• AMD Intros ATI Vista Ready Chips

    AMD Intros ATI Vista Ready Chips

    Bharti Adhikari, Oct 28, 2006 2100 hrs IST

    At an event in Mumbai after the completion of acquisition of ATI Technologies, AMD announced Vista-ready ATI Radeon graphic processors.

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At an event in Mumbai, soon after the completion of the acquisition of ATI Technologies, AMD announced a line of latest Vista-ready ATI Radeon graphic processors.

The new line of processors aimed at harnessing the richness of Windows Vista includes ATI Radeon X1950 XTX, X1950 PRO, and X1650 XT. According to the company, these processors will deliver the best performance, and the most stable Vista experience.

According to Chris Jones, corporate vice president - Windows Core OS Division, Microsoft, "Microsoft will deliver a series of graphics innovations with Windows Vista that provide a customer experience that is second to none. We could not have achieved this without our partnership with ATI. From day one, ATI has played a key role in helping us design and validate the new driver model at the heart of Windows Vista, and ATI has since developed robust and performant drivers that highlight the capabilities of our new operating system."

The ATI Radeon X1950 XTX supports up to 512 MB GDDR 4 memory that results in fast frame buffering. The architecture employs Shader Model 3.0 that enables simultaneous high dynamic range lighting effects and full screen anti-aliasing. The company recommends X1950 XTX card for Vista, as it provides full support for Vista's image-sensitive features, as also enhances gaming, digital photo, and multimedia applications.

The mid-range ATI Radeon X1950 Pro is the first graphic card to make use of new native CrossFire technology, simplifying the multi-GPU experience, eliminating the need for a branded CrossFire Edition card.

The Radeon X1950 Pro is also ATI's first 80nm graphics core, and features 36 pixel shaders, eight vertex shaders, and 12 texture processing units.

The two ATI Radeon cards in the 1950 series, X1950 XTX and X1950 Pro are available at suggested retail prices of approximately Rs 32,000 and Rs 17,900 respectively.

Whereas, the X1650 XT delivers 3D graphics, excellent performance, and other extensive features of a high end-graphic processor. It enables the system to handle the latest games, HDDV (High Defination Digtal Video). However, the new X1650 XT is expected to be available in November at a price of $149 (Rs 6,705) approximately.

Meanwhile, the company will continue to make chipsets for Intel, with motherboard chipsets and desktop graphics remaining available under the ATI brand, and mobility products like Mobility Radeon and Imageon sporting the AMD tag.

In addition, ATI will be working in tandem with several leading companies and academic institutions towards developing a new technology called "Stream Computing" that the company says possesses the potential to impact each and every sector of the market.

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(10) Comments
Paramvir
,patiala, on Apr 17, 2008 06:59 PM
superb
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szabi
,romania, on Nov 08, 2006 06:16 PM
dxf
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vijayshimla
,Shimla 171001, on Oct 29, 2006 09:06 AM
What AMD must do is, to introduce the mainstream X1650 Pro cards into India- these are with GDDR3 Memory and approach 7600GT performance. They have declared price of $ 99 (Rs. 4520 ) for these and if they wish to capture India market- they need X1650Pro-which will sell in tens of thousands- & not the expensive X1950,s which can only clock few hundreds sales only- strange that highly overpaid AMD/ATI executive can not even perceive the Indian Market Trends!! Incidentally folks these all are DX9 Cards- but Vista Compliant- Even Vista Aeroglass Does not necessarily require DX-10 compliance.
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rohith10
,Thiruvananthapuram, on Nov 03, 2006 11:58 PM
Don't feel offended, but have you been here, right here, in this world? It's no secret that the Radeon X1650 Pro barely stands up to a GeForce 7600GS, which was originally intended to compete with an X1600 Pro! So, if there's a card that's gonna sell by the truckloads, it's gonna be the 7600GS or even the 7600GT(which by now, would have dropped to around 9k). And next, to the author, there's no way the X1650 XT's gonna reach here for a price of $149 or Rs. 6750. First off, there's something called excise duty that's still in place for Graphic Cards, so even if they are priced at $149, by the time they get here, they'll surely cost around 9000. Next, the X1650 XT will retail for $200, according to TechSpot.
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ORB
,Hyderabad, on Nov 01, 2006 06:41 PM
how can x1950 xtx and Pro be half the cost different? these numbers are wrong!
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arc
,tvm, on Oct 30, 2006 09:21 PM
How the hell can a X1950XTX sell for only Rs.20k???? Techtree are you sure it isn't a typo or something???
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Lingam Samy Vel
,New Delhi, on Oct 29, 2006 01:40 PM
Kishor think before write
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yogesh
,delhi, on Oct 29, 2006 07:34 AM
are these dx10 compliant?
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Kishor
,Mumbai, on Oct 29, 2006 07:42 AM
If these r not dx10 compliant, they cant be called Vista Ready. LOL. think b4 u write
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Subhajit
,Kolkata, on Oct 29, 2006 08:37 AM
No these are not DX10 hardware. Vista does not require DX10 hardware for running Aero. It just needs DX9, SM2.0 support and considering there won't be many DX10 only games in foreseeable future and first generation DX10 cards would be really expensive and power hungry (and possibly buggy) I suggest you stay away from DX10 hardware for now until there is a refresh and a die shrink.
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