Expert Reviews

  • …noticeable change that I made was moving from a rather poultry XFX PCX6600 to a much heftier Sapphire x1900XT 512mb graphics card Now I Sapphire
    Since ATI announced its manufacturing &…
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  • …hot. Of course two GPUs require their power, but with power much more expensive. Ironically Sapphire’s biggest obstacle in selling the X1950 Pro Dual will be the R600 cards coming out next month….
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  • …draw numbers similar to a single X1900 XTX, the results are not too bad. In our testing the Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual can deliver excellent performance, but not beat the GeForce 8800 GTX, which is…
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Blog Articles

  • With its brand new RV570 graphics core, the X1950 Pro turned heads. The chip was equipped with 36 pixel shaders — just 12 shading units shy of ATI’s flagship Radeon X1950 XTX — and also sported a 256-bit external memory interface. Arguably the Radeon X1950 Pro’s … Whereas previous Radeon cards relied on an array of external chips to provide CrossFire functionality, the Radeon X1950 Pro was the first ATI card offered with integrated CrossFire built-in to every card. …
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  • Radeon X1950 Pro. 575 MHz. 1.38 GHz. 256-bit. 44.16 GB/s. 36. 9.0c. Radeon X1950 XT. 625 MHz. 1.8 GHz. 256-bit. 57.6 GB/s. 48. 9.0c. Radeon X1950 XTX. 650 MHz. 2 GHz. 256-bit. 64 GB/s. 48. 9.0c. Radeon HD 2400 Pro …. On video cards from Radeon HD 2400 and HD 2600 series the video card manufacturer can use a different clock for the memory (usually lower, thus achieveing a lower performance compared to the reference model); the clock rates published here are the official …
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  • The video card has 256 MB of GDDR3 SDRAM allocated in four chips on the front side of the PCB. Infineon memory chips (GDDR3). 1.3ns memory access time, which corresponds to 750 (1500) MHz. Sapphire RADEON X1950 XTX 512MB PCI-E …
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  • So what is an enthusiast to do if he wants a Radeon X1950 XTX board with more effective cooling but he doesn’t want to void his warranty? Up to this point, that answer has been pretty simple: pray for someone to produce a X1950 XTX card …
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  • After the acquisition of ATI Technologies by Advanced Micro Devices the latter started to force out ATI’s brand-name and emphasize AMD brand for graphics cards. However, there are still many fans of ATI, who are very addicted to this name and who would … ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition is two Radeon X1950 XTX graphics cards (one of which is a master edition version required for multi-GPU CrossFire mode) with clock-speeds of chip/memory increased to 670MHz/2100MHz from …
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  • Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphic Card. Is better. bonusgrabber.com says: August 3, 2010 at 12:04 am. Both are good cards to watch videos with. Make sure your computer has a PCI-Express slot instead of just …
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