Sapphire Announces Radeon X1950 Pro AGP

[VulgarHandle]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5154

Originally Posted by DailyTech

As far as specifications go the Radeon X1950 Pro GPU has the same 36 pixel shaders with eight vertex shaders and 12 pixel pipelines as the PCIe counterpart. Additionally the Sapphire X1950 Pro AGP card has been slightly beefed up. Instead of the typical 256MB of video memory Sapphire has equipped its X1950 Pro AGP with 512MB of GDDR3. The memory is clocked at 700 MHz instead of the default 690 MHz. The core clock receives a small little bump to 580 MHz over the default 575 MHz as well.

[charlie]

wow... agp just refuses to die

[Dimitriman]

Great news indeed, and a very very smart move by Sapphire, single handedly putting out the fastest ATI AGP card on the market.

[milkcafe]

nowdays

the AGP users are always confused

1.long waitng for a low performance/cost card
(X1900XT 256MB is defintely better for that price)

2.no high-end

3.and they have to pay more money for the extra chip on the card

[-Acid-]

i am getting one of those for my dothan rig

[Baenwort]

The question is how will these do for folding? I can for see a big boost in stats if we can all convert our old tired AGP rigs into burning fast GPU folders.

[VulgarHandle]

Originally Posted by Baenwort

The question is how will these do for folding? I can for see a big boost in stats if we can all convert our old tired AGP rigs into burning fast GPU folders.

heh, thinkin' man, i like

[Revv23]

hmm can we fold on gpu's now?

because they have been teasing that for almost a year now with no news.

[topaimz]

neet, I can get one of these for my old rig when prices go down.

lols, than I can open up a little net cafe at my own house with
5 pcs and 2 laptops :P

[madgravity34]

I might look into this to replace my aging 6800gt in my lil bro's pc.

[Kanavit]

the x1950 pro agp looks to be better than the 7800 GS agp counter part. this might be a good solution for my old s939 8x agp system.