Radeon HD 2900 Pro and GT to arrive on this planet soon.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 12:11:08 Thu, September 20, 2007

Apparently a few days ago HIS put up a page for the new HD 2900 Pro. For some reason I am unable to access any of HIS' pages from work today so I am currently unable to view the page myself. I do however have some information that I have located elsewhere.

(UPDATE) After running the parser, I discovered that GeCube has a page up for their HD 2900 Pro as well. I don't want to shock you... but it looks exactly like HIS' HD 2900 Pro!

According to techPowerUp!, the HD 2900 Pro is simply an underclocked HD 2900 XT and HIS is recommending a price of $249. techPowerUP! was also awesome enough to post the following picture:

HIS HD 2900 Pro specs Credit to TechPowerUp

HD 2900 Pro and 2900 GT specs

So if the clock speeds of the Pro are 600/1600, what do you guys think the speeds of the GT will be?

9 Comments

Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:59:54 PM

anonymous
guest

YAY! Midrange is making a comeback!

Thursday, September 20, 2007 2:17:03 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

256bit memory interface ? -.-" I guess this is supposed to be a mid-high range card , not anything at high-end . Although , it consumes a lot of power for a mid-range card . And the HD 2900 GT with 240 stream processors is supposed to be the newer low-mid end card . Probably going to compete against the upcoming G92 . I sincerely hope they fixed the broken Multi Sampling hardware units . The GT will probably be slightly slower even . Perhaps 550/1500 ? Maybe a little lower even . One second thought , considering it's 256bit and not 512, I guess the memory will be close to 2000 mhz . The site and the first picture say 512bit memory interface , but the lowest picture says 256 bit . o.O?

Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:55:07 PM

Mach5Motorsport
n00b

I saw that too. 256 or 512? Who do you believe???? AMD or HIS?

Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:26:15 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

Well , if both of them are 256bit , then ATi/AMD just forefitted one of their two strengths . If it's the same chip , I highly doubt that the broken MSAA units are fixed .

Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:36:50 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

They are not both 256 bit. The Pro is 512 bit because both HIS and GeCube say so.

Friday, September 21, 2007 7:41:02 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

That's good .
But since the GT is 256bit , I suppose it'll be clocked close to 2 ghz . Core , I think a bit lower than the Pro .

Friday, September 21, 2007 9:32:16 AM

anonymous
guest

Excellent! Good thing I didn't buy the X1950PRO!

Friday, September 21, 2007 9:35:33 AM

anonymous
guest

Does this mean the 2900PRO will only need a single PCIE 6pin power source?

Friday, September 21, 2007 9:38:02 AM

Steve
The Progenitor

@anonymous I think so. ~75 Watts from the motherboard and 75 Watts from the PCI-E connector sounds about right.

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