The “Break it Down” Blog

DailyTech got their hands on the new and shiny ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX, which is the DX10 card from ATI that everyone has been waiting for. Even with 1GB of ram and some decent clock speeds, the benchmarks suggest that ATI decided to release a giant video card that can’t even come close to matching the already released NVIDIA 8800 GTX.

Taking a look at some of the benchmarks are a bit painful, for example:

•  Half-Life 2, Episode 1 @ 1600×1200
  
• NVIDIA 8800 GTX:134.2
• ATI HD 2900 XTX: 91.5

The list continues on and DailyTech give some more benchmarks all the way up to 1920×1200, but the story stays the same. The 8800 just trounces all over the ATI part, while supporting DX 10, seems to be performing on par with last-gen parts.

Wow… ATI and AMD are taking a pounding from NVIDIA and Intel.