Benchmarks X1950XTX leaked

DailyTech has received early benchmarks of ATI's upcoming Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire graphics cards. ATI's upcoming Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire is expected to make its debut on August 23rd. Specifications for the Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire are finalized with a 650 MHz core clock and 2 GHz effective memory clock. The core clock is the same as the already available Radeon X1900XTX, but the memory clock is boosted by 550 MHz. This time around the Radeon X1950XTX and X1950 CrossFire are equipped with 90nm Samsung GDDR4 memory.

The benchmarks compare ATI's Radeon X1950XT in CrossFire against NVIDIA's Quad SLI. The test setup used for NVIDIA's Quad SLI is a Dell XPS 700 system equipped with an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, 1GB of DDR2-800 memory and two GeForce 7950GX2 graphics cards for four total GPUs. The ATI CrossFire test system is identical with the Quad SLI system except the nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition motherboard was swapped out for an early Radeon Xpress 3200 (RD600) motherboard and two ATI Radeon X1950XTX/CrossFire graphics cards.

The benchmarks show that a Crossfire setup of two X1950XTX cards better a Quad SLI setup in quite a few occasions, only when resolutions of 2560 x 1600 are used the difference gets less obvious. The only benchmark where nVidia had a clear advantage was in Doom3.

The early benchmarks show ATI's X1950XTX in CrossFire bettering a nVidia SLI setup, but it has to be noted that a maximum of 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering was used, so it doesn't really show the true performance of NVIDIA's Quad SLI that can render higher levels of antialiasing without a heave drop in framerates.

ATI's X1950 XTX card