HotHardware reviews ATI Radeon X1950 Pro video card
It's been only seven short weeks since ATI officially unveiled four additions to the X1K family of products, and here we are again with yet another new Radeon poised to shake-up the mid-range segment of the market. The new Radeon X1950 Pro is based on the GPU formerly codenamed RV570. but unlike the R580 variants used on the other members of the X1900 family which are built on TSMC's 90nm line, the RV570 is built on the company's 80nm node. The RV570 also has a different pixel shader / vertex shader configuration, and in perhaps the biggest departure from the R580, the RV570 has native CrossFire support. That's right folks - no more CrossFire Master cards and the much maligned external dongle is a thing of the past as well.
We've recently got our hands on a pair of Radeon X1950 Pro cards and have our thoughts and experiences with them laid out for you on the pages ahead. Read on to see what ATI has in store for the mid-range segment of the market as we head into the pre-Vista, holiday buying season...
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