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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!"

CONNECT3D RADEON X1950 PRO

"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."

FEATURES

384 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process
Up 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 CONTROLLER

512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads
Fully 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 ENGINE

Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
Full 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 FEATURES

64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline
32-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

High performance programmable video processor
- 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™

Multi-GPU technology
Four modes of operation:
- Alternate Frame Rendering (maximum performance)
- Supertiling (optimal load-balancing)
- Scissor (compatibility)
- Super AA 8x/10x/12x/14x (maximum image quality)

CONNECT3D RADEON X1950 PRO

VIDEO CARD GPU CORE
CLOCK
MEMORY
CLOCK
MEMORY
TYPE
MEMORY
INTERFACE
MEMORY
TRANSFER
RATE
PIXEL
SHADER
DIRECTX
CONNECT3D X1950 PRO RV570 575 1380 256MB DDR3 256 44 36 9.0C
SAPPHIRE X1800 GTO R520 500 1000 256MB DDR3 256 32 12 9.0C
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CONNECT3D RADEON X1950 PRO REVIEW

PAGE 1 - INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - SYSTEM INFORMATION AND 3DMARK 2006
PAGE 3 - 3DMARK 2005, PCMARK 2005, RIGHTMARK AND SHADERMARK
PAGE 4 - DOOM 3, FAR CRY HDR AND GT LEGEND
PAGE 5 - PREY, QUAKE 4 AND SERIOUS SAM 2
PAGE 6 - SUPREME COMMANDER
PAGE 7 - OTHER ATI VIDEO CARDS AND CONCLUSION

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