X1650XT

[Tute]

Thought i'd start a thread about this card to see what info you guys have.

A quick google only turns up information that it was supposed to launch today with the X1950Pro.

Apparently it's built on 80nm, supports dongle-less Crossfire, and is as fast as, maybe even faster, than the 7600GT.

I don't see them in retail channels though :/

ATi X1650XT and X1950Pro will be available on 17 October

We have received news that ATi will make available on retail channels its new products - X1950Pro and x1650XT.

X1650XT is based on RV560 and X1950Pro is based on the RV570. From what we heard, the X1650XT will have doubled the amt. of Pixel shaders compared to the X1650Pro.

As we have mentioned before, both cards can CrossFire using CrossFire bridge instead of the current cards that uses a Master/Slave configuration using an external cable connection.

 

[Tute]

Yeah, DON'T get this card mixed up with the X1650 Pro, because from what I can see, it's far better performing in shader intensive games.

I'm just shocked at the total lack of information about the card. If it really is a 7600GT killer, and I was ATi, i'd be telling people about it!

 

[Tute]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4666

Another 80nm product joins the lineup

ATI previously released its 80nm RV570 Radeon X1950 Pro mid-range graphics card catered towards the $199 MSRP market. Joining the Radeon X1950 Pro will be a second 80nm product known as RV560.

The RV560 Radeon X1650XT is expected to launch next week with a core clock 575 MHz unlike the previously reported 450 MHz. It appears ATI is getting better yields than previously expected, although the Radeon X1650XT was originally expected for an end of August or beginning of September launch. Radeon X1650XT graphics cards will feature 256MB of GDDR3 clocked at 675 MHz on a 128-bit memory interface. The Radeon X1650XT is expected to have 24 pixel-shaders, 12 pipelines and 8 vertex shaders. Similar to the Radeon X1950 Pro, the X1650XT will also feature an internal connection for CrossFire.

There will be a variety of output configurations for Radeon X1650XT cards. These output configurations include dual dual-link DVI and S-Video, dual single-link DVI and S-Video and lastly dual-link DVI, VGA and S-Video. HDCP will be enabled on Radeon X1650XT graphics cards as well. It’s also theoretically possible to integrate an HDMI output, though that will be up to the graphics card manufacturers.

Radeon X1650XT is expected to launch next week with an MSRP of $149 to take on NVIDIA's 7600GT.

Looking at the benchies posted above, coupled with this news, we might just have a damn good card on our hands here.

Pretty sure ATi are gonna launch this with the X1950 Pro.

 

[Tute]

Time for a bump... as we now have a review!

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2864

It's almost identical to the 7600GT in performance.

This is going to go down to whoever can get their card out cheaper.

However, with the X1650 XT, ATI has one strike against it right off the bat. ATI has said that these parts will not be available for purchase until sometime in mid-November, which means we have on our hands another frustrating paper launch.