radeon x1950 xtx scores leaked!

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10-08-2006, 01:12 PM
pmanington

radeon x1950 xtx scores leaked!

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3727

Woah! :mrgreen:
10-08-2006, 01:23 PM
charleski

ATI have tried this before. When the 7950GX2 first came out they put out a press release claiming the old 1900xtx beat it according to their own benchmarks - yeah, sure, if you set things up just right.

Independent reviews are the only ones that will show what's really going on.
10-08-2006, 01:28 PM
pmanington

Oh I agree. Just thought it was an interesting bit of info. I wouldn't even consider a quad-sli / crossfire setup anyway. That's far too much hassle just to play games with.
10-08-2006, 01:57 PM
ExceededGoku

I still consider more than one graphics card a complete waste of money... I would never pay 2ce as much just to have 1.2 times the performance... or something rediculous like that ("upto 2 times" my ass...)
10-08-2006, 02:01 PM
WLC-1989

When will this be out, though? :(
10-08-2006, 02:27 PM
Smokey21

Should be available to buy next month.

As for the performance, expect it to be about 10%. The 2Ghz memory speed will make a decent increase, especially in games like FEAR, and the like.

Wait till we actually get independent reviews, and not some of ATI's lame slides, like already said.
10-08-2006, 02:47 PM
WLC-1989

I was going to order a HIS Radeon X1900XT with the custom heatsink; is it worth holding that off for now to get one of these instead? :(

Also, could anybody tell me when the first DirectX 10 cards will be released?
10-08-2006, 02:49 PM
Lee H

I'm reserving judgement till AMD* release these cards and we see real people's figures and not some sales persons leaked spiel :)

* Yes..it's ATi I know but I'm winding fanboi's up calling them AMD
10-08-2006, 03:02 PM
chuckskull

Figures look feasable to me, I'll wait until hexus has given it a good going until I decide whether or not to plump any cash down.
10-08-2006, 03:23 PM
Rack

Looks exciting, the graphics race never stops.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarrenLCooper

I was going to order a HIS Radeon X1900XT with the custom heatsink; is it worth holding that off for now to get one of these instead? :(

It would be worth waiting as this new card will push X1900XT prices down even more. Still, it is a great bang-for-buck card already, so why not?
10-08-2006, 04:06 PM
kalniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN

I'm reserving judgement till AMD* release these cards and we see real people's figures and not some sales persons leaked spiel :)

* Yes..it's ATi I know but I'm winding fanboi's up calling them AMD

You've not taken to calling them DAAMIT like the inq then? :p
10-08-2006, 04:11 PM
chuckskull

Quote:

Originally Posted by kalniel

You've not taken to calling them DAAMIT like the inq then? :p

:lol:
11-08-2006, 11:46 PM
Elessar_VPR

VR Zone has a look at th X1950XTX up now as well. Whilst the results look a little iffy it does seem the memory was holding back the R580 core a fair bit and the cooler looks a lot better.

Still unless you really need a new card in the near future, may as well just wait for DX10.
11-08-2006, 11:50 PM
charleski

Yep, until GX10 comes out there's no point.

The problem is that GX10 means Vista, so we're talking about 6 months *at least*.
12-08-2006, 12:02 AM
chuckskull

Of course DX10 is vista only, so not everyone will be diving on DX10 right away. I might buy a x1950 if those scores are accurate.