Gigabyte Radeon X1900XTX review

By Steven Walton on April 14th, 2006

ATI is now on track with a wide range of new and exciting products, the latest of which is a terrifying 48 pixel pipeline monster. Known as the Radeon X1900 this new GPU comes in two flavors.

The Radeon X1900XT features a core clock of 625MHz, matching that of the now older X1800XT. The memory frequency is slightly lower than that of the X1800XT as it has been dropped down to 1.45GHz. However, thanks to an additional 32 pixel pipelines the X1900XT is more than likely to compensate for that.

... Bottom-line is the Radeon X1900XTX is an incredible product, probably ATI’s most impressive achievement yet. However, you have to question the value of such a product, at $500-600 the Radeon X1900XTX is also the most expensive gaming card on the market along with competing GeForce 7900 GTX which costs about the same.

Considering that the slightly lower clocked X1900XT can save you some money, it could well become a better option instead. It all depends on the deal you come across, as all of these products are predestined to drop in price, sometimes even dramatically, we already could find some Radeon X1900XT cards retailing for less than $450, making them quite a good ‘value’.

In the majority of the tests the Radeon X1900XTX was not a hell of a lot faster than the older Radeon X1800XT. Although it was faster in every test, the performance margins never really exceeded 5-6fps; given the average frame rate was always above 60fps this is not a huge difference. That said the Radeon X1900XT is only going to be a couple of frames slower than the X1900XTX.

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