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Thrax
12 Jul 2007, 4:41am
The man who steered ATi to its peak with the Radeon 9x00 series, and kept it relatively afloat before the 2900 shenanigans is leaving AMD at the end of the month. It'll be interesting to see how AMD/ATi slogs on without Mr. Orton. You can read more about it here (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40897).
jared
12 Jul 2007, 5:15am
Can't say I blame him. Things have been going steadily downhill over at AMD/ATi over the past 6-8 months. Maybe he is getting off a sinking ship? :\
Thrax
12 Jul 2007, 5:19am
Or was sacked for allowing the 2900 to happen.
GrayFox
13 Jul 2007, 7:11am
From an arcitecure standpoint the Radeon Hd 2900 is very impressive..... but they clearly didn't design it with gaming in mind its designed for crunching numbers (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/1519254&from=rss).
kryyst
13 Jul 2007, 1:05pm
Hmmmm and a friend of mine just got a job at AMD/ATI Hmmmmmmm
Qeldroma
14 Jul 2007, 1:19am
From an arcitecure standpoint the Radeon Hd 2900 is very impressive..... but they clearly didn't design it with gaming in mind its designed for crunching numbers (http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/1519254&from=rss).

Actually they designed it with DX10 clearly in mind and gave it an instruction set (not all that dissimilar from some of the SSEs) that is hoped to facilitate future graphics designers. As far as being simply a number cruncher ... well ... the FAH GPU client can't run on it :( .
Thrax
14 Jul 2007, 1:27am
It was designed to kill the 8800 GTX. Orton and Ruiz both went on record to say that people could not comprehend the performance of the 2900 XT. Unfortunately, its inconceivable performance is at the wrong end of the spectrum.
Qeldroma
14 Jul 2007, 1:34am
Orton and Ruiz both went on record to say that people could not comprehend the performance of the 2900 XT....

Yeah- we didn't :) .