256MB Sapphire Radeon X1950XT or 512MB XFX 7950GT XT
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.
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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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.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-067-HT
Am i still on the right track???????
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.
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
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...
Many Thanks
Vicar - Just click where it say "here" in the post its a link. Kind of hard to see.
- Pex