3Digest: October/November 2006: ATI RADEON X1300 256MB (450/550 MHz)

Articles

July 17, 2008

Added test results for GeForce GTX 260/280/SLI, RADEON HD 4850/4870.

July 15, 2008

A serious threat to NVIDIA.

July 14, 2008

Consolidating market success.

July 10, 2008

2.5 times the shaders on the example of 4 graphics cards.

July 8, 2008

What an entry-level intergrated board should be?

Some very interesting and original products from Gainward and Forsa.

July 7, 2008

Two motherboards on NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI chipset.

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.

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 November 15, 2006 the latest drivers from ATI were CATALYST 6.11 for Windows XP.

Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)