Now you see HIS' 2900 XT page, now you don't.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 11:03:24 Fri, May 04, 2007

The webmasters over at HIS apparently let their HD 2900 XT page loose a little too early back on Wednesday May 2nd. Luckly for ATi afficianadoes, the dudes over at techPowerUp! took screenshots of the page for posterity. I present these images for your perusal.

9 Comments

Friday, May 04, 2007 1:44:29 PM

Wraithdagger
guest

Does this finally mean 8800GTS price drops? =)

Friday, May 04, 2007 2:53:02 PM

KARacing
Member

Well they show it @ 80nm which means is will be a power pig and a heater.... I would think after the delay they would just scrap the 80nm in favor of the 65nm.... Unless it is going to be another 3 month (or more) before they are ready.... Delays Delays....

Friday, May 04, 2007 4:03:52 PM

Wraithdagger
guest

If it's taken them this long to produce a literally butchered card, (only 512mb RAM, 80nm core, large power consumption, etc, etc) it'll take them another forever just to buff it up. =( Poor ATI... they had a good run.

Friday, May 04, 2007 6:05:02 PM

anonymous
guest

GDDR3... Damn . I guess , if this card is going to be priced high , it may outperform a 8800GTS but the GTS will be cheaper and people would prefer that .

Friday, May 04, 2007 8:07:01 PM

Stormcrow
guest

Its supposed to be priced at around $399 MSRP, which puts it at the same point as as the 640MB GTS.

Friday, May 04, 2007 8:32:55 PM

anonymous
guest

Hello? McFly you in there.... The last gen ATI/AMD cards still own and hold their own against the newest Nvidia cards so I would not worry about ATI/AMD at this point. These cards are ahead of their time and will probably do much better in the newer games yet to be released.

Saturday, May 05, 2007 10:29:16 AM

This is obviously bullshit.
320 SP's? Come on! Who the heck is going to believe that?

Saturday, May 05, 2007 4:13:30 PM

Mike
GPUReview Founder

There's no rule as to how these things must be counted. But if you think about it, it makes sense. 320 @ ~700MHz would be comparable to nVidia's 128 @ 1.35GHz. Then from there, nVidia is just more efficient because they're scalar.

Or it could be something completely different...who knows.

Monday, May 07, 2007 4:37:11 AM

anonymous
guest

This card is probably going to disappoint a little. I'm sure it'll still haul, but I doubt it'll be worth all this wait. But, I'm sure ATI's not going anywhere. Nvidia is definitely getting carried away with their crown. Reminds one of Caesar, no?

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