ATi Radeon X1950 cards announced

mrjack · 07-23-2006, 05:05 PM

I haven't seen any threads about this yet so here it goes:

ATi has announced that two versions of the X1950 series will be released, the X1950 Crossfire and X1950XTX cards. Unlike what we've seen in the past both cards will have the same clock speeds. They will also feature 512Mb of GDDR4 memory which is speculated to be running at 2GHz, even though GDDR4 is capable of running at 3.2GHz in certain setups.

It has been confirmed that some 3rd party brands are planning on 650MHz core clocks, but some brands will probably sell cards with a higher clock speed.

And here's a link to DailyTech's article.

bigsaucybob · 07-23-2006, 05:49 PM

Interesting, it is a pretty sweet looking card. I hope the companies that produce them keep that cool red looking heatsink.

fade2green514 · 07-23-2006, 05:52 PM

yea... and soon enough i heard ATI is going to start making their cards external... they'll need motherboards to support a wired form of pci-express and the reason they're doing it is because graphics cards release so much heat and use up so much electricity... plus then you can plug it into a laptop and make it a gaming laptop when stationary.
any word on the architecture of the x1950xtx?

34erd · 07-23-2006, 05:55 PM

Sweeet. Memory frequencys rivaling that of CPU's.

If ATi really has GDDR4 working then that means that it should be on R600.

thealmightyone · 07-23-2006, 05:56 PM

All you need is an PCI-E extension cable, which would not make it possible to connect the card to a laptop. Not sure if these exist or not.

fade2green514 · 07-23-2006, 06:20 PM

yes but soon enough they will make the cables for laptops.

[-0MEGA-] · 07-23-2006, 06:26 PM

If they do make those adapters for laptops, theres no possbible way you can use it unless you have access to an outlet. Because those cards would drain a laptop battery in several minutes.

Motoxrdude · 07-23-2006, 06:53 PM

That looks like a pretty sick card. Are there any benchmarks out for it yet?

mrjack · 07-23-2006, 07:03 PM

No benchmarks, atleast from what I've heard.

And the X1950 series use the R580 core, just with GDDR4, basically. Just read the article to find out more than what I wrote.

07-23-2006, 05:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
mrjack VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Age: 18 Posts: 2,595	ATi Radeon X1950 cards announced I haven't seen any threads about this yet so here it goes: ATi has announced that two versions of the X1950 series will be released, the X1950 Crossfire and X1950XTX cards. Unlike what we've seen in the past both cards will have the same clock speeds. They will also feature 512Mb of GDDR4 memory which is speculated to be running at 2GHz, even though GDDR4 is capable of running at 3.2GHz in certain setups. It has been confirmed that some 3rd party brands are planning on 650MHz core clocks, but some brands will probably sell cards with a higher clock speed. And here's a link to DailyTech's article. __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3.45GHz \| MSI P7N Zilent 2x2048Mb OCZ Titanium 800MHz DDR2 Western Digital Caviar 160Gb SATAII Samsung Spinpoint F1 320Gb SATAII Western Digital Caviar 500Gb SATAII Samsung Spinpoint F1 750Gb SATAII MSI NX8800GT OC 512Mb Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Antec Truepower Trio 550W Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

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fade2green514 Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: buffalo ny Age: 20 Posts: 3,651	yea... and soon enough i heard ATI is going to start making their cards external... they'll need motherboards to support a wired form of pci-express and the reason they're doing it is because graphics cards release so much heat and use up so much electricity... plus then you can plug it into a laptop and make it a gaming laptop when stationary. any word on the architecture of the x1950xtx? __________________ Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3ghz HD 4850 512mb (750/2350mhz) 2x2gb G.Skill ddr2-835 (5-4-4-10) 2x320gb sata2 in RAID 0 system drive 250gb sata2 storage drive 13,574 - 3dmark06 score

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34erd Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Age: 16 Posts: 2,844	Sweeet. Memory frequencys rivaling that of CPU's. If ATi really has GDDR4 working then that means that it should be on R600. __________________ DFI Lanparty UT nF4 SLI DR Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 1 Gig OCZ VX DDR500 DDR BFG GeForce 7800GT 160 Gig SATA HDD CD-RW DVD-ROM Antec NeoPower 480 Thermaltake Tsunami

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mrjack VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Age: 18 Posts: 2,595	No benchmarks, atleast from what I've heard. And the X1950 series use the R580 core, just with GDDR4, basically. Just read the article to find out more than what I wrote. __________________ Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3.45GHz \| MSI P7N Zilent 2x2048Mb OCZ Titanium 800MHz DDR2 Western Digital Caviar 160Gb SATAII Samsung Spinpoint F1 320Gb SATAII Western Digital Caviar 500Gb SATAII Samsung Spinpoint F1 750Gb SATAII MSI NX8800GT OC 512Mb Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Antec Truepower Trio 550W Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

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