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Hardware AMD Announces ATI "RV560" Radeon X1650 XT
Anh Tuan Huynh (Blog) - October 30, 2006 11:23 AM
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The first green ATI product

AMD today announced the release of its ATI Radeon X1650 XT graphics card targeted towards value markets. The AMD ATI Radeon X1650 XT features 24 pixel shaders with 8 pixel pipelines as previously reported. As with the Radeon X1950 Pro, the Radeon X1650 XT features internal CrossFire connectors for multi-GPU capabilities on AMD ATI CrossFire Xpress, Intel 975X and P965 based motherboards. AMD claims:

The ATI Radeon X1650 XT redefines value at this phenomenal level of performance and features,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Products Group, AMD. “This new product simplifies the CrossFire experience by using two identical ATI Radeon X1650 XT CrossFire branded cards. Gamers can expect strong performance, flexibility and upgradeability with this new card.

On the multimedia side of things the AMD ATI Radeon X1650 XT features AVIVO technology and HDCP compliance with integrated EEPROM and HDCP keys. The card is also fully compliant with Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Vista with Aero glass interface as well.

Sapphire Technology is the first add-in board partner to announce a Radeon X1650 XT based graphics card. The Sapphire Radeon X1650 XT features a 575 MHz core clock coupled with 1350 MHz GDDR3 memory. Sapphire offers the Radeon X1650 XT in 256MB and 512MB variants, though both memory capacities are limited by a 128-bit memory interface. Rounding out the Sapphire package are dual dual-link DVI and a TV outputs.

AMD ATI Radeon X1650 XT based cards are expected to arrive on store shelves the week of November 13th, 2006 at a $149 price point. This places it against NVIDIA’s GeForce 7600GT. The Radeon X1650 XT will only be available in PCI Express initially. AMD has no plans to release an AGP variant officially, though it wouldn’t be surprising to see add-in board partners such as PowerColor release an AGP Radeon X1650 XT.

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Weird
By mendocinosummit on 10/30/2006 1:19:02 PM , Rating: 2
Does anybody else feel weird when seeing the AMD announces an....




RE: Weird
By Tsuwamono on 10/30/2006 1:34:20 PM , Rating: 2
i almost cried when i saw the ATI site in all white... I liked the old ATI site.


RE: Weird
By TejTrescent on 10/30/2006 1:36:00 PM , Rating: 2
So.. awkward..


Not likeing...
By Trisped on 10/31/2006 12:02:37 PM , Rating: 1
I am less and less happy with the AMD ATI merger. It looks like AMD is trying to swallow ATI whole, so that there will only be one bigger AMD. I liked ATI. I liked that they had a red log which shows up nice on monitors. I liked that they seemed like a company focused on making graphics cards.

Now AMD seems to just be twisting them to make their products better. Maybe things will get better, or maybe ATI will disappear completely and AMD will be the name on the video cards. If that happens I will not be happy.




RE: Not likeing...
By glennpratt on 10/31/2006 12:20:14 PM , Rating: 2
I guess it depends on who you liked before. I didn't like ATI much before and I'm hoping AMD will demand a little more quality, especially in the software department (drivers, media applications, etc.)

I always felt ATI made better hardware than nVidia but it was often let down by the software.


RE: Not likeing...
By Pwnt Soup on 10/31/2006 3:33:33 PM , Rating: 2
i second that. ati had a better product in most cases, but the drivers and other software left me thinking i had gotten beta software and drivers.


I agree...
By spindoc on 10/30/2006 1:27:52 PM , Rating: 2
I always feel like something is lost when a company is absorbed by a larger one.

Well, hopefully less overhead will translate to savings for consumers? haha.




yadda yadda
By poohbear on 10/30/06, Rating: -1
RE: yadda yadda
By Anh Huynh on 10/30/2006 2:36:01 PM , Rating: 2
Because AMD is the parent company and all press releases are now sent out as AMD. The product is made by AMD and the complete model name is ATI Radeon X1650 XT.

All of ATI's staff has been absorbed into AMD with @amd email addresses. ATI is now only a name for graphics and motherboard products.


RE: yadda yadda
By S3anister on 10/30/2006 2:37:23 PM , Rating: 2
well, i do believe that he(?) has to say AMD ATI, because amd owns ati now... ati is no longer its own company, therefore amd announced... not ati.


RE: yadda yadda
By poohbear on 10/31/06, Rating: 0
RE: yadda yadda
By glennpratt on 10/31/2006 12:16:14 PM , Rating: 2
I don't know if you've been to www.ati.com lately, but it redirects to ati.amd.com and there isn't a single ATI logo on the page. The titile of the page is Advanced Micro Devices - Graphics and Media Processors. Not exactly what happens when you go to Blizzards website.


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