I'd say this 1.018 Teraflops are entirely synthetic (Quick & Dirty estimate by the Brooktree Compiler)

If 10% of that is uable for general Purpose (realistic), that'd be still an okay number

[humour]

Take laptop...

Take hacksaw...

Cut out screen...

Wire-up screen to external ATI card...

...problem solved! 8)

[/humour]

ROFL!

Well I have been testing the Command & Conquer3 demo on my X1900 XTX + X1950 XTX CrossFire Edition CrossFire setup at maxx details @ reso 1440x 900 x32 FSAA x14, AF x16HQ, Adaptive AA as HDR at max settings, so here the results:




I must say that Direcx9.0c still looks very demanding! Just look at all that Motion Blur!
Thanx to 3dfx we have that technology in our modern graphics accelerators of today. 8)

The Crossfire setup handles this game in these insane settings without a problem and quite fluid gameplay as well, not bad for 2 R580 based cards, since that the R580 was designed back in Q4 2005, my X1900 XTX is a Rev.B 0552, it's from week 52 year 2005 but it was released Q1 2006.

Okay I must admit that the X1950 XTX CrossFire Edition has a R580+ GPU only difference is the 256Bit GDDR4, Bios chip as Cooler, for the rest it's very identical it's a Rev.B 0629 year 2006 week 29 which was released begin Q3 2006

The X1950 XTX as X1950 XTX CFE were designed to test the GDDR4 memory type with the 512Bit Ringbus memory controller of the R580 VPU, and this test kinda proved it's great success.

The X1950 XTX CFE combined with the X1900 XTX really makes a very powerfull 3D render unit, delivering a max memory bandwidth of 115,4 GB per sec, there by beating a single GeForce 8800 GTX, which only does 84,6 GB per sec max.

The more memory bandwidth the more fps and better gameplay with max FSAA +Adaptive AA + AFHQ + HDR settings at high reso's as what I kinda found out by using this combination in C&C3 as Flight Simulator X and that's kinda future proof for an old architechture like that of the R580.

I wonder how futureproof the R600 will be, since a single X2900 XTX will do 153,4 GB per sec while a single X2900 XT will deliver 143.2 GB per sec, also not too shabby.

My next step is a crossfire setup of 2 X2900 XTX cards but that will be later this year

well I kinda forgot the MipMap settings hahah no wonder why it was so blurry!

so now it looks like this with max Mip mapping image quallity and yes it looks alot better espeacially the details and so on.


click to enlarge

Still Red Alert2 + Yuri's Revenge is my big favour of all C&C's though C&C3 TW is the best 3D C&C ever

The fist notebok is ready from MSI btw
ut has a RV630M in it orsay ATi Radeon X2600 XT M with an AMD Turion64 X2 kind of a logic setup since the AMD + ATi Co-Op.


here some new shots of the X2900 XTX Retail card from VR-Zone



here the source:
http://resources.vr-zone.com/newspics/Mar0...R600-vrzone.jpg

The Good news is that the X2900 XT PCI-E 512MB GDDR3 will be about 500 euro's when it hit's the shelves, which is good news for the lads that are going for that card type
Got this from the dutch ATi news & Discussion topic @ Gathering Of Tweakers.net which was posted by user CJ
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1203478/3

On the CeBiT AMD showed a new Physics demo this time the physics demo was developed togeather with Havok which took usage of the first HavokFX engine which ran on an X1900 XTX, the first game that is going to utilize this technology is called Hellgate: London, which will be also the first DX10 game to launch which supports HavokFX.

while rendering the physics demo on a CPU it only got 3 to 13 fps when the X1900 XTX was used as astream processor with HavokFX the FPS were greatly increased by 40 to 100fps!


So thanx to this the R600 will be on time for the latest DX10 titles where it was actually designed for, so the delay isn't that bad as it seemed to be in the first place
here's the source:
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?article_id=571782

yeaps they sure do read that in the dutch ATi forums as well

that GeCube card is simply an OC'ed X1950XT which runs core/mem @ 648Mhz / 1800 Mhz DDR [900Mhz GDDR3 Physical]

the real X1950 XTX runs faster core/mem 650Mhz / 2000 Mhz DDR [1000Mhz GDDR4 Physical]

it\s that GDDR3 is maxed out @ 900 Mhz Physical, some samples may be able to run faster but not all so therefore it runs 900Mhz physical instead of 1000 Mhz physical

But yeah it's great to hear that AMD.ATi is willing to make AGP versions of their X2.xx series probably the X2600XT  AGP [RV630XT] as the X2800XT AGP [RV670XT] shall be made in AGP flavours for the high end gamer, where as the X2900 XL/ XT/ XTX series [R600] will only be made for the PCI-Express enthousiasts.


The main advantage of ATi is that they think of every gamers needs as for PCI-Express as AGP where as nVidia does not LoL

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what? where did you get info from ? I see no sources?

Of course ATi is making the XT as XTX models
the X2900 XT will launch en of March and the X2900 XTX will launch end of April I got this from a dutch AMD.ATi insider who has connections with ATi partnerships and also works on ATi drivers.

his info is 9 of the 10 times realistic so better believe it, there is a X2900 XT as X2900 XTX comming it;s also very obvious:

http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.php?tid=1471

over there they have some test results of a X2900 XTX hmm and you said there was no XTX comming, Now I find that kind of odd don't you ..

here some nice news from the inquierer
http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=38300

The launch of the R600 is gonna be the biggest in GPU history heh I adore that !!! 8)