ATI Launches 'Fastest and Most Powerful Graphics Card Available Today'

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• Yeah i agree with you there if it doen't do at least 60FPS on very high @ 1680X1050 i don't want to even... : Curium244

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• Yup, that shit is retarded : FiReaNG3L
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  I can't believe AMD and Nvidia get away with these kind of ridiculous deceptive charts. I guess it's cons... : Kazomir
  • Try all industries, everywhere. : walker270
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  The graph has no units, either. For all I know the Y axis represents ranges from 0.8 to 2.2 gigabytes of ... : nudel
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    Why? It's a marketing tool. They want people to look at the chart and say "Wow ATI's is much faster!" w... : walker270
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      They should have the living shit sued out of them and probably would be by Advertising Standards if they ... : nudel
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        Actually, it's not lying -- it's playing on people's perceptions. Cropping graphs to highlight the impor... : walker270
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          Whatever. Anyone who makes a graph like that should be taken outside and set fire to from now on. No excu... : nudel
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            I think it would be better to execute the people who buy into that crap at face value. They're the ones ... : walker270
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              How can you justify something by stating that "everyone does it"? That's just a completely retarded argum... : hamliga
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                I think you both may mean DILUTING. Just FYI. ;) : PWN3D U
                • Guess that was too subtle a point... :-) : hamliga
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                An individual should be responsible for analyzing and determining the validity of a company's marketing. ... : walker270
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                  So should Snake Oil salesmen be allowed to freely advertise their products as AIDS cures and to hell with... : nudel
                  • There's a different between outright lying (what you just mentioned), and displaying legitimate figures i : walker270
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                  It's a question of ethics, not whether government should regulate advertisement or not. It's a degree of ... : hamliga
                  • Above nudel mentioned they should be sued by a government agency. : walker270
        • Neither lying nor manipulating are very nice things. But the former seems to get you in more trouble tha... : Gwyndion
      • yup.. cunts all around I guess (not a porn link :P ) http://www.geeks3d.com/public/jegx/200806/geforce-28... : Jockiboy
• Yeah, that chart is amazing... : walker270
• I can't recall the last time I saw a bar graph where 85% of the vertical space is a scaled representation... : prostyle
• Haha indeed. : pigvomit
• These graphs should not be linked without a statement... : matthaeus
• I noticed that as well. It's completely retarded and 100% designed to mislead. : OverloadUT
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  What is that thing even comparing? I don't see anything on the image or in the article that states wha... : Twist of Cain
  • Terraflops. I like that word. : pigvomit
• three times the bar of the leading brand. : Turd Ferguson
• But the red penis is so much bigger than the stubby green penis. : jtthe2nd
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  The funny thing is at super high res, it could easily be 10 vs 16 fps... whoopee! : SeaLlama
  • Its like they just chopped off the tops of the chart and SUPER ZOOMED IN!!! : IHATEDUST

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  Seriously! GPU retail boxes always have such lame, cheesy, "my 1st 3D model" artwork. : code-e255
  • Its all the Asian brands with the crappy art. XFX, BFG, EVGA all keep it nice and simple. : aznboysix
• Haha yeah that I noticed the robofrog too - wheres that ATI chick? : aznboysix
• I thought the cybernetic frog was cool :( : Shai-Tan

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  "That statement, ATI explained, is based on the card's 'extreme top score of 6920' in the 3DMark Vantage ... : Chris Faylor
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    Ya I guess that is true but does it make it the fastest card just because of one benchmark? Its funny... : valcan_s
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      You're doing the same thing; basing whether or not a card is faster on a single benchmark. The only bench... : zerog83
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        My point is that there are still other applications that the bran new ATI card is not the fastest in, the... : valcan_s
        • However, you just claimed that "the9800 GX2 is still the fastest GPU on the market." So what exactly are ... : abovedefault
        • GPUs are almost never faster than the competition in every benchmark. Even the 8800 GTX, which thrashed A... : thesubtlesnake
• It's only Crysis where this card lacks performance. I think in basically every other game it dominates. : 5150Joker
• Umm, you are looking at that completely wrong. There are a few setups faster then the 9800gx2, They didn... : notext
• Consider the fact that Crysis has the multi-GPU scaling of Pong before you go screaming that they're wron... : AlexW1203
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  It'll only be the fastest until Nvidia releases a g280 x2 card..and then that will "dominate" all other c... : oscrogo
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    Problem!!! The g280 generates the heat of a miniture nuclear reactor. Basically, too many of those too cl... : Skyburst101
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      Nvidia makes the 9xxx series cards on a smaller process and is probably working on producing the 280 chip... : Old_Fart
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        Only the 9800 GTX+ is 55nm. All others are 65nm, and the + still produces the same amount of heat and pre... : AlexW1203
        • I was pretty sure the 9500s were also on the 55nm process, are they not? : Old_Fart

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• But not on Crysis. Scroll down. : IHATEDUST
• In those tests, the card was only outperformed in Flight Simulator X, which always had quirky performance... : thesubtlesnake
• so we got more than one sources of graphics cards?i mean which is the bestest if compare in price? : stevanosblade

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• Whoever made the original is a douche or had Jury Dury. : intothefray
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  I just played through Call of Juarez, actually. It is pretty demanding in DX10 mode with everything maxe... : pyrogen
  • Ah. It's still kind of weird to include in their benchmarks because it's an older game and built on a pro... : OverloadUT
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  What I'm curious about is how this compares to the 9800x2? I'm a huge Nvidia fanboy and I must admit tha... : silverback1138
  • IIRC, It's about equivalent or slightly outperforms the 280. : Sailor of Fortune
• Nice job on the graph. And....No matter who's side you guys are on there is no doubt this card is still a... : Bitcrush

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• ATI naming scheme is way better then Nvidias... : easeup
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  Don't you know? HD is the new Buzzword. HD is apparently synonymous with "must have item" to John Q Publi... : menar003
  • yeah, I need to get some of those "HD" sunglasses... : jimvolk
• ATI GIANT FAGGOT : mega man

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• 550 was the number I saw. : aznboysix

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• Actually in game benchmarks are very reliable, and more accurate than running around FRAPS. People might ... : JasonReece

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• this fan thing needs to turn into a fad and then promptly go out of style >:( : giantshift
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  What's the point of being a fanboy these days? Biases based off of internet-cultural-hate that were deve... : Defacil
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    That's funny because I've owned both Nvidia and ATi cards and have had no heat issues with the ATi cards ... : Begawkiness
    • I've had the opposite experience with my friends. I only have one friend who is a straight up ATI fan bu... : silverback1138
    • Yup, just replaced the stock fan on my nVidia card because it died. : Fred Garvin
    • I had an ATI / ASUS card with two fans on it and one of the fans melted off, I shit you not. o.O Could... : nudel
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  Nvidia is not losing at all what are you talking about: The old tech 9800 GX2 is still the fastest GPU... : valcan_s
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    Cherry pick much. Crysis is the only game where nvidia wins. Not surprising since they spent so much tiem... : guyver-za
    • Yeah, like Call of Juarez. The 6 people who bought that game will undoubtedly be ecstatic with the new Ra... : Tommy Toolbag
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      Its redundant if I cherry pick, the data on this link http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/ATI-Radeon-HD-4... : valcan_s
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        And the data on this page confirms it. http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/ATI-Radeon-HD-4870-X2--AMD-Ba... : guyver-za
        • Looking at the basic results. I'm no expert or anything but it looks more of a mixed bag. HL2 is the o... : silverback1138
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  Nvidia actually makes drivers that work. Hardware malfunction errors are not funny. : Kristian Joensen
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    ehh ... nvidia's early vista drivers weren't exactly top quality stuff : qwpeoriu
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      That's because they didn't expect Microsoft to ship Vista in the time table they did. So far they're goi... : silverback1138
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        WTF? Vista was in beta for forever yet NVidia didn't even offer drivers -- not even beta ones -- for some... : nudel
        • That's the thing, Nvidia expected them to delay again then when Microsoft did ship Vista, they were caugh... : silverback1138
  • Funny, my ATI cards also work. : Fred Garvin
  • "Hardware malfunction errors"? : thesubtlesnake
• Well, if this whole G92 and G94 GPU failure/recall stuff really starts blowing up, AMD putting out better... : oscrogo

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  Some people like to have advanced control over their hardware. I don't see how they should remove the fun... : Kazomir
  • Oh, and you might like: http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html : Kazomir
  • They used to have all of that advanced functionality on one easy to use page in the display properties. N... : ArB
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    You don't know what you're talking about. ATI's control panel is a horrible horrible bloated memory and ... : Fpsnut
    • Welcome to pebmac. : AgentPothead
  • just because some people like to have advanced control over their hardware doesn't mean that ATI or NVidi... : the archvile
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  NVIDIA has a horrible piece of shit like this too now. It's unavoidable. Both companies took a huge step ... : ArB
  • Oh the ATI one is much, much worse. I have both, and I am not particularly fond of either control panel, ... : nudel

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  in fact they have. Check this out "Early report that AMD has killed the Microstuttering. http://www.... : duffman03
  • Would this apply to 4870's in crossfire as well, or only this card? : deadhorse

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• If its still the same, crossfire is always in play. : notext
• These cards are aimed at people with 24-30" LCD screens, in which case you can see just about everything ... : duffman03

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• The 4870x2 is actually two chips in one card, not just two cards crammed together. Plus the GTX280 and t... : duffman03

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  I have always bought Nvidia. I never buy top-end cards, and the midrange solutions are usually so evenly ... : CasbahBoy
  • ATi's mid-range are absolutely fantastic right now. Unless you store paper in your GPU coolers, in which ... : AlexW1203
• It doesn't even matter to me who in on top at the time. All that matters to me is who has the best bang f... : sinclair4217
• I just buy what fits my needs and budget and is getting good reviews. : Fred Garvin

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• All I wanna know. : rodriwoh
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  Nothing will ever have enough power to run the famed Daikatana. Speaking of which, what was the name of t... : 5150Joker
  • Her Doom handle was Killcreek. : quanta88
  • Stevie Case. : mittense
  • nice big fake titties tho... to match romeros fuckin weave/hair extensions. : syn0r
• More importantly, will it run Trespasser? I can hardly contain my pee >.< : Alpha Geist

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• No, ATI announced the information on the card in a press release, then we cited TechReport for the detail... : Chris Faylor

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  Effective 1gig thou.... : ShadowRam
  • Yeah. It is pretty lame they are marketing it like that. : billy_zelsnack

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• Haha what a silly typo. Shouldn't that be Car of Dury? : pigvomit