Palit X1950Pro Super

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Palit X1950Pro Super

Sudeep Naik, Apr 13, 2007 1600 hrs IST

It's bright red, big and fat. No, it's not Rudolf's nose we're talking about. Palit's 512MB Graphic Card with a humungous HSF is here to entertain you.

Good performance, 512 MB memory, Good HSF, Well priced.

Dual-slot design, Poor over-clocker.

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With prices of graphic cards melting like our stock market (in the not-so-distant past), many of the alleged high end cards have become quite cheap considering the performance they offer. Also note that Nvidia's G80 or the GeForce 8 series of cards have taken the term 'high-end' to a different level altogether. Maybe that's one of the contributing factors for the prices of other makes to crash. But hey, I'm not complaining!

In fact, today we review a card that till a few days back was only a dream for many gamers, the X1950Pro with an extra 256 MB of memory. Yes, it's a 512 MB card. Read on to know more.

Specifications

The Card
Bright red, big and fat. Yes, that's exactly how the card looks.

The Palit X1950Pro Super uses the 90nm RV570 core, boasts of 36 pixel shaders and 8 vertex shaders. It has 512 MB GDDR3 and with a 256-bit memory bus it gives a maximum throughput of 44.16 GBps.

The red PCB with a humungous HSF looks intimidating. The cooling system uses an aluminum radiator (painted red) and a big plastic fan which is covered in a plastic canopy. Even though the cooler seems to be medieval, it does the job well and doesn't make noise, even under high load.

The core is clocked at 575 MHz while the memory runs at 1380 MHz. The card has a dual-slot design and requires extra power.

It has a DVI-D, D-Sub (VGA) and a S-Video connector and also features Avivo for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 decoding and transcoding, support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0.

Bundle
Palit X1950Pro Super graphic card
DVI-VGA Adapter
HDTV-out Adapter
S-Video Cable
SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars game DVD
Cyberlink PowerDVD
Driver CD
User Manual (Printed)

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(18) Comments

chris

,missouri, on Feb 23, 2008 06:45 AM

if you can Please tell me how many stream processors,"Pipelines" this video card has i am thinking of buyin it

zakir

,Mumbai, on Apr 18, 2007 09:37 AM

what is the cost of it and its used or new

bhargav

,hyd, on May 28, 2007 04:58 PM

how much soes it cost?

ashwani

,jaipur, on May 26, 2007 11:15 PM

Not used yet but look wise good,i mean sink fan shows the high speed graphic card

sagar

,bangalore, on Apr 25, 2007 02:23 PM

well it'? good............

vijayshimla

,Shimla 171001, on Apr 13, 2007 07:27 PM

With eminent advent of DX-10 cards- every mfr is throwing their excess inventory of DX-9 cards at cut prices. Consumer needs to be very wary of purchase of exp. cards now- because DX-10 games will need DX-10 Cards !! & they are going to hit the market with 8600, 8500 series soon.

Mohit

,Pune, on Apr 14, 2007 07:23 AM

You dont NEED a dx10 graphic card to run a dx10 game. Something of the processing power of an x1950pro will run all these dx10 games without a hitch.

vijayshimla

,Shimla 171001, on Apr 14, 2007 10:12 AM

directx 10 has program volumetric shaders, program high defition so if you have a directx10 graphic card and a directx 10 game you can benifit form this, however if you don't and you have a directx 9 card then you can still play directx 10 games but you will not be able to have volumetric shaders, program high defition enabled.

sidk

,Ghaziabad, on Apr 14, 2007 10:32 AM

Whose reply was that,vijayshimla? Weren't you the one who taught me not to copy other people things, eh?

Me !

,From my Rig, on Apr 21, 2007 01:54 AM

Why are you cribbing about volumetric shaders etc. Buy a Playstation 3 if you want raw game processing power. Otherwise this sounds like two nerds talking about things the whole world wouldn't give a phuk about !!

Anonymous

,From my Rig, on Apr 21, 2007 01:38 AM

As if calling something "B" instead of "A" makes such a difference. OS , Games , Utilities , Music , Video ... and "you" make the whole rig. And what "you" need is a machine which complements your need. To that end graphics cards are peripherals. Because not everyone on this earth likes the "big boys" and not everyone is hung on the latest phart from Microsoft. Lemme give you some advice ... sit and meditate and find out what you want to do in life ... you will find your "rig" and your OS and most importantly you will find there is no need for such inane comments ... comprende dude ?

krishnaraja

,chennai,india, on Apr 19, 2007 09:23 PM

is better then other card

muzux2

,Srinagar, on Apr 18, 2007 12:35 PM

on which Catalyst display driver Palit X1950 was tested....not given if they tested driver from it's CD, then the driver must b Catalyst 6.10..bad upto catalyst 7.3 there is performance gain of 25%-30%...not a good test setup

Harish

,bangalore, on Apr 17, 2007 04:56 PM

Hey fellas and Techtree, I have something to say. The new Microsoft OS, Vista, needs a decent dx9 graphic accelarator to run in its full glory. Which means a graphics card is no longer a peripheral. Not that it was since the last few years considering the stunning leaps in technology, but now that Big Brother recommends them, Graphic accelarators have officially become an essential component of the rig to run a state-of-the-art OS, bells, whistles and all. And lets face it, how many of us are really willing to settle for a basic version of Vista? We want the frills, right? :D So, maybe its time we stopped referring to graphic accelarators as peripherals, eh Techtree? Or are you gonna wait till the foreign websites do it so you can follow the lead? Or until all Indian PCs have Vista Ultimate installed? Cuz thats gonna take a while. The torrent sites don't have fully functional pirated versions of Vista Ultimate yet. :D Regards.

Rockfell

,gurgoan, on Apr 14, 2007 01:39 AM

Good point Vijay Ji

Gdn | TD

,Chennai, on Apr 14, 2007 12:47 AM

Good point vijay.. V indeed need to remember the DX10 factor..

!!!

,!, on Apr 13, 2007 06:25 PM

Something is wrong with F.E.A.R benches,x1650 beating everything above it??

Grawp

,The Dark Forest, on Apr 13, 2007 05:33 PM

In the specification chart the Fab process is 80nm and in the article it is 90nm ??? Which is the real one???

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