ATI Radeon X1950 XTX / CrossFire Evaluation

When your NVIDIA 7950 GX2's just arn't fast enough for you.

Looks like ATI is perfecting the dual video card setup, with thier latest CrossFire cards. Now if they could just lower that price...

Introduction

Today’s announcement covers the evolution of ATI’s Radeon X1000 architecture with new video cards for several market segments from value to high-end. Before we begin we want to emphasize that the current AMD buy out of ATI will not be finalized until after the 4th quarter of this year. The proper nomenclature currently for these video cards is still very much “ATI Radeon” video cards and we don’t see that changing anytime soon, you can read about it here, here and here.

For evaluation today we will look at the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX single-GPU video card compared to a single BFGTech GeForce 7950 GX2 as well as an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX. We will compare at 4:3 ratio on a CRT as well as 16:10 aspect ratio on a 24” Dell 2405 FPW at 1920x1200.

For multiple-GPU comparisons we are taking the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire combination and comparing it to two GeForce 7950 GX2’s in QuadSLI on a Dell 3007 FPW 30” LCD at 2560x1600.

These are the video cards we will cover in this evaluation. Due to time constraints (we received our cards this past Friday) we are not able to evaluate real-world gameplay evaluations with the other products being announced today. We will follow up with evaluations on the Radeon X1900 XT 256 MB, Radeon X1650 Pro and Radeon X1300 XT.

Read all about it here, courtesy of HardOcp.com:
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTE0NCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

-Eric