Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB has finally been launched. The card that has been causing such a stir has finally been officially unveiled and it’s no one less than Diamond Multimedia that has done it. Diamond Radeon HD 2900 XT is the first retail card that sports a 1GB memory buffer and as rumors have been saying, it’s GDDR4 capable of more than 2GHz (that’s 146GB/s bandwidth!). Even though the memory is the same as with the X1950 XTX, AMD has learned its lesson and managed to tame the memories a lot better now. We’ve seen several early benchmarks by Denny over at XtremeSystems and according to the author himself; the timings are a lot better now.
We’re hoping to present some benchmarks ourselves if everything goes well and then perhaps compare it to the other top of the line cards of today. A CrossFire setup with a total graphics memory buffer of 2GB and close to 300GB/s memory bandwidth sounds close to a dream come true.
Other than the memory there isn’t anything new about the card, but to be honest, just the increased memory buffer and speed is enough to make us interested. The massive bandwidth of these cards should be a feast for the GPU, which we all know really likes memory bandwidth.
The card will be available from broad range of system builders, including the previously mentioned Extreme-PC.ca, but also integrators like Falcon North West, Biohazard, Maingear, Vigor, XI, Canada Computers, NCIX and several others. The card will mainly be included in pre-built systems, but since we’ve already heard that Extreme-PC will be selling the card separately it seems quite feasible that others will as well.
