ATI X1950 with GDDR4 Memory

[tolstoi]

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the first card to utilize GDDR4 :mrgreen:


ATI Radeon X1950 Announced

Ready or not, here comes GDDR4

This week ATI sent an advisory out to its OEM partners announcing the details of the new Radeon X1950 and X1900 graphic cards. Both of these new cards are based on the same R580 core, but with some fundamental differences.

R580, the 48 pixel-shader processor version of the R520 (Radeon X1800), was announced this past January. R580 features a robust memory controller capable of utilizing several different types of memory, including GDDR4 which was not even available when the Radeon X1900 was first announced. Since then Hynix and Samsung have both jumped on the GDDR4 train with revenue shipments beginning several weeks ago. The new GDDR4 variants of R580-based Radeons are now called Radeon X1950. Radeon X1950 will retain all of the features of the Radeon X1900, and really only have the added benefit of a new cooler, GDDR4 memory and different frequency clocks.

[tolstoi]

it has a neat design too :mrgreen:

[img width=500 height=336]http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/2136_large_r580+_resized.png[/img]

[fish]

selling price for this is around $400

[gravy_addict]

DROOL BABY DROOL!!! hehe

[Spec-V]

I want to see ATI will make a Vid Card that rivals Nvidia'a Dual GPU 7950 GX2

[tolstoi]

^^maybe when ATI's crossfire technology will mature

[gravy_addict]

@ tolstoi..PC freak pud diay ka?hehe

[EarlZ]

I want to see ATI will make a Vid Card that rivals Nvidia'a Dual GPU 7950 GX2

Well if ATI will stick 2 X1900XT boards and claim it a 1 videocard.

[Envy 64Ht]

Hmmmmm :mrgreen: nice..

Pipeline guys, and the Shader ladies are prepping up..

[Spec-V]

Well if ATI will stick 2 X1900XT boards and claim it a 1 videocard.

Yeah..I wanna see that.