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08/21/2006 03:45 PM
Zozio Senior Member Posts: 2330 Joined: 07/13/2005	QUOTE(Fuad Abazovic @ INQ)ATI's X1950 Pro to cost $199 Nvidia will have to drop By Fuad Abazovic: Monday 21 August 2006, 09:39 WE LEARNED that the upcoming X1950 PRO based on RV570 chip is going to be cheaper than expected. This card is expected in October and will end up with a juicy price of $199. Nvidia will price its Geforce 7900GS at the same price but Nvidia wants to fight RV560 with this card. RV570 is a 256 bit memory interface card with 256 or 512MB memory working at 1100 MHz and engine that is suppose to run at a 600MHz or 650MHz core. Nvidia will have the hard task to fight this one but as it didn’t announced anything it will always be able to make some slight changes in its roadmaps to fight this one.- http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33809 Reader Beware: INQ. -------------------------
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08/21/2006 03:56 PM
shazaam Senior Member Posts: 4201 Joined: 12/24/2005	Iono bout anyone else but that has to be false, there's no way it'd debut at $200 /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> X1800XTs just got down to that price. ATI'd rule any market then. $200 for the top card I don't think so.
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08/21/2006 03:58 PM
k2aka111 Senior Member Posts: 3321 Joined: 03/14/2006	well to have the best stuff peopel can't go out every 40 days and pay $1200 for the latest SLi/crossfire. And if it really is $200 it makes your wonder how much does it really cost to make that thing. ------------------------- Selling Asus M2N32-SLI deluxe & X2 4200+. PM me if interested
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08/21/2006 04:00 PM
Zozio Senior Member Posts: 2330 Joined: 07/13/2005	quote: Originally posted by: k2aka111 well to have the best stuff peopel can't go out every 40 days and pay $1200 for the latest SLi/crossfire. And if it really is $200 it makes your wonder how much does it really cost to make that thing. Trust me, it costs a lot less than $200 to make a gpu. I'd estimate less than $50 for a top of the line one. -------------------------
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08/21/2006 04:04 PM
shazaam Senior Member Posts: 4201 Joined: 12/24/2005	quote: Originally posted by: Zozio Trust me, it costs a lot less than $200 to make a gpu. I'd estimate less than $50 for a top of the line one. until you factor in everything that led up to making it. All the research going into the card/tech itself
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08/21/2006 04:17 PM
axy1985 Ninja Zombie Killer Posts: 6424 Joined: 08/25/2004	great speeds.... but it doesn't say anywhere how much pipes it will have. judging by the price and the GPU clock, i'd say it will be a 12-piped card. sounds really nice! and IIRC, ATI cards tend to unlock... ------------------------- AMD Athlon II X2 440 @ 2.7 GHz (Sempron unlocked) 2x2GB OCZ DDR3 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 AMD Black Edition Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX MSI nVidia GTX460 1GB Hawk X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Antec TruePower New 650W
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08/21/2006 04:21 PM
Zozio Senior Member Posts: 2330 Joined: 07/13/2005	quote: Originally posted by: axy1985 great speeds.... but it doesn't say anywhere how much pipes it will have. judging by the price and the GPU clock, i'd say it will be a 12-piped card. sounds really nice! and IIRC, ATI cards tend to unlock... Try 36. -------------------------
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08/21/2006 04:24 PM
Overmind Assimilator Posts: 8052 Joined: 01/22/2004	Nice first line: faster than 7900GT This could imply also that it has 16 pipes... but who knows... ------------------------- World's best Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge mod and Star Trek: Starfleet Command 3 mod: Overmind.ro
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08/21/2006 04:27 PM
Zozio Senior Member Posts: 2330 Joined: 07/13/2005	quote: Originally posted by: Overmind Nice first line: faster than 7900GT This could imply also that it has 16 pipes... but who knows... Actually it has 36 pipes. -------------------------
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08/21/2006 04:29 PM
Aggressor Prime Senior Member Posts: 1955 Joined: 12/31/2003	Wasn't nVidia doing a similar thing a little while ago with the 7950GT? I only hope this price war carries on to the DX10 versions. That would be sweet! ------------------------- ComputerBB Moderator Dell Inspiron 1720 (Core 2 Duo T7300 : GeForce 8600M GT) BF2142 Brigadier General (All Unlocks)
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08/21/2006 04:32 PM
shazaam Senior Member Posts: 4201 Joined: 12/24/2005	How can it have 36pipes? It's a ramped up 1900 core(RV570?), just GDDR4 and a higher core clock I thought? And the new HSF design.
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08/21/2006 04:33 PM
blizard Senior Member Posts: 1524 Joined: 12/03/2004	quote: Originally posted by: Zozio Try 36. Is it right that with this new card you don't need a mastercard to get crossfire? You only have to buy two of the same and then you have crossfire system with the rigth MB. Then this is really some great news. /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> ------------------------- Abit AT8-32X (Xpress3200)/Athlon64 X2 4200+@stock/Corsair VS 2GB/Samsung SATA II 2x 250 GB/Club3D X1950XT GDDR3 256MB+ PowerColor Theatre 550 pro (PCIe x1)
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08/21/2006 04:35 PM
Zozio Senior Member Posts: 2330 Joined: 07/13/2005	Ugh... x1950/x1650 info: http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108309 Edit: Educate yourselves . -------------------------
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08/21/2006 04:44 PM
k2aka111 Senior Member Posts: 3321 Joined: 03/14/2006	I can't keep up with ATI, for some reason the nvidia numbers make more sense to me than the ATI. ------------------------- Selling Asus M2N32-SLI deluxe & X2 4200+. PM me if interested
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08/21/2006 05:42 PM
victor_c26 Senior Member Posts: 516 Joined: 09/27/2005	I always thought Pixel Shader processors did not equal pixel pipelines. ------------------------- Opteron 175 Denmark Core (2.2 GHz)-------------MSI RS480M2-IL 2 x 1 GB OCZ Plat. DDR400 in Dual Chan.--------eVGA 8800GT SC @ 650/1900 250 GB Seagate Barracude SATA-------------------Audigy \| ES HP Lightscribe DVD Burner--------------------------Asus DVD-ROM
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08/21/2006 05:50 PM
me=kon Case Modder Posts: 779 Joined: 07/19/2006	yea ATI is being weird lately, whatever happened to the x1950xtx? ------------------------- <br>Technic86 "Now I'm gonna agree and wish it was old times again. You know...before the forums were down every other week, before the spambots and hackers came, before the fanboys began to show face(sorry), before the forums went from a Support Place to a battlefield, before short tempers flared and...ahhh so on and so forth. The forums just
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08/21/2006 06:27 PM
elite_athlon Senior Member Posts: 7392 Joined: 06/07/2005	X1650 AGP FTW ------------------------- Join a real forum - http://www.compsupportforums.com/
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08/21/2006 06:55 PM
conzymaher Senior Member Posts: 1103 Joined: 09/16/2005	Ahhhh, I get it now The X1950 series card with the R580 core is the new top of the line card with the 2 slot cooler.. The X1950pro (R570 core) is their new affordable high-end card, like the 7900gt but better And the X1650XT (R560 core) is their new Budget card, like the 7600gt but better I think the reason they chose the un odd model number is becasue they dont want to release the X2000XTX until R600... ------------------------- Core 2 Duo E4300 at stock until my Scythe Ninja arrives Abit AB9 Pro , 2 gigs OCZ Titanium 800mhz (4-4-4-15), Sapphire X1800XT 512MB<!--/color
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08/21/2006 08:09 PM
Zozio Senior Member Posts: 2330 Joined: 07/13/2005	quote: Originally posted by: victor_c26 I always thought Pixel Shader processors did not equal pixel pipelines. Wow, you're right . In the past they were equal, but that has changed within the last year. I just assumed... anyways:CODER580+ - 16 Pixel Pipes - 48 Shader Pipes - X1950XTX - GDDR4 - 90nm R580 - 16 Pixel Pipes - 48 Shader Pipes - X1900XTX - 90nm R580 - 16 Pixel Pipes - 48 Shader Pipes - X1900XT - 90nm R580 - 12 Pixel Pipes - 36 Shader Pipes - X1900GT - 90nm RV570 - 12 Pixel Pipes - 36 Shader Pipes - X1950PRO - 80nm RV560 - 8 Pixel Pipes - 24 Shader Pipes - X1650XT - 80nm -------------------------
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08/21/2006 10:49 PM
axy1985 Ninja Zombie Killer Posts: 6424 Joined: 08/25/2004	aha... so i was right! that's insane.. those cards look friggin sweet! too bad i have a SLI board (wll moddable lol) and not a corssire based one ------------------------- AMD Athlon II X2 440 @ 2.7 GHz (Sempron unlocked) 2x2GB OCZ DDR3 1600MHz 8-8-8-24 AMD Black Edition Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX MSI nVidia GTX460 1GB Hawk X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Antec TruePower New 650W
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