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Hardware ATI Radeon X1900 GT Leaked
Brandon Hill (Blog) - April 10, 2006 5:24 PM
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ATI adds another SKU to the X1900 series

There is a new Radeon X1900 series graphics card waiting in the wings. According to internal documents, ATI is set to release a single-slot Radeon X1900 GT with 36 pixel shaders. The card is in effect, a cut-down version of the Radeon X1900 XTX and is positioned to go toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's popular GeForce 7900 GT in performance and in price. CrossFire support can be enabled with an external cable connection to a Radeon X1900 512MB CrossFire Edition graphics card. 

Qualification samples of the Radeon X1900 GT are available now with production starting the week of April 14th. According to ATI, support for the X1900 GT will be added in Catalyst driver 6.4 (ver 8.241) -- which ATI expects to release tommorow or the day after. 

Here are the specs for the new card in comparison to the Radeon X1900 XTX:
Radeon X1900 GT
Radeon X1900 XTX
Pixel Shaders
 36 48
Core Clock
575MHz
650MHz
Memory Size
256MB
512MB
Memory Clock
600MHz/1.2GHz
775MHz/1.55GHz

The ATI part number for the X1900GT will be 100-435803.  Samples are already apparently shipping to certain vendors and media.  The X1900GT will only require a single slot cooling solution, but it is up to the AIB partners to specify the exact cooler desired. 

Current GeForce 7900GT cards retail for just over $300.  Vendors tell us pricing has not been officially announced, but that every sign seems to indicate that the X1900 GT will show up priced at or below that $300 magic mark.  Since the Radeon X1900 GT is based on the R580 ASIC, there is already talk that an "unlock" might be in the works to convert an X1900 GT into a full blown X1900 XT.  Coupled with good heat sink solutions, and ATI's new stance on overclocking, the Radeon X1900 GT might be the next killer card this summer.


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Omega Drivers
By Spinne on 4/12/2006 9:23:09 AM , Rating: 2
Doesanyone still use Omega drivers for their ATI cards? I remember in the early days of the Catalyst program when people would swear by the Omega drivers, but I haven't heard about them in forever. The Omega drivers are still produced, BTW - http://www.omegadrivers.net/




RE: Omega Drivers
By goku on 4/13/2006 8:02:53 AM , Rating: 2
Um, yea... Infact there isn't a better time to be using the omegadrivers than now, with ATI shoving the CCC drivers down our throats and all... Omegadrivers are so much beter than then have been before, I plan on sticking with the omegadrivers so long as they exist.


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