On pages of European sites was many news about the announcement Of radeon x1950 XT 256 mb. The data about technical characteristics differed: some assigned fro this video card the chip r580+, others the good old r580, the type of utilized memery constantly changed from GDDR- E to GDDR-4, we even heared about the possibility of release of video card with 512 mb memory. video card frequencies will be equal to 625/1800 MHz, and recommended price is from $300 or ˆ300. The announcement Of radeon x1950 XT will take place to the end of the current month.
To clear out this situation an interview with ATI representative was accured.
The above ATI represetative confirmed that the company pan to release video card radeon x1950 XT with memory type GDDR- E in the end of October. The new acrd will be based on chip r580+, frequency will be euqla to 625/1800 MHz, and recommended price into $300 make possible to compete with the video card geForce 7900 GTO.
As you already understood, in Europe video card radeon x1950 XT will appear in the end of October.
here is the photograph Of radeon x1950 XT from sapphire.
For example, the number 109-A52031-50 makes possible to determine, that the printed-circuit board has a design Of radeon x1900 XTX. Video card with the design Of radeon x1950 XTX, designed to work with GDDR-4 and r580+ chip , have another number: 102- A91501-00.
This allows to assume that Radeon x1950 XT can use both the R580+ and R580. Theoretically, all will depend on what chips are now be available in ATI, and which of them will be used to sell in the composition of video card with cost of $300.
By the way, to use GDDR-4 in those video card with this price is pretty hard. According to some data, samsung company does not suffer from the memory overproduction for type GDDR-4; therefore all existing reserves are directed to video card class high-end. product NVIDIA on name geForce 8800 GTX will generally use GDDR- E for pice reduction. The fast debut of this video card and uncertainty with the periods of the announcement Of r600 forces ATI to devise all new solutions on the base of existing [videochipov], one of which is Radeon Of x1950 XT.
Only later we succeeded to obtain new information about Radeon x1950 XT from our own source. First, video card will be based on chip r580+, justifying here the presence of "x1950" in the name. To in the second place, The production of Radeon x1950 XT will not be only from sapphire company , but also from other ATI partners. Related Products :
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