Asus Radeon 1950XTX

Ever since ATI has been acquired by AMD, a lot of speculation has gone on concerning its future and its product range. For ATI though, it has been business as usual. In September they introduced their latest batch of the graphical lines with the launch of the flagship model Radeon X1950XTX.

In recent times Nvidia’s G80 chipset had overtaken ATI on every front, but the Radeon 1950XTX continued to remain competitive. In our recent G80 review , the Radeon 1950XTX performed admirably and quite easily kept up with Nvidia’s previous generation product—the GeForce 7950 GX2. Asus’s version of the Radeon 1950XTX is actually a reference card and there has been no change from ATI’s reference card with Clock speeds and memory speeds remaining the same. The HSF has also remained untouched.
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In terms of changes, the Asus ATI Radeon 1950 XTX takes over from the previous generation of Radeon 1900 XTX. The new flagship model is an evolution of the R580 core, which powered the 1900XTX. It adds GDDR4 support, which is a major step forward for the memory clock as it gets bumped up to an awesome 2.000 GHz up from the previous speed of 1.550 GHz. However, that is the only architectural change that has taken place. In terms of clock speed, vertex shaders and Pixel Pipelines processors, there has been no change. It however does get a decent bump in memory bandwidth going to 64.0 GB/s from the earlier figure of 49.6 GB/s and retains its Crossfire capability.

Here is the specification table as compared to its previous iteration

Specification Table