a full gigabyte of
GDDR4 memory, second-generation unified shader architecture, 512-bit memory interface, integrated CrossFire scalability, and built-in HDMI support. Moreover, it also includes ATI's Avivo display technology, dual-link DVI output, HDCP compliance, and DirectX 10 support. No word just yet on what kind of premium you'll be expected to pay for this momentary claim of superiority, but we'd wait for the benchmarks to see if it's even
worth the extra coin.
posted Jun 11th 2007 4:44AM
Science H. Logic! $800 perhaps?
It might be worth the cash if the manufacturer reverses the system used by integrated graphic cards and makes the RAM useable by the system
1 gig of video dedicated RAM is like Magnum condoms, a lot of people will buy them but only a handful really need them.
Well with all the GPGPU things going on it doesn't matter whether games would use that much, in research more is always better.
Extreme-PC (www.extreme-pc.ca) already has 1 GB HD2900 XTs. And they retail for $649.95(CAD)
at last, flame-like graphics on my graphics card and 1GB ram to impress my friends.