HotHardware reviews Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro video card
Today's high-end flagship video cards may cost an arm and a leg, but that segment of the market is not where the real money is. The big money is made in the low-end and mid-range (or mainstream) segments of the market. It's simple really: most people shopping for a video card have budgeted $100-250, while relatively few have $400+ budgets for just graphics.
Less than two months ago, ATI dropped a new pixel-pushing soldier into the battle for mid-range supremacy. That soldier came in the form of the Radeon X1950 Pro, and it fights the good fight for about $200. Today, we'll be looking at Sapphire's version of the X1950 Pro.
One of the coolest features of the X1950 Pro is its new Native CrossFire support, which means you won't need a master CrossFire card with the X1950 Pro if you want to run in multi-GPU mode. And no more clunky dongle; a welcomed change indeed. In addition to the Native CrossFire support, the X1950 Pro features 256MB of GDDR3 memory, 36 pixel shader processors and 8 vertex shader processors. The specs look good. But how does it really perform? Let's put Sapphire's X1950 Pro through its paces and find out...
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