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By: Rutledge

Rutledge — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:10:24 +0000

Furthermore, they neglected to consider the X1950XTX.

Then it all makes sense:

X1950 XTX
X1900 XTX

X1950 XT
X1900 XT

X1950 PRO (OR GT as some manufacturers name)
X1900 GT (OR PRO as some manufacturers name)

Clear enough?

By: shaneduce

shaneduce — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:45:22 +0000

I’m tired of spending as long as a week looking into video card spect’s trying to fing the best for the $. 99% of my friends think the name is tell’s you all you need to know. When realy Clock speed & amount/speed of memory is what realy counts not the name.

p.s. oh yea the benchmark of the video card and your favort game should count too.

By: Voltus

Voltus — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:51:18 +0000

I cant wait for the super-Extreme xxx edition Ice- cool water cooled super fast Xxxx19050000xtxxx super speed Fatality special limited print edition to hit the shelves!

By: jin choung

jin choung — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:08:21 +0000

THANK YOU!!! yeah, wtf is up with these crazy ass naming schemes?! why do we even need 4 fing digits?! aaaaaah!

By: Seb

Seb — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:48:29 +0000

“wouldn’t it be nice if at the very least video card manufacturers adopted a performance based naming scheme like the one CPU manufacturers used?”

Ha, CPU manufacturers don’t follow a standard either, try comparing an AMD to an Intel based only on the name…

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:29:59 +0000

personally I like the idea of going the way of cpu branding because at least with cpus you know what you’re getting – graphics cards are becoming rediculous (or rather, have been for quite a few years).

imho I’d like it to be like cars, you know what you’re getting and they just say this is a 99 buick, still a buick and everyone knows that and they know that the 99 one is better then the 1990 model.

so eg nvidia top card 07
but with one of their fancy names to make it sound better :)

By: Carl Nelson

Carl Nelson — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:55:22 +0000

Based on fillrate, it goes

x1900XTX
x1950XT
x1900XT
x1950 pro
x1900GT

But the x1950 XT has more memory bandwidth than the 1900 XTX thanks to its higher memory clock speed.

Not sure where the 1900 XL fits in.. I think it’s an OEM only part… So it’s probably still using RV3xx architecture ;)

By: Rutledge

Rutledge — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:49:59 +0000

If you’re looking to buy such a fancy card, I would hope you know your ass from your elbow anyway.

By: Bird

Bird — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:53:46 +0000

I would say:
x1900XTX
x1950XT
x1900XT
x1950pro
x1900XL
x1900GT