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GeCube Radeon X1900 XT 512MB PCI-E Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 27 January 2006 |
TweakTown comes with a
review on the GeCube Radeon X1900
XT 512MB PCIe graphics card. While we have had the opportunity to have a
look at the Gigabyte Radeon
X1900 XTX yesterday which we tested in Taiwan, we haven't had a chance to look
at the little brother, the Radeon X1900 XT. Recently we have received our first
retail sample Radeon X1900 XT from GeCube and we are going to throw it through its passes to see
just what we think about it. GeCube have been following the same trend with boxes for quite
a while now. We find the ever popular Ruby on the front of the card in a funky
position along with our more basic specifications of the
card.
 GeCube Radeon X1900 XT 512MB PCI-E Review
Moving on to the more important side of things we have ourselves the new Radeon X1900 XT which really looks identical to the Radeon X1800XT. While the card does differ to our reference Radeon X1800 XT, the standard retail offerings seen from most companies have the same Ruby image on the heatsink. Looks wise everything about the card is very similar to the Radeon X1800 XT. The GeCube Radeon X1900 XT comes with a core and memory speed of 625MHz and 1.45GHz. The higher end XTX comes with a core speed of 650MHz and a slightly higher memory speed of 1.55GHz.
ATI's new Radeon X1900 XT is probably what the Radeon X1800 XT should have been. It would have been nice to have this card a few months earlier but we didn't. For people who want a new PCI Express graphics card, this is the card to get right now. It's cheaper then a GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB and performance should be similar to higher in places. GeCube as always have a lighter bundle but this helps keep the price lower with other competitors and give GeCube the edge over the other brands.
The best thing about the Radeon X1900 XT and XTX is that it's available now which is exactly what we want because ATI really did cop a lot of flack over their past few paper launches. The best thing NVIDIA did was launch the GeForce 7800 GTX aggressively because this has set the new trend for high end cards. We should see the Radeon X1900 CrossFire in the coming month and the new ATI motherboard in a similar time. Things are looking on the up and up for ATI but we do not doubt that NVIDIA are going to be aggressive with the GeForce 7900 (G71) at CeBIT in March.
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