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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Wednesday, 23 May 2007 |
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As usual, AMD relied on intelligent features and advanced architecture rather than nVidia's approach of raw power. The problem always was and will be that, although the card supports many features, they might remain unused, unless the programmers implement them. That is, of course, dependant on the budget of the development teams, which are often endorsed by the manufacturers themselves. Strictly unofficially, there are rumours circulating that nVidia invested a significantly larger sum of money compared to AMD. Time is to show whether that's true. At this time, the author of this article remains assured that it is too early to draw conclusions.
The primary reason is the lack of available DirectX 10 games to rely and test on. What should also be noted is that we received an engineer example of the card and that the drivers are also not polished to the max, as they most certainly will be in the future, providing better results. The current situation is such that this card is a damn fine rival of the 8800GTS, whereas it is not AMD that kicked the 8800GTX of the throne, but nVidia itself! With 8800 Ultra on the market, nVidia is another step ahead of AMD, but so far we can only look at the preliminary results.
Although the card at hand is awfully late, the HD 2900XT deserves a praise for all the advanced options the competition doesn't have. Also, the R600 seems to be a fine basis for future models. It is only a matter of software development, the hardware part is a great job.
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