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CONNECT3D RADEON X1950 PRO REVIEW"Connect3D Radeon x1950 Pro review also featuring the Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO. The Connect3D Radeon x1950 Pro is the latest mainstream video card from ATI featuring the powerful R570 GPU which has 36 pixel shaders and can deliver an impressive 44GB of bandwidth!" "The world’s fastest consumer GPU - The Radeon™ X1950 conquers the competition with brute force and massive parallelism, including an ultra-threaded engine, high-speed memory support and 90 nanometer technology." "Enter a world of visual velocity - Prepare your rig for the future of games with the Radeon™ X1950 series the fastest consumer 3D graphics processor on the planet. With its ultra-threaded engine and unparalleled shader performance, the Radeon™ X1950 delivers maximum graphical detail at incredible frame rates. Then go beyond games with Avivo™ video and display technology and watch HD movies and digital photos come to life." "The world’s fastest consumer GPU - The Radeon™ X1950 conquers the competition with brute force and massive parallelism, including an ultra-threaded engine, high-speed memory support and 90 nanometer technology." "CrossFire : Multiply and Conquer with Multi-GPU Performance - Designed from the ground up with GPU sharing in mind, the Radeon™ X1950 series allows you to get incredible gaming performance by adding a Radeon™ X1950 CrossFire™ Edition graphics card for ultra fast performance that works with all games, all the time. CrossFire’s™ “supertiling” GPU sharing speeds rendering by evenly dividing the graphics processing, intelligently alternating the rendering workload to each Radeon™ GPU for efficient load balancing, and optimized performance. CrossFire™ ignites with the higher anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, and texture settings you desire. Adjust your display configurations, experiment with your advanced 3D settings, and check the effect with a real-time 3D-rendered preview within ATI’s CATALYST® Control Center to rule your CrossFire™ system." "Slide your graphics settings to 'V. High' - The Radeon™ X1950 promises the world’s fastest shader performance with Shader Model 3.0. ATI allows you to experience simultaneous HDR and advanced adaptive anti-aliasing for incredible enhancements to lighting contour and colour details, delivering the ultimate in visually immersive 3D gaming." "Beyond games - There’s more to PC graphics than games and Avivo™ Video and Display Perfection makes sure you experience it all. Avivo™ promises a high definition visual experience, delivering sharper photos, smoother video, true-to-life image representation and universal display connectivity. High definition images come to life with remarkable clarity and over 1 billion colours." FEATURESUp to 48 pixel shader processors Up to 8 vertex shader processors 256-bit 8-channel GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface Native PCI Express® x16 bus interface RING BUS MEMORY CONTROLLERFully associative texture, colour, and Z/stencil cache designs Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1) Fast Z-Buffer Clear Optimized for performance at high display resolutions ULTRA-THREADED SHADER ENGINEFull speed 128-bit floating point processing for all shader operations Up to 512 simultaneous pixel threads Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic branching and flow control Dedicated texture aGDDRess units for improved efficiency 3Dc+ texture compression - High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel data formats - High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps and single-channel data formats - Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0 ADVANCED IMAGE QUALITY FEATURES32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the pipeline 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k) AVIVO™ VIDEO AND DISPLAY ENGINE- Accelerated MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding - DXVA support - De-blocking and noise reduction filtering - Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and colour space conversion - Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing - 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion) - Dual integrated dual-link DVI transmitters - Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs - 16 bit per channel floating point HDR and 10 bit per channel DVI output - Complete, independent colour controls and video overlays for each display - High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all outputs - Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays - Xilleon™ TV encoder for high quality analogue output - YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays - Fast, glitch-free mode switching - VGA mode support on all outputs CROSSFIRE™Four modes of operation: - Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance) - Supertiling (optimal load-balancing) - Scissor (compatibility) - Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality)
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LATEST REVIEWS"Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 review which also features the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 has 17% higher clock speed and 45% higher memory speed than the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2." "The Asus GeForce GTS 250 review also featuring the Pov GeForce GTX 260. The Asus GeForce GTS 250 has a 25% faster clock speed, 1% higher memory speed but the Asus GeForce GTS 250 has 64 less Pixel Shaders." "XFX Radeon HD 4770 review also featuring the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The XFX Radeon HD 4770 has a 17% higher clock speed, 38% higher memory speed but 20% less Pixel Shaders compared to the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. The XFX Radeon HD 4770 does have a disadvantage which is the 128Bit Memory Interface which is half that of the Gainward Radeon HD 4850. How will this effect the performance?" "BFG GeForce GTX 275 OC review also featuring the Gainward GeForce GTX 275. The BFG GeForce GTX 275 OC is a Factory Overclocked version of GeForce GTX 275 which means that it has a 3% faster clock speed, 2% higher memory speed and 240 Pixel Shaders." "Gainward GeForce GTX 275 review also featuring the XFX Radeon HD 4890. The Gainward GeForce GTX 275 has a 26% lower clock speed, 42% lower memory speed and 460 less Pixel Shaders compared to the XFX Radeon HD 4890. The Gainward GeForce GTX 275 is going to have to work hard!" "Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 review which also features the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 has 4% lower clock speed, 30% higher memory speed and an extra 320 Pixel Shaders compared to the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 does have a disadvantage with the 128 Bit memory interface due to the Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 having a 256 Bit interface. How will this effect performance?" "XFX Radeon HD 4850 review also featuring the EVGA GeForce GTS 250. The XFX Radeon HD 4850 has 15% lower clock speed, 5% lower memory speed, 800 Pixel Shaders and DirectX 10.1 Support. The XFX Radeon HD 4850 does not have any disadvantages just raw performance!" "Inno3D GeForce 9800 GT review also features the Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770. The Inno3D GeForce 9800 GT has a 20% lower clock speed, 44% lower memory speed and 528 less Pixel Shaders. The Inno3D GeForce 9800 GT does have an advantage and this is the 256Bit Memory Interface which is twice that of the Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 which uses a 128Bit Memory Interface." "Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 review also featuring the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. The Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 has a 24% higher clock speed, 44% higher memory speed and the same 640 Pixel Shaders as the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. The Gigabyte Radeon HD 4770 does have a disadvantage which is the 128Bit Memory Interface which is half that of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830. Will the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?" "XFX Radeon HD 4890 review also featuring the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. The XFX Radeon HD 4890 has a 11% higher clock speed, 9% higher memory speed and the same 800 Pixel Shaders as the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. This means the XFX Radeon HD 4890 will be atleast 10% faster than the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. Another advantage for the XFX Radeon HD 4890 is the extra 512MB Memory which will definately increase game performance." "EVGA GeForce GTS 250 review also featuring the Inno3D GeForce 9800 GTX+. The EVGA GeForce GTS 250 has a 3% higher clock speed, the same 2200 Mhz memory speed and 128 Pixel Shaders as the Inno3D GeForce 9800 GTX+. This means the only real advantage the EVGA GeForce GTS 250 has over the Inno3D GeForce 9800 GTX+ is an extra 512MB Memory." |
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