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X1950 XTX review/performance

So far, it seems like just standard revision of the 1900 XTX with faster GDDR4 memory and an improved cooling system. Not saying that either of those are bad things - definitely seems like a good product, but those ATi internal test graphs that some sites are quoting seem to be exaggerated.
 
Overall Gameplay Evaluation


Overall, with very few exceptions, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX provided a noticeable and tangible improvement in the gameplay experience over the Radeon X1900 XTX. Compared to the BFGTech GeForce 7950 GX2 it even performed better than that in some games, while in others they were even. Simply put, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX won more games and scenarios than it lost them compared to the BFGTech GeForce 7950 GX2.



Image Quality


We can’t say enough about the great image quality produced by the ATI Radeon X1900/X1950 series. Just at its base level filtering quality seems to be better compared to NVIDIA’s default driver settings. There is less noticeable texture crawling and moiré. Though in some games the moiré is equally disturbing like Prey, this seems to simply be a game problem. Perhaps we need an anti-moire setting eh? The ability for ATI video cards to enable high quality anisotropic filtering which helps texture quality at steep angles is another benefit they currently have. It provides real tangible results.


All ATI X1000 series video cards also support HDR + AA. We have seen where this is very usable in Oblivion. The new Radeon X1950 XTX allows 2X AA with HDR and very high in-game settings for a very immersive and enjoyable gaming experience. With faster performance overall the Radeon X1950 XTX allows you to increase some visual quality settings further improving the gameplay experience.
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Summary from HardOCP !
 
The two reviews report slightly different results, but overall I would say that the X1950XTX has failed to provide the performance jump many have hoped for. More reviews will hopefully round the picture out further but the nvidia 7950 GX still looks like it's ahead in some areas.
 
not very good results so far, or shall i say mixed reviews but all pointing in one direction the power is not there to destroy the gx2.

its looking like crossfire x1900xt for me, the price difference too much to warrant wasting money on these cards, specially when new gfx cards are right round the corner.
 
Eliot said:
my faoith in gibbo is restored :cool:
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Well I am a little annoyed as was expecting more than this.

One on one against the 7950 GX2 the X1950 XTX is definetely not as quick in most games. Though its not miles behind and I've got a feeling there will be some nice improvements to come as at the moment that super-fast memory seems to be having practically no effect.

Though what I have noticed from the benchmarks is that X1950 XTX Crossfire seems as quick or quicker than Quad SLi, plus the fact more stable I'd imagine too and a lot less heat produced too. :)

Best bet is to go X1900 Crossfire, you can now do it for practically £400 if you purchase from OcUK as we got the best deals. From looking at all these benchmarks X1900 Crossfire is as quick as 7950 GX2 in Quad SLi but Crossfire is definetely more stable and works with all games. :)

If it was my money I'd be buying HIS X1900 Crossfire and a HIS X1900 XT, that why you get good cooling, silence and Quad SLi performance levels for around £450 Inc. VAT. :D :D
 
Problem I always find is with the Hardocp benchmarks is they change the quality settings for the different cards. For example in the oblivion test on the 7950 they had shadows enabled and on the ati cards they was set to off etc. I think with hardocp you have to read the detail as it seems the X1950 has the better image quality compared to 7950 higher frame rate. X1950 still looks to be a great card specially at the price guess its up to you if you think better quality image or a higher framerate is what your looking for.
 
Well you could look at it like this:

The 1950 XTX is a single core solution and performs nearly as well as the 7950 in some cases, which is basically 2 cores sandwiched together (am I wrong?). Pretty impressive stuff for a single core card :)

Even so, the way people were talking about them, I was expecting to throw my 7800 GTX SLi set up in the bin, but after seeing some of the benchamrks, guess I'll be waiting for the DX10 cards :)
 
If it was my money I'd be buying HIS X1900 Crossfire and a HIS X1900 XT, that why you get good cooling, silence and Quad SLi performance levels for around £450 Inc. VAT.
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that is what i plan to do :)

all i need now is a good 30" lcd screen, just out of interest why does ocuk not stock the dell 30" anymore?
 
AMDPower said:
that is what i plan to do :)

all i need now is a good 30" lcd screen, just out of interest why does ocuk not stock the dell 30" anymore?
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Because DELL offer no discount on that screen so at the moment its pointless us stocking it. Best buy directly from them or hold out for the new Samsung 30" due in a months or so time. :)
 
msmalls74 said:
Problem I always find is with the Hardocp benchmarks is they change the quality settings for the different cards. For example in the oblivion test on the 7950 they had shadows enabled and on the ati cards they was set to off etc.
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They turn off shadows but add on 2xAA for the ATI cards and not the NVidia ones..

Swings and roundabouts really..
 
Because DELL offer no discount on that screen so at the moment its pointless us stocking it. Best buy directly from them or hold out for the new Samsung 30" due in a months or so time.
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thanks, just what i wanted to hear, will hold out. :)

just out of interest does anyone know if you can overclock cards in crossfire setup?
 
there we go that andantech review will shut up the idiots how are just randomly insultsing the card even though really they want it.
On a par with a 7950 or close to buut cheaper by a margain.
 
gamesreviewer said:
I think they just have!

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2821&p=1
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*Goes to read.* :D

Eliot said:
there we go that andantech review will shut up the idiots how are just randomly insultsing the card even though really they want it.
On a par with a 7950 or close to buut cheaper by a margain.
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You mean how you just randomly insulted people who have noted that pretty much every review so far has shown that this £330 card has a few fps increase over a £220 card and realise how pointless this release may be? :confused:

I did want an X1950 until the reviews came out, now I want an X1900XT. It's called common sense.

P.S. It's showing the exact same resuts as all of the other reviews, how is this going to "shut us idiots up"?
 
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Eliot said:
there we go that andantech review will shut up the idiots how are just randomly insultsing the card even though really they want it.
On a par with a 7950 or close to buut cheaper by a margain.
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Read it, its still crap, sorry. :(

I don't konw how its going to beat Quald SLi when its gets whooped of 2x 7900 GTX's in SLi. :confused:

Oh and i don't want it at all, x1800 is still throwing everything around fine for me, nigh on a year after its release. :)
 
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