ATI X1950XTX Benchmarks Leaked

WingaWinga MrSouth Africa Icrontian
edited August 2006 in Science & Tech
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.
While 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.
Source: Daily Tech

Comments

  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    I think instead of trying to figure out how many cards they can fit on a mobo, they should work on fitting as many gpu's on the card, and to increase performance of it. I have no desire to have more than one video card.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited August 2006
    I secound that, Amen Brother
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2006
    I think instead of trying to figure out how many cards they can fit on a mobo, they should work on fitting as many gpu's on the card, and to increase performance of it. I have no desire to have more than one video card.

    Look. It'll be the same price either way. It's cheaper to develop single-GPU cards.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited August 2006
    The multi-GPU craze is difficult for me to understand. In several months, there will be single card, single GPU solutions that consume 1/4 the electricity and provide equivilant (or better) performance.

    Just seems like such a waste to me.
  • GooDGooD Quebec (CAN) Member
    edited August 2006
    Yep... i'll just sit and wait for a lonnng time :ninja:

    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 :clap:
  • edited August 2006
    Thats pretty cool that a new x1950 is coming out but for those of us that arent gone go foe this kind of performance we have an awesome opportunity since x1950 is about to overtake the the industry the prices of before released x1900 and lover will go down what for us lower shelf consumers means an upgrade for lower price.
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