PowerColor Radeon X1950 Pro AGP Review
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 12/22/2006 05:05 PM [ Print | 3 comment(s) ] · 6379 views
Is PCI Express really faster than AGP? That's one of the questions we set out to answer in today's review of the PowerColor X1950 Pro AGP.
With its Arctic Cooling Accelero 2 cooler it runs nearly silently and its RV570 GPU certainly performs well, but how well does it stack up to other AGP cards like the GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce 7800 GS AGP, as well as the Radeon X850 XT PE AGP? Find out in today's review!
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With its Arctic Cooling Accelero 2 cooler it runs nearly silently and its RV570 GPU certainly performs well, but how well does it stack up to other AGP cards like the GeForce 6800 Ultra and GeForce 7800 GS AGP, as well as the Radeon X850 XT PE AGP? Find out in today's review!
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The_GURU Unregistered |
#65772 Posted on: 12/23/2006 09:28 AM
I'd say PCI-e got knocked down a notch or two  |
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Kaleid Junior Member Posts: 5 Joined: 2004-11-07 |
#65778 Posted on: 01/01/2007 01:40 AM
Yes, but as they noted "Technically the AGP interface is dead, but obviously it’s still delivering solid performance in today’s games. While we did see a slight advantage in favor of the PCIe-based X1950 Pro card in our benchmarks, keep in mind that the PCIe card was running on a high-end nForce 590 motherboard with DDR2-800 memory. The AGP-based PowerColor X1950 Pro card was using NVIDIA’s older nForce3 chipset and relied on slower DDR400 RAM." It's possible that the advantage to the PCI-E card lies here... |
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Peav Member Posts: 69 Joined: 2002-12-22 |
#65779 Posted on: 01/01/2007 12:43 PM
I'd say your right, Bought one of the Saphire 512mb Versions and its fantastic . 3Dmark 05 @ 9147 3DMark 06 @ 4500ish. Not bad for what is a mainstream card. Also means I can keep my s939 based system for a while longer whilst I wait for the PC hardware world to settle into some kind of recognised standard. AMD64 3500+ @ 2.65Ghz, 2GB Corsair Twinx 3200@ 240FSB, K8N Neo2 Platinum mainboard. Id say if you looking for an upgrade even for a year, at £150 you cant go wrong. Worry about a full upgrade when DX10 and Games are here properly. |
