ATI X1950XTX Benchmarks Leaked
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DailyTech have received early benchmarks of ATI’s upcoming Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire graphics cards which seem to have the upper hand against NVIDIA’s Quad SLI.
Specifications for the Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire are officially set at a 650 MHz core clock and 2 GHz effective memory clock. The core clock remains unchanged from the X1900XTX while the memory clock sees a 450 MHz boost. The X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFires are also equipped with 90nm Samsung GDDR4 memory.
The two test systems were identical except the nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition motherboard was swapped out for an early Radeon Xpress 3200 (RD600) motherboard and two ATI Radeon X1950XTX/CrossFire graphics cards. These were tested against NVIDIA’s Quad SLI.
The games that seem to heavily favour ATI such as Call of Duty 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and Serious Sam II, beat the Quad SLI by a very wide margin. Traditional NVIDIA supported games like FarCry, Quake 4 and Doom 3 benchmarks shows the Quad SLI system creeping up in performance, but still falling short of ATI’s X1950XTX/CrossFire system. F.E.A.R. is the only game that takes advantage of Quad SLI, beating out the similarly configured X1950XTX/CrossFire system.
Specifications for the Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire are officially set at a 650 MHz core clock and 2 GHz effective memory clock. The core clock remains unchanged from the X1900XTX while the memory clock sees a 450 MHz boost. The X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFires are also equipped with 90nm Samsung GDDR4 memory.
The two test systems were identical except the nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition motherboard was swapped out for an early Radeon Xpress 3200 (RD600) motherboard and two ATI Radeon X1950XTX/CrossFire graphics cards. These were tested against NVIDIA’s Quad SLI.
The games that seem to heavily favour ATI such as Call of Duty 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and Serious Sam II, beat the Quad SLI by a very wide margin. Traditional NVIDIA supported games like FarCry, Quake 4 and Doom 3 benchmarks shows the Quad SLI system creeping up in performance, but still falling short of ATI’s X1950XTX/CrossFire system. F.E.A.R. is the only game that takes advantage of Quad SLI, beating out the similarly configured X1950XTX/CrossFire system.
Source: Daily TechWhile these early benchmarks show ATI’s X1950XTX/CrossFire beating out NVIDIA’s Quad SLI there’s more to the story. Since the benchmarks are only comparing performance with 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering at most, it doesn’t show the true performance of NVIDIA’s Quad SLI. The true performance of Quad SLI being its capability to render high levels of anti-aliasing without taking a heavy performance hit.
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Look. It'll be the same price either way. It's cheaper to develop single-GPU cards.
Just seems like such a waste to me.
Seems like they are in for a long fight of multiple graphic cards so let them do their war and after that they'll try something else