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Sapphire's Latest X1950 Models The X1900 Series reloaded	By Anca Rusu, Technology Editor 24th of August 2006, 14:48 GMT Adjust text size:


Sapphire, the manufacturer well known for its graphics dedicated products, has just enlarged its range of graphics accelerators and introduced the new Sapphire X1950 series, an enhancement brought to the previous X1900 line-up. The product targets the hardcore enthusiasts and, therefore, uses GDDR3 memory and improved clock speeds of 650MHz (core) and 1000MHz (memory), which, if it is hooked up with a corresponding X1950 Crossfire Edition and a suitable Crossfire enabled motherboard, will make one of the fastest overall graphics. "The Sapphire X1950 uses the same architecture as the highly successful X1900XTX. This includes 48 pixel shader processors and 8 vertex shader processors together with a 512-bit ring-bus based internal memory controller together delivering true DirectX9 Shader Model 3.0 compatibility. Sapphire's X1950XTX and X1950 Crossfire Editions will be available from September 14th 2006. Sapphire's X1900XTX continues to be available, offering enthusiasts a choice of high performance graphics solutions at different price points," pointed out Hardware Zone. The manufacturer said that these new products will deliver, almost in a blink of an eye, great realistic effects such as the simulation of fluids and shadows. The architecture supports ATI's Avivo technology, which delivers a video playback compliant with the High Definition standard. Moreover, the image quality is enhanced by a 64-bit floating point High Dynamic Range rendering (HDR), blending capability and "high quality anisotropic filtering (AF) combined with up to 12x Anti-Aliasing (AA) in Crossfire mode", according to Sapphire's specialists.

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Comment #1 by: BlueSabre on 25 Aug 2006, 09:20 GMT

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There is one thing wrong about your article Anca:
it's DDR3, not DDR4 - if you don't believe me look here:
http://www.sapphiretech.com/uk/products/products_overview.php?gpid=161&grp=3

look there at the specs

If you want DDR4, look here @ GeCube, the best ATI videocards producer: http://www.gecube.com/products-detail.php?prod_cat_pid=8&prod_cat_id=159&prod_id=62851

picture here: http://www.imagevenue.us/out.php?i=4075_GCX1950XTXB.jpg

Comment #2 by: Androm on 14 Sep 2006, 12:27 GMT	reply to this comment
I think you need to have your eyes tested.. In the link you gave you can quite clearly see that it IS in fact GDDR4! Sapphire is also the biggest partner to ATI, GeCube is one of the smaller, worse quality ones!! You need to do your research....

Comment #2.1 by: BlueSabre on 25 Oct 2006, 10:22 GMT

They must have changed the info, but it was DDR3 when I looked. I don't care what you think kid, Sapphire is good but not the best, even if you have into your computer a Sapphire card. And I also think you have never had a real test of a high-end GeCube card.

But then again, I don't need to convince you, it is of no use to me. Remain as you are :))) Not all people need to know about the good things.

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