'Almost' - because the series lacks the fastest solution to compete in the High-End segment. And now the long-awaited moment has come - today AMD is going to announce almost an entire series. In our recent review of G84 and G86 we complained that NVIDIA had launched High-End solutions long ago, other GPUs based on the unified G8x architecture followed in spring, but similar DirectX 10 solutions from AMD were not even announced yet.

Perhaps, the new series from ATI will please many users (including product prices), and the delay of the AMD's Canadian department will not be fatal.Īnd now Alexei Berillo will tell us about all innovations of this architecture: We should add that there are almost no games for DX10, so we cannot know the layout of forces in the new games. HD 2900 XT (R600) can compete only with GeForce 8800 GTS, and it will have a matching price. Besides, there is no top product to compete with the fastest accelerator from NVIDIA. Hence the problems with the launch of DX10 family from ATI. AMD has bought ATI with a distant goal - to focus on integrated solutions - the future is theirs. Market analysis reports periodically published by competent companies also prove it. We don't want to sound sad, but the past events indicate that the ATI/AMD's business of video cards is slowly fading. But we'll be able to learn about the real capacities of these products only in July. Today we'll publish only their general description and theory. Hence the delay with the announcement.Īnd finally the announcement has been made! But the Canadians (or are they Americans now?) have problems again - now with Mid-End cards. By the time everything was ready, some people in AMD decided to time the launch of the top product to the launch of the entire series of Mid-End video cards. Organizational and personnel matters required some time to settle, which slowed the R600 development down.

We understand all difficulties that have to do with the merger with AMD.

ATI has offered no top products for almost a year and a half already.

The Californian company has already launched Mid-End video cards with DX10 support, and the competitor was still silent. They were top products from NVIDIA (GeForce 8800 GTX is still the fastest card (it even has an overclocked modification - 8800 Ultra)). We all know that the first video cards supporting DirectX 10 appeared in the end of 2006. Testbed configuration, list of benchmarks.

Ati radeon 2400 xt specs