Radeon X1950 Announced

Big B · 22-07-2006, 09:30 PM

According to DailyTech ATi has unveiled a new Radeon, the X1950, to it's OEM's. For those of you waiting for ATi's next big release, this isn't it, merely support for GDDR4, faster clocks, and a new cooler.

Radeon X1950 at launch will come in two flavors: a high clock "XTX" version, and a CrossFire version. Both cards feature 512MB GDDR4, and the only major difference between the two is that the CrossFire X1950 houses the composite engine and input interfaces for CrossFire. Just yesterday, ATI issued an advisory to its partners claiming "Clock frequencies for RADEON X1950 family products are pending and will be provided at a later date." However, in March of this year ATI released a new policy for AIB partners to overclock X1000 series cores with some discretion. While we can already confirm some partners are planning 650MHz core versions, there is still a distinct possibility that higher clocked cards are also in the works. Memory clock frequencies have not been announced either, though Samsung announced its GDDR4 is already capable of 3.2GHz in 8x512Mbit configurations.

It'll be faster, but if you've got a Radeon X1900 or GeForce 7900 series card, this probably isn't something to jump at unless you have an infinite supply of cash to throw at new stuff.

Exfoliate · 22-07-2006, 08:40 PM

That's cool and it's good to see that GDDR4 is here, sure didn't take long. But at only 7% faster than the X1900XTX there's nothing too exciting here aside from some good overclocking potential.

Matt555 · 22-07-2006, 09:32 PM

GDR4 already capable of 3.2GHz, impressive, but there's very few games that will require that much power at the minute, hell most games can be played on a fairly good rig, they don't require a top-of-the-line-supercharged-rig (obviously there's the elite few that'll tear a mid-high range PC apart but there's only a few of them)

rike17 · 23-07-2006, 12:30 AM

Then i guess the price of the X1900's are gonna go down pretty soon, a price cut of around of $50 i would think

Exfoliate · 24-07-2006, 12:27 AM

Probably even more, we really say the earlier 7900's drop as the 7950GX2 was launched.

22-07-2006, 09:30 PM	#1 (permalink) Top
Big B HWF Godfather Join Date: Dec 2001 Age: 28 Male Posts: 9,640 Times Helpful: 585 My Mood: Devilish Status: Offline My Computer	Radeon X1950 Announced According to DailyTech ATi has unveiled a new Radeon, the X1950, to it's OEM's. For those of you waiting for ATi's next big release, this isn't it, merely support for GDDR4, faster clocks, and a new cooler. Radeon X1950 at launch will come in two flavors: a high clock "XTX" version, and a CrossFire version. Both cards feature 512MB GDDR4, and the only major difference between the two is that the CrossFire X1950 houses the composite engine and input interfaces for CrossFire. Just yesterday, ATI issued an advisory to its partners claiming "Clock frequencies for RADEON X1950 family products are pending and will be provided at a later date." However, in March of this year ATI released a new policy for AIB partners to overclock X1000 series cores with some discretion. While we can already confirm some partners are planning 650MHz core versions, there is still a distinct possibility that higher clocked cards are also in the works. Memory clock frequencies have not been announced either, though Samsung announced its GDDR4 is already capable of 3.2GHz in 8x512Mbit configurations. It'll be faster, but if you've got a Radeon X1900 or GeForce 7900 series card, this probably isn't something to jump at unless you have an infinite supply of cash to throw at new stuff. __________________ Hardware Forums\|HWF Rules\|My DVD's\|PSU FAQ\|HWF Folding Team\|2CPU

22-07-2006, 08:40 PM	#2 (permalink) Top
Exfoliate Captain Dial-up Join Date: Jan 2005 Age: 19 Male Posts: 4,258 Times Helpful: 223 Status: Offline My Computer	That's cool and it's good to see that GDDR4 is here, sure didn't take long. But at only 7% faster than the X1900XTX there's nothing too exciting here aside from some good overclocking potential. __________________

22-07-2006, 09:32 PM	#3 (permalink) Top
Matt555 iMod Join Date: May 2005 Age: 21 Male Posts: 3,844 Times Helpful: 238 My Mood: Happy Status: Offline My Computer	GDR4 already capable of 3.2GHz, impressive, but there's very few games that will require that much power at the minute, hell most games can be played on a fairly good rig, they don't require a top-of-the-line-supercharged-rig (obviously there's the elite few that'll tear a mid-high range PC apart but there's only a few of them) __________________

24-07-2006, 12:27 AM	#5 (permalink) Top
Exfoliate Captain Dial-up Join Date: Jan 2005 Age: 19 Male Posts: 4,258 Times Helpful: 223 Status: Offline My Computer	Probably even more, we really say the earlier 7900's drop as the 7950GX2 was launched. __________________

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rike17 Geek Trainee Join Date: May 2006 Gender: Posts: 32 Status: Offline	Then i guess the price of the X1900's are gonna go down pretty soon, a price cut of around of $50 i would think

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