DAAMIT is planning to launch a new Radeon card. It will call it the Radeon X1950 GT and it is aimed to continue the success of the Radeon X1950 PRO. The card is based on the RV570 LE chip and it will end up clocked at 500MHz core and 1200MHz memory. The card will end up equipped with 256MB GDDR3 memory. It is set to cost $169 but it could end up even cheaper. The card should be publicly available in early February and the final driver is expected any day now. The final samples became available earlier this month and this is also the card that supports cableless CrossFire. So, again drawing further on their future with the better version of CrossFire technology. - The Inquirer

ATI plans release Radeon X1950 GT in early February

With the upcoming Radeon X1950 GT and the cableless Crossfire ability, will bring CrossFire with two nice products to sub $300 market as ATI takes the fight to NVIDIA's GeForce 7900 GS and the SLI technology. The sources claim the GT is essentially an underclocked Radeon X1950 PRO. The GT is said to be derived from the 80nm RV570 core. Both GPU's have 36 pixel shaders, 12 pipelines, 8 vertex engines and internal CrossFire connector support. However, while the PRO's core is clocked at around 575MHz, the GT will run at 500MHz. The two parts' memory banks are clocked at 1.38GHz and 1.2GHz, respectively.