ATi Radeon X1650Pro Coverage

[Big B]

Well, it seems that ATi finally has some competition for nVidia's 7600GT in the form of the X1650 XT. Like the recent X1950Pro, the 1650 XT sports internal Crossfire connectors.

Don't let the Radeon X1650 XT's name fool you. Although the amalgamation of letters and numbers behind "Radeon" might lead you to believe this card is a direct heir of the notoriously poky Radeon X1600 XT, this puppy is much more potent than its predecessor. In fact, its GPU is more like two X1600 XTs fused together, with roughly twice the graphics processing power in nearly every meaningful sense. The X1650 XT has 24 pixel shader processors instead of 12; it has eight texturing units rather than four; and it can draw a healthy ocho pixels per clock, not just an anemic cuatro like the X1600 XT before it.

That was from the Tech Report article on the new card, but here's some more reviews from around the web:

Anandtech
[H]ard|OCP
Hot Hardware
PC Perspective
Rage3D
TweakTown

 

[Swansen]

man little late in the game, but i guess better late than never, on that i haven't seen an internal connector for crossfire, is that new?

 

[Exfoliate]

Man that's cool, though it will confuse a lot of people that know how lowly the X1600Pro was. They would have been better off with calling it a X1700 something with that big an upgrade.

 

[Big B]

man little late in the game, but i guess better late than never, on that i haven't seen an internal connector for crossfire, is that new?

Yup. Only the X1650 XT and X1950 Pro have them.

 

[Swansen]

huh, is it better than their cable configuration or just different.

 

[Big B]

It's like what SLI has, so no external dongle and no need for the master Crossfire card. ATi just simplified the technology. It might not be original, but it makes things easier for the consumer.

 

[Swansen]

oh yeah didn't even think about that, thats a good point, not needing the Crossfire specific card