ATI’s Radeon X1950 Pro is meant to attain 3 things if you are purchasing a graphics card. The Radeon X1950 Pro represents ATI’s latest move in the continuing price / performance chess match between the 2 3D card corporations. Like most current 3D cards, the Radeon X1950 Pro needs a connection to your Computer’s power supply. The refurbished CrossFire design is maybe more exciting than the Radeon X1950 Pro itself. ATI has eventually overcome the 2 major obstacles that kept us from advising CrossFire over Nvidia’s competing SLI setup.
Also, we are pleased to see that ATI has lost the external dongle that linked the 2 cards together.
We need only to think back to past reviews where we had to overcome not one, but two damaged dongles to get our testing done. Instead, ATI now bridges the 2 chips within your Computer with 2 little ribbon wires that plug into the head of each card ( you get one wire with each card you buy ).
Naturally, the sole displays that will hit 2,560×2,048 run in the $13,000 range, so ATI’s claim isn’t important to many of us, unless you are concerned in medical or army imaging. And sadly, we do not have a $13,000 display in the laboratories, otherwise we might have tested it at this silly resolution. ATI told us that its recommended price for this card would be $199.
We’ve trolled the varied shopping metasearch sites. The general trend of higher costs might be due to offer problems ; ATI says that it’ll drop in the approaching weeks. In our 3DMark 2006 and Oblivion tests, the Radeon X1950 Pro compared well to the GeForce 7900 GS, both in single card and twin card mode. Nvidia took the lead on Quake four, which stunned us, since ATI has done well on that test latterly. Thanks to a test bed flame-out, we are running this review without Half-Life two : Episode One scores. But with the present average street price hovering around $250, we will not advocate it, because Nvidia’s cards are at present more cost-effective.
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