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A pretty nice card, and SLi capable out the box.
As the benchmarks will show, pretty much all games are CPU limited till 16x12 res and then when you apply AA and AF it starts to really outpace the previous gen products.
New games as well as any CPU advancements will make it more interesting (multi-threaded, improved single-threaded performance) as the frame-rates will fly through the roof.
ATi's next card is not scheduled for at least a month and a bit so this card is going to rule the roost for at least a month and a half with no competition, and in SLi config probably longer (till crossfire shows it is anywhere near as good as it looks on paper). At that time Nvidia will probably drop a new product like the 7800 Ultra (32 pipe, 500mhz mem clock? :smoker: lets speculate ) to compete with the r520.
Good times ahead.
Can find it at www.newegg.com , in stock with 3 manufacturers, list price of $599.00 which is pretty nice.
Reviews available at.
http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzg0
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2451
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050622/index.html
Card pics
As the benchmarks will show, pretty much all games are CPU limited till 16x12 res and then when you apply AA and AF it starts to really outpace the previous gen products.
New games as well as any CPU advancements will make it more interesting (multi-threaded, improved single-threaded performance) as the frame-rates will fly through the roof.
ATi's next card is not scheduled for at least a month and a bit so this card is going to rule the roost for at least a month and a half with no competition, and in SLi config probably longer (till crossfire shows it is anywhere near as good as it looks on paper). At that time Nvidia will probably drop a new product like the 7800 Ultra (32 pipe, 500mhz mem clock? :smoker: lets speculate ) to compete with the r520.
Good times ahead.
Can find it at www.newegg.com , in stock with 3 manufacturers, list price of $599.00 which is pretty nice.
Reviews available at.
http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzg0
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2451
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050622/index.html
Card pics