ATI's X1950 Pro to cost $199

Anything that cuts cost is wellcome

So AMD's current business strategy of "Make 'em cheaper to compete" is spreading to ATi already?

This seems too good to be true, this means that a X1900XTX would have to be even cheaper.

I know, but this means ATI will also have to cut the price of X1900 by half.

No, the 1900xtx is a vastly superior card.

Ha, thanks for pointing that out. Gotta love The Inquirer. Not that I'm saying they're always wrong. It's just that they're right sometimes because they publish anything they've heard, imagined, or heard that someone else imagined...so they're bound to be right occassionally




il just wait till the card comes out, them we'll all know

Don't worry, just because it came from the Inquirer doesn't mean that I won't hope it'll actually happen Because believe me, I'd loooove to see a $199 X1950 Pro.

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He is the Kurt Russel charachter in the movie Big Trouble in Little China.

Jeff Burton is NASCAR

well $200 for a this generation card that is suposed to be like the 7900gt ... i am in love... maybe i will be able to get it like next july lol for like $150..... if only

I'm more excited about the 256MB X1900XT, but that's just me. Anyone know how many pipelines/shaders the card will have??

Why the heck would they be calling it an X1950 if it's an RV5xx chip, not an R5xx?

This, then, would be the illusive X1700XT that we've heard about long ago, but never heard anything since: this is one of the first DECENT mid-range parts, that isn't just a hacked-off high-end chip, from ATi since perhaps the Radeon 9600...

From what I've heard previously, it appears that the X1700 (I REFUSE to call it "X1950pro" right now) is similar in arcitecture to the X1900, but with a reduced number of processing elements; it may either be 8/8/24 (ROP/TMU/PSU) or it may actually be 12/12/36 at this point. Also, it appears that THIS will be ATi's first 80nm part; like usual, they lay out their new processes and designs with a mid-range part first, like how the X700 was their first 110nm part, and the X1600 was the first assymetrical TMU/PSU part.

As for 1100MHz memory sounding "weak," keep in mind that this is 256-bit memory we're talking here; that means it utterly pulverizes the 1400MHz memory used in the GeForce 7600GT and Radeon X1600XT, and is close to the 1200MHz memory of the 7900GT.

This isn't a flagship card, folks; it's ATi finally getting a dedicated "sweet spot" card out to market. About time, as it's been around 3 years since they last did this; since then, nVidia's GeForce 6600GT and 7600GT cards have dominated this segment.