It is amazing at how quickly I have dropped to the zero mark when it comes to graphics cards. When I bought my ATI 9200, they were low/mid range. The MX440 and 9000 were below my card and so I thought I would be okay for a little while. I was not looking to have a gaming computer anyways.
Now Anandtech is looking at dual x16 RD580 graphics cards and mentioning the X1800XT…Boy am I far behind. I am still using AGP.
We recently had an opportunity to spend two days testing the new RD580 Crossfire motherboard, code-named Manta, and to directly compare the RD580 Dual X16 chipset with the recently reviewed Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe featuring the nVidia Dual x16 chipset. The comparison included both single and dual video card head-to-head testing with 7800GTX SLI (running 81.87 drivers) and X1800XT Crossfire (running Catalyst 5.11).
Because X1800XT Crossfire and The RD580 chipset have not yet officially launched, ATI has asked that we not publish hard benchmarks of our results, since they will likely change in final release versions. We can, however, talk in general terms about performance. Those of you who believe ATI is far behind nVidia are in for a surprise.
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