O site HardwareZone publicou um review da placa de vídeo Radeon X1950 PRO 512MB Golden Sample, da Gainward. A placa é baseada na GPU ATi Radeon X1950, possui interface PCI Express, 512MB de memória GDDR3 e clocks de 630MHz na GPU e 1450MHz nas memórias.
Especificações:
Graphics Engine ATI Radeon X1950 GPU
330 million transistors on 80nm fabrication process
Core Clock: 630MHz
36 pixel shader processors
12 pixel pipelines
8 vertex shader processors
Ring Bus Memory Controller
512-bit internal ring bus for memory reads
Programmable intelligent arbitration logic
Fully associative texture, color, and Z/stencil cache designs
Hierarchical Z-buffer with Early Z test
Lossless Z Compression (up to 48:1)
Fast Z-Buffer Clear
Z/stencil cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
Ultra-Threaded Shader Engine
Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
Full speed 128-bit floating point processing for all shader operations
Up to 512 simultaneous pixel threads
Dedicated branch execution units for high performance dynamic branching and flow control
Dedicated texture address units for improved efficiency
3Dc+ texture compression
High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and two-channel data formats
High quality 2:1 compression for luminance maps and single-channel data formats
Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
Render to vertex buffer support
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0
Advanced Image Quality Features
64-bit floating point HDR rendering supported throughout the pipeline
Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
32-bit integer HDR (10:10:10:2) format supported throughout the pipeline
Includes support for blending and multi-sample anti-aliasing
2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
Multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sparse sample patterns, and centroid sampling
New Adaptive Anti-Aliasing feature with Performance and Quality modes
Temporal Anti-Aliasing mode
Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
Up to 128-tap texture filtering
Adaptive algorithm with Performance and Quality options
High resolution texture support (up to 4k x 4k)
Flexible display support
Programmable piecewise linear gamma correction, color correction, and color space conversion (10 bits per color)
Complete, independent color controls and video overlays for each display
High quality pre- and post-scaling engines, with underscan support for all outputs
Content-adaptive de-flicker filtering for interlaced displays
Xilleon??? TV encoder for high quality analog output
YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
Spatial/temporal dithering enables 10-bit color quality on 8-bit and 6-bit displays
Fast, glitch-free mode switching
VGA mode support on all outputs
Drive two displays simultaneously with independent resolutions and refresh rates
Graphics Memory 256-bit 8-channel GDDR3 memory interface
512MB DDR3 SDRAM
Memory Clock = 1450MHz DDR
RAMDAC Dual integrated dual-link DVI transmitters
DVI 1.0 compliant / HDMI interoperable and HDCP ready
Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400 MHz DACs
I/O Faceplate Connectors 1 x DVI-I connector (HDCP Support)
1 x VGA analog output
1 x mini-DIN connector
Drivers & Software Driver support for Windows 98 / Me / 2000 / XP
CyberLink DVD Solution
Other Information Dynamic Voltage Control
At least 450W PSU recommended
Native PCI Express x16 bus interface
