(10/06) SAPPHIRE RADEON X1800 GTO REVIEW AT ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO review also featuring the Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO and Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro. The Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO is equipped with 12 Pixel Shader Processors, 8 Vertex Shader Processors, a 256-bit memory interface and driven by the x1800 GTO core."
(10/06) ATI VIDEO CARD CHART AT ULTIMATE HARDWARE - "ATI video card chart has been updated to include specifications for the ATI Radeon x1950 Pro."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1650 XT VIDEO CARD REVIEW AT TECHREPORT - "DON'T LET THE Radeon X1650 XT's name fool you. Although the amalgamation of letters and numbers behind "Radeon" might lead you to believe this card is a direct heir of the notoriously poky Radeon X1600 XT, this puppy is much more potent than its predecessor. In fact, its GPU is more like two X1600 XTs fused together, with roughly twice the graphics processing power in nearly every meaningful sense. The X1650 XT has 24 pixel shader processors instead of 12; it has eight texturing units rather than four; and it can draw a healthy ocho pixels per clock, not just an anemic cuatro like the X1600 XT before it."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1650 XT VIDEO CARD REVIEW AT HOTHARDWARE - "ATI is adding yet another member to the Radeon X1K family of products, the Radeon X1650 XT. While its name suggests the X1650 XT is nothing more than a higher clocked variation on the barely 2-month old Radeon X1650 Pro, that's actually not the case. The Radeon X1650 Pro is based on a new GPU, formerly code-named RV560, that is much more powerful than anything else in the X16x0 family."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1650 XT VIDEO CARD REVIEW AT PCPERSPECTIVE - "The X1650 XT is set at some fairly high clock speeds, though with fewer active pixel processing pipes, performance is scaled to the $150 segment fairly well. The X1650 XT will run at 575 MHz core clock and 1.35 GHz memory clock by default and will come with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. There are still two dual-link DVI connections and a standard video output connection as well. HDCP support is optional on all third-party cards but AMD claims that all of their Built-by-ATI cards will have HDCP support built into them, making this one of the least expensive HDCP-ready graphics cards on the market."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1650 XT VIDEO CARD REVIEW AT FIRINGSQUAD - "Hot on the heels of the launch of the Radeon X1950 Pro two weeks ago, today ATI’s assault on the mainstream graphics market takes another bold step forward with the introduction of the Radeon X1650 XT."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1650 XT VIDEO CARD REVIEW AT RAGE3D - "As mentioned the X1650 XT is built on a new graphics core from ATI codenamed RV560. It’s an 80nm part and measures about 16.7mm by 15mm. It is, in fact, the exact same size as the X1950 Pro’s RV570 core and, as far as logic goes, would suggest that the RV560 has the same 330 million transistors as the RV570 does (Oct.30 Update: just got confirmation that this is, indeed, the case. The RV560 is essentially the same chip as the RV570 but with lower specs, of course). It has 24 pixel shaders units with 8 ROPs thus following ATI's traditional 3:1 pixel shader to ROP ratio, with 8 vertex shaders and a 128bit bus attached to 256MB of GDDR3. The reference X1650 XT we are testing today comes with a stock core clock frequency of 575MHz and a memory frequency of 675MHz (or 1.35GHz effective)."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1650 XT VIDEO CARD REVIEW AT ANANDTECH - "That said, the point here is to take a look at a different card, the ATI Radeon X1650 XT, and give you our first impressions. We plan to look at the actual card and its features, as well as how it performs as a single GPU, then with two cards in CrossFire mode. We are also going to look at power consumption, and perhaps most importantly, how does the card compare with others available now and what's it worth to the average buyer. Our initial impressions of the X1650 XT and its performance aren't bad at all (provided manufacturers can hit the $150 target), but we'll delve into this later. For now, let's look at the card."
(10/06) ASUS EAX1950PRO RADEON X1950 PRO REVIEW AT ELITEBS - "RV570 is the first desktop GPU to be manufactured using the 80 nanometre process, and this core is designed specifically as a replacement for ATI's previous, R580 based, Radeon X1900 GT. As a result, its architecture is broadly similar to that seen on the aforementioned part, meaning that it features eight vertex shaders and twelve pixel pipelines, each of which contains a single texturing unit and three pixel shader units, giving it a total of thirty-six. Alongside this, the core features twelve ROPs, and its Ultra Threaded Despatch Processor can handle 384 threads in flight at any one time, compared to 512 on high-end R580-based boards."
(10/06) SAPPHIRE RADEON X1300 XT OC EDITION REVIEW AT TECHPOWERUP - "Together with the Radeon X1950 XTX, ATI introduced additional new cards at the same time: the X1300 XT and the X1650 XT. Today we will take a look at the X1300 XT. This refresh introduces a new GPU into the X1300 product lineup. In the past only the RV515 GPU has been used. On the X1300 XT the RV530 is in use which was limited to the X1600 series until now. This means that the performance of the X1300 XT should be a lot closer to X1600 levels. This performance upgrade makes sense because NVIDIA has several products directly competing with the X1300 and the RV515 is slower than many of these cards."
(10/06) EVGA E-GEFORCE 7600 GTS REVIEW AT MOTHERBOARD.ORG - "For a street price of $116 after mail-in rebate, the 7600GTS is a good alternative to the 7600GT, as its performance is very nearly the same, but the price is lower. After consultation with EVGA, they say the 7600GTS is a cross between the 7600GS and a 7600GT (GDDR3 memory)."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1950 PRO GRAPHICS CARD REVIEW AT TECH REPORT - "The Radeon X1950 Pro is a strong new contender at the value-oriented $199 price point, and it's based on a brand-new mid-range GPU. ATI hasn't had the best of luck with mid-range graphics processors, but it looks like that's about to change. What's more, this new graphics processor at long last incorporates CrossFire capability directly into the GPU. Gone are the external dongles and proprietary CrossFire Edition graphics cards, replaced by simple, SLI-like bridge connectors between the cards."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1950 PRO GRAPHICS CARD REVIEW AT HARDOCP - "This fall, 2006, we have been seeing some fierce competition between NVIDIA and ATI. In fact, it hasn’t even been a full two months since ATI’s last product announcement, the ATI Radeon X1950 series family, yet here we sit today ready to tell you all about another new video card from ATI. In fact, this will not be the only video card being announced this month from ATI either. Understand that these are still DirectX 9 Radeon X1000 series GPU based and not ATI’s next generation technology. We do hope to see that eventually, but it doesn’t appear to be on the radar anytime soon."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1950 PRO GRAPHICS CARD REVIEW AT PC PERSPECTIVE - "With the introduction of a new GPU, dubbed the X1950 Pro, ATI is attempting to pin NVIDIA against the wall in the $200 price segment -- probably the highest volume discrete graphics card market. In this review we'll look at how the ATI X1950 Pro is able to compete with the NVIDIA 7900 GS (the closest price competitor from NVIDIA) as well as the X1800 GTO, an older generation card from ATI that is somehow still priced near the $200 mark. Finally, ATI's CrossFire technology gets an update with this card to an internal, integrated solution. What kind of changes does that move make for ATI?"
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1950 PRO GRAPHICS CARD REVIEW AT HOT HARDWARE - "The new Radeon X1950 Pro is based on the GPU formerly codenamed RV570. but unlike the R580 variants used on the other members of the X1900 family which are built on TSMC's 90nm line, the RV570 is built on the company's 80nm node. The RV570 also has a different pixel shader / vertex shader configuration, and in perhaps the biggest departure from the R580, the RV570 has native CrossFire support. That's right folks - no more CrossFire Master cards and the much maligned external dongle is a thing of the past as well."
(10/06) ATI RADEON X1950 PRO GRAPHICS CARD REVIEW AT FIRINGSQUAD - "While ATI has had a string of successful product launches in the high-end segment of the graphics market, most recently with the arrival of the Radeon X1950 XTX a month ago, ATI has definitely struggled to compete with NVIDIA at the $100-$200 price point in the past 12 months. A year ago ATI’s primary mainstream offering was the Radeon X1600 XT, ATI’s first shader model 3.0 GPU for the mainstream segment."
(10/06) QUAD SLI UNDER THE MICROSCOPE AT TECH REPORT - "OVER THE PAST few years, we've seen an incredible number of extreme hardware solutions marketed to PC gamers: graphics cards that cost over five hundred bucks, thousand-dollar "Extreme Edition" CPUs, motherboards with more ports than Dubai, custom physics processors, and now even a "killer" NIC. Without a doubt, though, the most extreme of all of these offerings has to be Nvidia's vaunted Quad SLI. The concept of running four GPUs together for insane gaming goodness is more extreme than snowboarding down some wicked moguls into a vat of Mountain Dew at the X Games."
(10/06) SAPPHIRE RADEON X1650 PRO REVIEW AT TWEAKNEWS - "Take the X1600 core for instance. You now have the the X1600pro, the X1600XT along with the newly released X1650 pro being reviewed today from Sapphire. You also have the X1300XT to consider seeing it is essentially a remarked X1600pro."
(10/06) NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 7950 GTX PREVIEW AT HOT HARDWARE - "Today, NVIDIA takes the notebook platform yet another step closer to enthusiast desktop performance with the launch of the new GeForce Go 7950 GTX. As the company's new flagship mobile GPU, this graphics chipset offers unprecedented performance for the notebooks without sacrificing the features and functionality a notebook demands. Going through the specifications, it is hard to not be impressed by NVIDIA's latest mobile creation."
(10/06) VISIONTEK RADEON X1300 256MB PCI REVIEW AT ELITE - "Until recently there has been no road for such users to traverse in search of some additional GPU goodness. But now, in a rather surprising move in all honesty, a couple of ATI's AIB partners have come to the rescue, courtesy of PCI-based Radeon X1300 boards. Of course, the RV515 core which powers the Radeon X1300 utilises a PCI Express interface natively, meaning that such boards require the use of a bridge chip to sit between the core and the PCI bus for data transfers."
(10/06) AGEIA REALITYMARK REVIEW AT AMDZONE - "While we applaud that they are attempting to show off the strengths of the hardware, a performance difference this vast with a dual core CPU even this strong is more alarming on their point for bias than something that supports the strengths of the PhysX hardware. In other words, more marketing fluff than anything substantial. We hope Ageia spends more time supporting game developers and finding better uses of their PhysX processors than time spent on a benchmark like this, which is not likely to generate support in the hardware community."
(10/06) MSI GEFORCE NX7900GT VT2D256EHD REVIEW AT VIPER LAIR - "Over in the sub-$200 market there are some compelling choices, but there are some who are willing to spend a few bucks more for the additional performance of cards in the sub-$300 range. The 7900GT falls under this category, specifically the MSI Geforce NX7900GT-VT2D256EHD we'll be looking at today. While the 7950GT just came out recently, the 7900GT price tag is about 40% less than your typical 7900GTX. However, don't let the lower price fool you as you can still get a lot of bang for the buck."
(10/06) ASUS M2N32 SLI NFORCE 590 SLI REVIEW AT PCPER - "Today we are reviewing the Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, based on that same nForce 590 SLI chipset we were bragging about above. The Asus board wasn’t the first to find its way to reviewer’s hands, it was pretty close and there is a good chance this board has populated into many PC enthusiasts systems already."
(10/06) ABIT AB9 PRO REVIEW AT TECH REPORT - "ABIT HAS BEEN ON the comeback trail since its acquisition by USI, and we've been impressed by the company's recent AN8 32X and AT8 32X motherboards for Athlon 64 processors. Intel's Core 2 Duo has become the processor of choice for PC enthusiasts, though, and we've yet to see what a reinvigorated Abit can do with an LGA775 socket."
(10/06) BUDGET ATI CROSSFIRE - X1300XT AND X1650PRO TESTED AT TWEAKTOWN - "The latest budget bad boys to come flying out of the gates from ATI are the Radeon X1300XT and Radeon X1650PRO. Today we have with us the X1300XT DDR3 model from HIS and the X1650PRO DDR3 model also from HIS. We are testing these cards in Crossfire and by themselves."
(10/06) ASUS AGEIA PHYSX REVIEW AT AMDZONE - "Much like OpenGL in it's day, there are handful of games that support PhysX, however unlike OpenGL the results so far haven't been as impressive. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfare is one game that supports the PhysX processor and luckily Asus have included it with the PhysX card they're selling. But the results aren't so earth shattering. Early benchmarks of Ghost Recon and PhysX drastically hurt the overall frames per second, however using the latest driver revisions we didn't have run into as many issues. That said the results weren't too different, with the extra amount of shrapnel and smoke from exploding cars being the most recognizable use of the PPU in the game."
(10/06) X1650 PRO vs GEFORCE 7600 GS REVIEW AT LEGION HARDWARE - "ATI has recently released the Radeon X1650 Pro graphics core featuring just 4 pixel pipelines. In fact, ATI has announced not one but two new mid-range products, which includes the X1650 Pro just mentioned as well as the X1650XT. Both products utilize the same core and memory clock frequencies, though the faster more powerful X1650XT boasts 8 pixel pipelines. This should give the X1650XT a significant performance advantage in most gaming titles. Both of these new parts are based on the original X1600 technology."
(10/06) HIS X1650 PRO ICEQ TURBO REVIEW AT XYZ COMPUTING - "This review is going to take a quick look at the HIS X1650 Pro Turbo 256MB Dual DVI video card. As soon as it was released this card started to take flak from analysts because while it is branded the "X1650 Pro", it is actually a revamped X1600 XT. Some manufacturers, like HIS, have incorporated a few slight changes to the speeds of the core or memory, but the fundamentals are largely the same."
(10/06) ALBATRON KI51PV-754 MOTHERBOARD REVIEW AT TECH REPORT - "Albatron's new KI51PV-754 uniquely blends GeForce graphics, nForce core logic, and support for Turion and Athlon 64 processors on a Mini-ITX motherboard. Read on to see if that combination makes this board a hot hatch like the Audi S3 or something that more closely resembles a Yugo."
