3Digest: March 2007 ATI RADEON X1300 256MB (450/550 MHz)

Articles

July 3, 2008

Hybrid CrossFire and High-Definition video.

July 2, 2008

How memory speed affects CPU performance.

June 28, 2008

High capacity, high frequency and Green design.

June 27, 2008

Reference cards in nice boxes.

June 26, 2008

What does it offer for 399 USD?

June 25, 2008

Stakes on the odd.

June 23, 2008

Transition to DDR3, 1600 MHz FSB support, fully-fledged PCI-E 2.0.

Will it outperform 9800 GX2? (Updated: now also with synthetic test results.)

June 17, 2008

Version 3.0.

June 16, 2008

Added test results for 2 x GeForce 9800 GX2 Quad SLI.

This GPU is presented by Sapphire RADEON X1300, 256MB, PCI-E.

Features:

ATI RADEON X1300 GPU, 450 MHz core clock;
Pixel pipelines: 4
Vertex pipelines: 2
Texture processors: 4
ROPs: 4
2.8ns fetch indicates 350 (700) MHz, but the memory operates at 550 MHz. 128-bit bus;
Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 1800 megapixels/sec and 1800 megatexels/sec.

By the end of the month the product costs $80-100, supports DirectX 9.0c. This low-end card was announced early in October.

PCI-E x16. 256MB DDR SDRAM in 8 Hynix chips.

On March 15, 2007 the latest drivers from ATI were CATALYST 7.3 for Windows XP.

Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)

05.03.2007