POWERCOLOR RADEON X1950 XTX REVIEW

"The Powercolor Radeon x1950 XTX also featuring the XFX GeForce 7900 GTX. The Powercolor Radeon x1950 XTX has the same clock speed, 20% higher memory speed and 24 extra pixel shaders compared to the XFX GeForce 7900 GTX."

"Imagine games with hyper realistic light blooms, lifelike skin textures, and silky smooth hair. That’s what it’s like on ATI’s fastest and most flexible 3D graphics processor. Powercolor Radeon x1950 XTX graphics. Never comprise."

State Of The Art Performance

"Turn your PC into a gaming powerhouse.Ignite a new gaming experience by adding an additional CrossFire graphics card and a CrossFire Ready motherboard. Enjoy broad compatibility with games, graphics cards and motherboards."

All Gaming All The Time

"Rip through games with 512 MB of GDDR4 memory for maximum performance. Play the latest games with fast frame rates and “no compromise” image quality. Immerse yourself in photorealistic gameplay with simultaneous HDR and adaptive anti-aliasing effects"

Avivo High-End Video and Display

"Rediscover your photos and video and experience over 1 billion colors. Watch crystal clear video playback. Ready your multimedia system for HDCP and watch high-definition content."

Powercolor Radeon x1950 XTX Features

"384 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process, 48 pixel shader processors, 8 vertex shader processors, 256-bit 8-channel GDDR4 memory interface and Native PCI Express x16 bus interface."

Ring Bus Memory Controller

"512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads, Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs, Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test, Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1), Fast Z-Buffer Clear and Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV 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 address units for improved efficiency, 3Dc+ texture compression o 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 and 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 and 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 (including DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray playback), encoding and transcoding, DXVA support, De-blocking and noise reduction filtering, Motion compensation, IDCT, DCT and color space conversion, Vector adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing, 3:2 pulldown (frame rate conversion) and Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time."

POWERCOLOR RADEON X1950 XTX SPECIFICATIONS