ATI X1950 and CF reviews

[Smokey21]

http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...leid=861&cid=1

[H] - ATI Radeon X1950 XTX / CrossFire Evaluation
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==

Hexus - ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MiB
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6538

techPowerUp - ATI Radeon X1950 XTX
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/X1950XTX

MADSHRIMPS - Powercolor ATI X1950XTX 512Mb Video Card Review
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=482

Legit Reviews - The ATI Radeon X1950XTX Video Card Review (Thanks Wicked)
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/378/1/

The Inquirer - ATI's new DDR 4 X1950 XTX is a wunder kid
http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33872

FiringSquad - ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Performance Preview
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...x_performance/

Very disapointing, the single card numbers are. I was expecting a bigger increase. Now i don't know what to do, lol.

[shaithis]

Annoyingly, no one seems to benchmark with World of Warcraft.....yet it is close to (if not, the) most popular game of the last 12 months.

[Smokey21]

Yeah, but it's not a FPS and there the games that tend to need higher frame rates. Wait and see, im sure, some will pop up.

At least the cooler is quite, and cools better.

[Elessar_VPR]

HardOCP has WoW benchies.

[sawyen]

well its not all that bad given its listed price.. I'm sure prices will settle somewhere cheaper just barring the price tags of 7900GTX..

I guess its G81 or R620 for me..

[charleski]

Apparently the 1950 Cross-Fire master card is priced the same as the ordinary one, which makes you wonder why they bothered making 2 versions at all, since that just adds to administrative costs for all involved. If the prices quoted actually happen then it's a very attractive card. (I have to wonder how much they're cutting into their margin to price their leading card at £299, though it's a welcome sight.)

[Smokey21]

Apparently the 1950 Cross-Fire master card is priced the same as the ordinary one, which makes you wonder why they bothered making 2 versions at all, since that just adds to administrative costs for all involved. If the prices quoted actually happen then it's a very attractive card. (I have to wonder how much they're cutting into their margin to price their leading card at £299, though it's a welcome sight.)

299+ VAT, which is a tad over 350.

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

Really shows that the r580 is starved for memory bandwith

[BubbySoup]

Apparently the 1950 Cross-Fire master card is priced the same as the ordinary one, which makes you wonder why they bothered making 2 versions at all, since that just adds to administrative costs for all involved. If the prices quoted actually happen then it's a very attractive card. (I have to wonder how much they're cutting into their margin to price their leading card at £299, though it's a welcome sight.)

If they work the same as the X1900's do, then the Crossfire card has the compositing chip on to put the picture together. They haven't made 2 versions just to charge more for one

[Smokey21]

Really shows that the r580 is starved for memory bandwith

Erm how do you work that out? It's hardly faster at all? So it's not starved of bandwith.

[charleski]

If they work the same as the X1900's do, then the Crossfire card has the compositing chip on to put the picture together. They haven't made 2 versions just to charge more for one

The original rationale for having a 'Crossfire Edition' card was that you'd save money by not having to buy the compositing chip if you didn't need it and the 1900 Crossfire edition cards cost a bit more. But now that both cards cost the same ( and you can use 2 CE cards together if you want), there's no point buying the ordinary version. Without the price differentiation there's no point having the ordinary version of the card at all.

[xolotl]

Disappointing to say the least. Most benchmarks show only a couple of FPS increase.

You would have to be mad to buy one of these now. Especially with R600 and G80 along with DX10 just round the corner.