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A closer
look
Voiding the warranty and removing the heatsink revealed a small aluminum
heatsink with a bigger than normal fan.
ATI is using a 80mm x 80mm x
12mm fan to cool the video card. The fan is pretty quiet and does
a decent job. The card hovered around 40C ~ 50C throughout
testing, including being overclocked.
Under the heatsink sat the RV570 Chipset. This is the same GPU
that is used on the X1950Pro. In fact, the two cards are the same
with the X1950GT being clocked slightly lower.
| GPU |
RV570 |
| Clock Speed |
500MHz |
| Graphics memory
controller |
256-bit |
| Graphics memory clock speed |
1200MHz |
| Memory Bus peak bandwidth |
38.4GB/sec |
| Graphics memory size |
512MB |
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Pixel Shaders,
Pixel Processors |
| Shader Model |
3.0 |
| Number of Pixel Shader
Processors |
36 |
| Number of Texture Mapping
Units |
12 |
| Number of Raster Operator
Units |
12 |
| Number of Z Compare Units |
12 |
| Maximum level of Anisotropy |
16x |
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Vertex Shaders,
Vertex Processors |
| Shader Model |
3.0 |
| Number of Vertex Processors |
8 |
The memory that is used is
Qimonda GDDR3. If you want to know what all of the numbers in the part
number mean you can use this
memory decoder.
The main part that I'm concerned with are the -XP at the end.
Normally this signifies the speed of the memory. In this case, the
XP is "customer specific" and Qimonda would not tell me what the memory
was rated at. However, based on information on their website that
1.2GHz memory would be coming out in 2007 and since this memory is
clocked at 600MHz (1.2GHz DDR). You can bet that this memory is
pretty much running at its max.
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