X1950 XTX & X1950 CrossFire Edition launched today!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 09:09:25 Wed, August 23, 2006

GDDR4, HDCP compliance, and a spiffy new heatsink design are what the X1950 XTX has brought to the party. The official press release has the details and you can find the first wave of reviews on our X1950 XTX page .

5 Comments

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:24:39 AM

Mike
GPUReview Founder

Overall I'm not too impressed with the performance of the X1950 XTX. The 2.0GHz memory (30% faster) only gives it 5-10% more performance. However, the redesigned cooler is, by all accounts, much much quieter.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:15:06 PM

anonymous
guest

high noise for a little increase of performance. it is very expensive too. have we forget the x1800 series?(now cheaper)

Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:09:23 AM

anonymous
guest

at least is the first GC using a new type of memory

Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:19:19 AM

anonymous
guest

btw,
http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...leid=861&cid=1

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6538

damn 1 vs 2 and the 1 wins! Is that possible?

Have phun!

Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:48:05 PM

The X1K series cards that end with "XTX" are a scam.
The "XT" is far more cheap and can be easily overclocked to their "XTX" partner's speeds.
The X1950XTX is the same deal, except that there is no X1950XT (its more then just a clock speed difference). So it's an ever bigger scam.
And to top it all off, the X1950XTX does NOT perform well at all. It will NEVER beat the 7950 GX2 and those benchmarks that some of u might have seen where the X1950 Crossfire and X1950 XTX were put together to defeat Quad-SLi (7950GX2 x 2) were not fair - The only reason they performed better was because there is no support for Quad-SLi in any game other then F.E.A.R. (where we see it's real power)

So, since the X1950XTX isnt much better then the X1900XTX, and u can get the X1900XT (wich performs the same as the X1900XTX) for much less, u should not buy the X1950XTX, except for the honor (of being stupid).. of having the "best" card.

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