Richard Vanderhurst reviews the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB
By: Kendall Hunter | Posted: 07th July 2009
Windows Vista and DirectX ten are, barring further delays, a trifling 5 months away, and with them will come next-gen video games, as an instance Crysis. based on previews of Crysis we saw at the year's E3, if you have the hardware to run it, you'll be treated to a heretofore unseen level of graphical realism. ATI's new Radeon X1950 XTX, pronounced today, will not deliver that experience. It is a DirectX 9 card, that means it can only make the best of games from this generation. Spotting this fact, ATI has priced the new card at an assertive $450. If this card had come out a year back, it could have been priced between $500 and $600, since it is the fastest single-chip card on the market.
It should be the first 3D card to market with GDDR-4 when it hits the streets on September 14. It's also the source of the major clock speed ticks to this card. At 650MHz, the chip's clock speed is the same as the Radeon X1900 XTX's, but the memory now runs at a full 2GHz, up from its precursor's 1.2GHz. And we will not say that ATI blows Nvidia out of the water now, but we do have to hand it the final edge for its gains on Quake 4 and, by extension, OpenGL.
Fourteen to go with the stand-alone model, but we don't commend it. The arrival of the next-gen cards is just too near to spend that type of money now. Fourteen, we were reminded of the distressing launch of the Radeon X1000 series, in which ATI did not communicate the heavy delay between the press coverage and the availability. The problem's that there were similar meetings that had taken place in Europe, and three print publications are now locked and loaded to run stories on the X1950 cards on August 25, fundamentally breaking the NDA if we move it to the fourteen.
About Richard Vanderhurst
Richard Vanderhurst reviews the most recent computer hardware & software and instructs SEO engineers on the island of Samoa, located between Australia and Hawaii, cutting edge formulas for site design and page rank strategies to push companies in the local communities, thru online training classes held each month.About the Author
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