256MB Sapphire Radeon X1950XT or 512MB XFX 7950GT XT

VicarVicar Icrontian
edited December 2006 in Hardware
I need your help people in chosing one of the above cards. I am torn btw them as a stop gap till 2nd gen Dx10 cards hit the street.

The 256MB Sapphire Radeon X1950XT is £176.12

While the 512MB XFX 7950GT XT is on sale for £182.13.

I am leaning towards the X1950XT, noise is an issue, but i might have to live with it and power supply is no problem as i have a 600w psu. Any Suggestions welcome.

will the 256MB v 512Mb make a diff in video editing?

many thanks.

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    What do you do on your computer?
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Mainly desk top publishing, Video Editing, and looking to play a few games time permitting.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    What games?
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Currently got Quake 4, serious sam 2,Myst, Tom Clancy rainbow 6
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    X1950XT wins.
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Many Thanks for all your help, X1950Xt it is.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Glad I could be of assistance. :)
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Thrax i'm sorry to bother you one more time on this issue.

    Just saw the HIS ATI Radeon X1950 XT ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT @£199.74 is this a better buy than the 256MB Sapphire Radeon X1950XT i@ £176.12?

    Was looking at noise level and HIS is said to be quiet. Hoping to purchase one of the above on Monday.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    It's slightly quieter. If that's worth £23 extra for you, go get 'em, tiger. :)
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Many Thanks was thinking of changing the HSF on the saphire to an Artic Cooling Accelero X2, works out almost the same. Will let you know how i get on.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    I am unable to confirm Thrax's finding as I have yet to see any Benchmarks based on the X1950XT with 256MB. Most benchmarks on the market cover the X1950Pro and the X1950XTX. The Pro being the most similar to the X1950XT is slower than a 7950GT 512MB. But overall both cards would perform very well.
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Now i am really getting confused. i need to make a decision soon & was looking at the HIS ATI Radeon X1950 XT ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB

    http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-067-HT

    Am i still on the right track???????
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited December 2006
    Take Thrax's advice and get the ATI. (Unless you ever plan to switch to linux later down the road)
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Many thanks. This is just to tie me in till i build a new rig and transfer this card into it.

    I am going to wait for the 2nd or 3rd gen DX10 cards and i will eventually run linux just waiting for centos 5 to come out and it will be hopefully with a DX10 card.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    GrayFox wrote:
    Take Thrax's advice and get the ATI. (Unless you ever plan to switch to linux later down the road)

    Why would you say that? Any support to back it up? I am not saying you or Thrax are wrong, I just can find any supporting info on the chip that says the X1950XT is faster. What I have seen is the core speed and setup is just like the X1950Pro which is much slower than the 7950GT. unless they boosted something in the X1950XT than I would assume they are at par with each other, and both items would be a good buy. Now the X1950XTX blows the 7950GT out of the water....
  • pexpex
    edited December 2006
    Sledgehammer70 wrote:
    Why would you say that? Any support to back it up? I am not saying you or Thrax are wrong, I just can find any supporting info on the chip that says the X1950XT is faster. What I have seen is the core speed and setup is just like the X1950Pro which is much slower than the 7950GT. unless they boosted something in the X1950XT than I would assume they are at par with each other, and both items would be a good buy. Now the X1950XTX blows the 7950GT out of the water....

    The x1950xt is the same as an x1900xt 512 except with faster memory (1800vs 1440) and hdcp support. It is a 16pipline 48 shader part. The pro is a 12 pipline 36 shader part.

    Look up reviews on the x1900xt if you want to see, its usually faster than 7950.

    You can see the specs of the HIS x1950xt on newegg.

    I just picked one up myself.

    Cheers,

    Steve
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    I have been looking for reviews on this chip and all that turns up is X1950XTX benchmarks. If you have a few links to a X1950XT review, I would love to check it out.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Pex gave me this link that has all the info on the X1950XT.

    ATI Radeon X1950XT GPU (R580)
    384 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process
    Core Clock: 625MHz
    Memory Clock: 1800MHz DDR
    48 pixel shader processors
    16 pixel pipelines
    8 vertex shader processors

    One of the only reviews online can be found here

    In all but 2 of the benchmarks the X1950XT does beat out the 7950GT...
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Sledgehammer70, can you please post the link for the X1950XT which Pex gave to you.

    Many Thanks
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    It is posted :) click the word Here! in the above post.
  • pexpex
    edited December 2006
    Vicar wrote:
    Sledgehammer70, can you please post the link for the X1950XT which Pex gave to you.

    Many Thanks

    Vicar - Just click where it say "here" in the post its a link. Kind of hard to see.

    - Pex
  • VicarVicar Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Many thanks must increase my carrot intake:wow2:
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