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Powercolor ATI X1950XTX 512Mb Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by piotke @ 2006-08-23

ATI is back with a vengenance, the X1900 series was craving for extra memory bandwidth and the X1950 delivers, Powercolor send us their X1950XTX for a thorough gameplay evaluation, read on if this new video card is a 7950GX2 killer, and if the new cooler is "all that".

FEAR

FEAR

A creepy atmosphere, challenging enemy AI and high quality graphics make FEAR an immersive experience. We used FRAPS to monitor frame rate as we played through a section of the game.

Madshrimps (c)

The tables are turned, the dual GPU solution from NVIDIA has a very noticeable lead in average FPS. But even with 4xAA enabled the frame rate remains above 60FPS, with the X1950XTX again having only the slightest of leads on its older brother.

Madshrimps (c)

At higher resolutions the game remains playable with all VGA cards, the 7950GX2 still has a nice lead with neither ATI card coming close.

On to the next games, Call of Duty 2 and Battlefield 2. >>>>>>

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