After a week of testing AMD's ATI HD 2900 XT video card, the CRN Test Center was blown away. Not only did we use the card with a wide-screen format of 19 x 12 while running Quake 4, which provided outstanding image quality, but the card also fully supports Microsoft DirectX 10 and can scale up to 2 or more GPUs with its CrossFire Technology.
| PRODUCT NAME: ATI Radeon HD 2900 Series PRICE: $399 DISTRIBUTORS/ INTEGRATORS: AMD Masters: Tech Data, Ingram Micro, Synnex, D&H, ASI, SuperCom COMPANY: AMD Visual Media and Business Markham, Ontario. (905) 822-2600 www.ati.amd.com |
The HD 2900 arrives with an S-Video and two DVI-I connections, including various adapters such as DVI to VGA, DVI to HDMI and DVI to HDTV. In addition, the card comes with a short HDTV output cable. For best performance, ATI recommends activating the CrossFire Technology. The card supports two DVI displays, each supported by two independent display controllers, both of which can process a display output up to 30 bits of color.
One of the coolest tools of the ATI Catalyst software suite is the Control Center. The advanced views are easy to follow even for beginners, and it supports skinning. The Control Center runs like a server and works on top of .Net. The vendor provides an SDK so developers can integrate or simply build applications that need to manage graphics on monitors. In addition, the tool supports OpenGL APIs for realtime 3-D rendering and graphics acceleration. The Hydravision multidesktop viewing tool is also easy to configure.
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