3Digest: October/November 2006: ATI RADEON X1650XT 256MB (600/1400 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 PowerColor RADEON X1650XT 256MB (600/1400 MHz), PCI-E.

Features:

ATI RADEON X1650 XT GPU, 600 MHz clock rate;
Pixel pipelines: 24
Vertex pipelines: 5
Texture processors: 8
ROPs: 8
1.4ns fetch indicates the actual 700 (1400) MHz clock rate; 128-bit bus;
Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 14400 megapixels/sec and 4800 megatexels/sec.

By the end of the month the product costs $150-180, supports DirectX 9.0 (SM3.0). A mid-end card announced in October 2006.

PCI-E x16. 256MB GDDR3 SDRAM in 4 Samsung chips.

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

Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)