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| | (Post a comment) » ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB Performance PreviewWith the debut of the Radeon X1950 XTX, prices on the rest of ATI's lineup have now fallen. But ATI's decided to concoct something special to take down NVIDIA's popular GeForce 7900 GT GPU: the Radeon X1900 XT 256MB! The X1900 XT 256MB retains all the key features found in more expensive 512MB X1900 cards, only it has half the memory and a much lower $279 price tag. Join us as we explore the performance of this card in comparison to both stock and factory overclocked GeForce 7900 GT cards, and how much of a performance impact does 512MB of memory have on performance? Read the answers inside! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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 deimos47 (434)   Aug 23, 2006 - 08:52 am
| Best lineup, huh?
I see things quite differently. In fact, lose lose scenario. ATI's R580 GPU is equiped with many more transistors than the G71 (7900's), and consequently is considerably larger. Additionally, due to the large power requirements, X1900's have numerous sophisticated voltage regulation components. The net result is a much more expensive to manufacture product.
So, for every board nVidia sells, ATI has to sell more to make as much profit. If ATI focuses on the profits, they would have to raise prices, and lose marketshare. If ATI focuses on the marketshare, they have to keep prices competitive with nVidia's and erode profit margins.
ATI's BIG MISTAKES:
X1600. Far and above, this goes in the same category as X600. The key is to produce as cheap as possible products to meet critical market price points. nVidia's covered from top down with very economical 7600GS and 7600GT (and soon 7900GS). ATI just has an empty void.» Login to reply to this  MrWizard6600 (25)  Aug 27, 2006 - 02:48 am
| yeah its a pretty sweet lineup
good point. it does have more transistors, but you are slighly over reacting. the R580 is a beast for power, but i dont think the voltage regulators are so expensive.
The X1600s only mistake was made by marketing, dont enter this into the gamer/enthusaist market. dont even try. this is a powerful card for the average inter-netter, movie-watcher (some X1600s do support HDCP), umm, basic CS1.6 player etc. etc. it cant do prey, dont even make it try. it was a gusty architecture and it failed. releasing the 512mb version was the worst thing ATi has done with this card. the core cant run a game thats capible of resolutions that can use 512mb of buffer.
imho, theres a gap between 7600GS and 7600GT. ones $130CDN the others $220CDN thats a big effin gap, i have a few customers who fall under this gap. the only thing i can do for them is build a pc with a 7600GS with active cooling and hope it ocs well. giving the customer a crash course in ocing.
unless the 7950GT can outperform this, and these cards follow schedualed cost, i will be buying one of these, and not a 7900GT/7950GT.
-- mind you thats a few weeks down the road, well see how things go....» Login to reply to this |
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dranzerk (23) Aug 23, 2006 - 04:48 am
| » Pacific mFighters benchmark messed up
1900XT 256meg is not listed on benchies..they look like from previous article..heh» Login to reply to this |
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