ATI Radeon X1950XTX Review @ XbitLabs
XbitLabs reviews the new ATI Radeon X1950XTX graphics card which is ATI’s fastest card released so far. The review features information about the design and the specifications of the X1950XTX, along with many detailed benchmarks of different games. XbitLabs writes in the conclusion:
ATI’s new Radeon X1950 XTX is a worthy successor to the Radeon X1900 XTX, the previous flagship product in the R580-based series. Equipped with new-type memory, capable of working at an unprecedented frequency of 1000 (2000) MHz, the card has got faster and better than the GeForce 7900 GTX where the Radeon X1900 XTX used to lag behind. As might have been expected, the biggest performance growth is observed when full-screen antialiasing is used along with high resolutions. The value of this growth varies from 5% to 20%, but is zero in some cases, e.g. in Call of Duty 2, F.E.A.R., and Tomb Raider: Legend. Anyway, this is an excellent achievement considering that the new card’s specs differ from the older model’s in only one point.
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Our praises also go to the designers of the new cooling system the Radeon X1950 XTX is equipped with. It is a quiet, yet highly efficient cooler which is no worse than alternatives from Artic Cooling or Zalman and is far better than the older cooler that used to be installed on the Radeon X1900 XTX. Silence-seeking users won’t have to buy a third-party cooler for this card. And it looks impressive, too!
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