jmke

The Radeon X1650 is, in many senses, of far more interest than the R580 refresh part that is the Radeon X1950 XTX - Mid-range is where ATI really needed to freshen up and rearrange their product line, and that's exactly what they've done. Although we don't have a Radeon X1650 XT part on hand to see how it stands up against a GeForce 7600 GT (which, for me, is the most important battle of them all), ATI's shrunk to 80nm RV535 in the form of the Radeon X1650 PRO has struck an important blow against NVIDIA's GeForce 7600 GS part. From testing with PowerColor's X1650 PRO offering, we can see that it topples the GeForce 7600 GS almost totally across the board, particularly in real-world gaming circumstances, and offers good performance in most new titles at 1024x768 with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled in particular, with all in-game settings cranked up more often than not.

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