http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/10/17/death-of-a-dongle-atis-radeon-x1950-pro/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:12:10 -0500 hourly 1 http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/10/17/death-of-a-dongle-atis-radeon-x1950-pro/comment-page-1/#comment-11757 CrunchGear » Blog Archive » ATI Launches Midrange Radeon X1650 XT Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:05:53 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/17/death-of-a-dongle-atis-radeon-x1950-pro/#comment-11757 [...] It’s always fun to look at, dream about, lust after the high-end stuff, but when it comes down to it, most of us go right for the midrange option on whatever we’re buying. That’s what makes the new CrossFire-ready 256MB X1650 XT so appealing. It’s reasonably priced at $149 and has a good helping of the features you’ll find on the more expensive cards from the company. And it uses the improved version of the ATI’s CrossFire multi-GPU technology. However, the X1650 XT uses GDDR3 instead of the newer GDDR4 memory and has half the pixel shader processors of the X1950 PRO. There’s also no support for DirectX 10 yet, though at this price point, I’m not really sure it would make or break my decision to pick one up. Plus, if you haven’t updated your desktop to PCI Express yet, there’s an AGP version. [...] [...] It’s always fun to look at, dream about, lust after the high-end stuff, but when it comes down to it, most of us go right for the midrange option on whatever we’re buying. That’s what makes the new CrossFire-ready 256MB X1650 XT so appealing. It’s reasonably priced at $149 and has a good helping of the features you’ll find on the more expensive cards from the company. And it uses the improved version of the ATI’s CrossFire multi-GPU technology. However, the X1650 XT uses GDDR3 instead of the newer GDDR4 memory and has half the pixel shader processors of the X1950 PRO. There’s also no support for DirectX 10 yet, though at this price point, I’m not really sure it would make or break my decision to pick one up. Plus, if you haven’t updated your desktop to PCI Express yet, there’s an AGP version. [...]

]]> http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/10/17/death-of-a-dongle-atis-radeon-x1950-pro/comment-page-1/#comment-7941 CrunchGear » Blog Archive » Folding@Home Works 20x Faster On a GPU Than CPU? Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:49:13 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/17/death-of-a-dongle-atis-radeon-x1950-pro/#comment-7941 [...] There’s been rumors on the internets that if you use a GPU (graphics card) like the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro we looked at earlier to run the Folding@Home software, you’ll get 20 to 40 times the output compared to a CPU. That’s a mighty bold claim, one that Techreport discovered wasn’t quite as it seemed. [...] [...] There’s been rumors on the internets that if you use a GPU (graphics card) like the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro we looked at earlier to run the Folding@Home software, you’ll get 20 to 40 times the output compared to a CPU. That’s a mighty bold claim, one that Techreport discovered wasn’t quite as it seemed. [...]

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