14 DAY TRIAL // The X1950 XTX cards are available in Germany for ?370 (the full retail box). You can even order one on-line. This is the cheapest high end card for some time. Another model that you can order is the Power Color X1950 XTX card (at ?404.79).
The card was announced as ready to be launched in August, along with the Radeon X1900XT 256, the Radeon X1650 Pro and the X1300XT. The "256" was equivalent to the previous X1900XT except the fact it had 256 GDDR3 instead of 512. The "Pro" was identical with Radeon X1600XT, the only things changed being the name and the price. The same thing applies for X1300XT, formerly known as X1600 Pro.
Here are the specs for the X1950XTX: Process Technology at 90 nm, 384M Transistors, 650(650) Mhz Core(Vertex) Clock, 8 Vertex Shaders, 48 Pixel Shaders, 16 ROPs, 16 Texture Units, 512 Mb Frame Buffer Size, 64 Gb/s Memory Bandwidth, 1300 Millions Vertices/s, 10.4 Pixel Fill Rate (ROPs x dk) in billions/s, 41.6 Texture Fill Rate (Texture units x dk) in billions/s, PCI Express Bus.
A little while ago, PR manager Will Willis stated that "Card orders can be taken on 23 August, but they won't ship until September 14". It looks like this is the first ATI card launched on time in this period.