Where are the X1950XT reviews?

[a123456]

Originally posted by: InTheFlow
I actually did so before. However, I'm more interested in how the card will handle newer games like Oblivion and Titan Quest. The games used for testing in that review are older and don't stress a graphics card as hard as the above two games.

If you do comparisons via Tom's VGA chart on those two games at the 1600x1200 resolution, you'll see that the 512MB+ cards do better than almost all of the 256MB ones. In fact, the first 256 card that is listed under the 512 ones is the x1950Pro (choosing titan quest 16x12 for comparison). In part, the extra memory seems to really help with those games.

In the above example, using the 1950xtx with 512MB as a 'close approximation' of how the 1950xt will perform may not be so close after all. Thus the reason I'd like to see the results of the card on the charts.

There are no direct comparisons on Tom's for the memory. Obviously, a X1950Pro 256 isn't going to stack up to a X1900XT 512 (or the other faster 512+M cards) because even the X1950Pro 512 lags behind for multiple reasons beyond the amount of memory.

The comparison is faulty between an X1950XTX and X1950XT because both the memory and core are clocked differently. Hence, the closest comparison is going to be the X1900XT 512, which has the exact same core and different memory. Of course, it's not going to be identical, but it's probably the closest out of the ATI cards listed on Tom's for a *rough* comparison. That's all I was trying to say. Tom's doesn't go above 1600 anyway, where the extra memory would show a larger impact (unless dealing with Ultra+ textures).

Best case, Tom's adds the X1950XT. That probably won't happen for a while. In the mean time, if you can point to another card on Tom's that a better comparison, that would be even better, but I don't see one.

 

[cyclohexane]

love my new sapphire x1950xt, smooth gaming in oblivion (ultra high, 1024 by 768).

 

[InTheFlow]

Originally posted by: a123456

The comparison is faulty between an X1950XTX and X1950XT because both the memory and core are clocked differently. Hence, the closest comparison is going to be the X1900XT 512, which has the exact same core and different memory. Of course, it's not going to be identical, but it's probably the closest out of the ATI cards listed on Tom's for a *rough* comparison. That's all I was trying to say. Tom's doesn't go above 1600 anyway, where the extra memory would show a larger impact (unless dealing with Ultra+ textures).

Best case, Tom's adds the X1950XT. That probably won't happen for a while. In the mean time, if you can point to another card on Tom's that a better comparison, that would be even better, but I don't see one.

I certainly agree that of the cards in the list, the one you recommended is the closest match and understand that you were saying its a probable close match not an exact one. Thanks for going back and forth on this with me.

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
love my new sapphire x1950xt, smooth gaming in oblivion (ultra high, 1024 by 768).

Glad you like it and thanks for sharing. I'm considering that as a temporary replacement for my two 7900s in SLI. It freaked me out when I saw that that single card does better than my SLI setup.

 

[imported_Wolfkin]

Here's another thread about the X1950XT card with links to some reviews
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=1979976

Got myself one for christmas and I'm very happy with it, very powerful.
I do need a faster CPU though to really use the power of the card, noticed I'm a bit bottleneck by my CPU.

Here's some 3dMark numbers I got at default 3dMark settings, use the sytem as stated in my sig.
Driver set at, AA, AF, V-sync off, Catalyst A.I. at standard, Mipmap detail at high quality.

3dMark-05.....9684 points.....10150 points with CPU @ 2386 and RAM @ 434 multiplier at 9x

3dMark-06.....4573 points
SM2.0.............2153
HDR/SM3.0.....2419
CPU................831

3dMark-06 full score is a bit low but it is down to my CPU, SM2/SM3 score is about the same you will get with an overclocked core2duo CPU.

In real world I can run Oblivion at 1280x960 with everything at highest except shadows which I put at 50% (haven't tried higher yet) HDR on. 4xAA and 16x High Quality AF set in drivers. Get about 30-35fps average outside city, would be more with faster CPU.

Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (G.R.A.W) 1280x960 everything at max gives me around 40-60fps average.

 

[Azndude51]

Hot Hardware has another review for the HIS IceQ3 version

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: Azndude51
Hot Hardware has another review for the HIS IceQ3 version

and as expected it soundly trumps anything in its price class.

 

[Azndude51]

Another review from Hi-TechReviews for the HIS IceQ version