Thread: Goodbye 8800

Hello ATI Radeon

956 million transistors on 55nm fabrication process
PCI Express 2.0 x16 bus interface
256-bit GDDR5 memory interface
Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 support
Shader Model 4.1
32-bit floating point texture filtering
Indexed cube map arrays
Independent blend modes per render target
Pixel coverage sample masking
Read/write multi-sample surfaces with shaders
Gather4 texture fetching
Unified Superscalar Shader Architecture
800 stream processing units
Dynamic load balancing and resource allocation for vertex, geometry, and pixel shaders
Common instruction set and texture unit access supported for all types of shaders
Dedicated branch execution units and texture address processors
128-bit floating point precision for all operations
Command processor for reduced CPU overhead
Shader instruction and constant caches
Up to 160 texture fetches per clock cycle
Up to 128 textures per pixel
Fully associative multi-level texture cache design
DXTC and 3Dc+ texture compression
High resolution texture support (up to 8192 x 8192)
Fully associative texture Z/stencil cache designs
Double-sided hierarchical Z/stencil buffer
Early Z test and Fast Z Clear
Lossless Z & stencil compression (up to 128:1)
Lossless color compression (up to 8:1)
Up to 8 render targets (MRTs) with anti-aliasing
Accelerated physics processing
Dynamic Geometry Acceleration
High performance vertex cache
Programmable tessellation unit
Accelerated geometry shader path for geometry amplification
Memory read/write cache for improved stream output performance
Anti-aliasing features
Multi-sample anti-aliasing (2, 4, or 8 samples per pixel)
Up to 24x Custom Filter Anti-Aliasing (CFAA)
Adaptive super-sampling and multi-sampling
Gamma correct
Super AA (ATI CrossFireX™ configurations only)
All anti-aliasing features compatible with HDR rendering
Texture filtering features
2x/4x/8x/16x high quality adaptive anisotropic filtering modes (up to 128 taps per pixel)
128-bit floating point HDR texture filtering
sRGB filtering (gamma/degamma)
Percentage Closer Filtering (PCF)
Depth & stencil texture (DST) format support
Shared exponent HDR (RGBE 9:9:9:5) texture format support
OpenGL 3.1 support
ATI Avivo™ HD Video and Display Platform1
Unified Video Decoder (UVD) for H.264/AVC, VC-1, and MPEG-2 video formats
High definition (HD) playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD video2
Dual stream (HD+SD) playback support
DirectX Video Acceleration 1.0 & 2.0 support
Support for BD-Live certified applications
Hardware DivX and MPEG-1 video decode acceleration
ATI Avivo Video Post Processor1
Color space conversion
Chroma subsampling format conversion
Horizontal and vertical scaling
Gamma correction
Advanced vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing
De-blocking and noise reduction filtering
Detail enhancement
Color vibrance and flesh tone correction
Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
Bad edit correction
Enhanced DVD upscaling (SD to HD)
Automatic dynamic contrast adjustment
Two independent display controllers
Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls and video overlays for each display
Full 30-bit display processing
Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion
Spatial/temporal dithering provides 30-bit color quality on 24-bit and 18-bit displays
High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all display outputs
Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
Fast, glitch-free mode switching
Hardware cursor
Two integrated dual-link DVI display outputs
Each supports 18-, 24-, and 30-bit digital displays at all resolutions up to 1920x1200 (single-link DVI) or 2560x1600 (dual-link DVI)3
Each includes a dual-link HDCP encoder with on-chip key storage for high resolution playback of protected content4
Two integrated 400 MHz 30-bit RAMDACs
Each supports analog displays connected by VGA at all resolutions up to 2048x15363
DisplayPort output support
24- and 30-bit displays at all resolutions up to 2560x16003
HDMI output support
All display resolutions up to 1920x10803
Integrated HD audio controller with support for stereo and multi-channel (up to 7.1) audio formats, including AC-3, AAC, DTS5, enabling a plug-and-play audio solution over HDMI
Integrated AMD Xilleon™ HDTV encoder
Provides high quality analog TV output (component/S-video/composite)
Supports SDTV and HDTV resolutions
Underscan and overscan compensation
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
VGA mode support on all display outputs
ATI PowerPlay™ Technology5
Advanced power management technology for optimal performance and power savings
Performance-on-Demand
Constantly monitors GPU activity, dynamically adjusting clocks and voltage based on user scenario
Clock and memory speed throttling
Voltage switching
Dynamic clock gating
Central thermal management – on-chip sensor monitors GPU temperature and triggers thermal actions as required
ATI CrossFireX™ Multi-GPU Technology6
Scale up rendering performance and image quality with up to four GPUs
Integrated compositing engine
High performance dual channel bridge interconnect7

You will love it Soviet.

I have a pair of them,and have been nothing but happy. There isn't a game that they can't play with the settings maxxed out.

Would you have to agree with the reviews of a loud fan after 50%

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Would you have to agree with the reviews of a loud fan after 50%

you could pull a saszeus and put a waterblock on it :9

speaking of replacing an 8800gt what card would you say is as good as the 8800gt was when it came out? i've got two with lifetime warranties...

Im gonna have to check with my people, the main reason i got the 8800 was because it blew other cards out of the water for spec/price and when it came out

lol, good luck.

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Would you have to agree with the reviews of a loud fan after 50%

The only time I hear the fans is when I first fire up....they rarely kick on. I have a TON of airflow,so the vid cards stay cool as hell.

Originally Posted by dex71

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Would you have to agree with the reviews of a loud fan after 50%

The only time I hear the fans is when I first fire up....they rarely kick on. I have a TON of airflow,so the vid cards stay cool as hell.

Very good choice Soviet,I love mine and the fans like dex said are only loud when you first boot up.You can control them with the catylist control.I have been an nvidea person for along time but when I made the switch,it opened my eyes to new and better things.

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Im gonna have to check with my people, the main reason i got the 8800 was because it blew other cards out of the water for spec/price and when it came out

which is what the 4890 is now. price/performance...the 4890 wins. especially with as cheap as it is now....$150? $175?