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Jetway Radeon X1950 Pro GDDR4 vs X1950 Pro GDDR3 Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by jmke @ 2007-06-03

Jetway has gone through the trouble to deviate from the ATI reference design and come up with a X1950 Pro video card packed with 512Mb GDDR4 memory chips. We compare its performance to the vanilla X1950 Pro with GDDR3 to see if there are any improvements performance wise.

Test Setup & Futuremark Benchmarks

Test Setup

Intel Test Setup
CPU	Intel Core 2 E6400 @ 2.8Ghz (from CSMSA)
Cooling	Coolermaster Hyper TX
Mainboard	Intel 975X Bad Axe (Modded by Piotke)
Memory	2 * 1Gb PC6400 OCZ
Other	Antec Performance One P182 Case Antec TruePower Trio! 650W Western Digital 74Gb Raptor SATA HDD

Synthetic Benchmarks

Let’s start out with some Futuremark benchmarks to estimate the performance difference in games:

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~1000 points in 3DMark2001SE, means that in old DX8 games you will see a slight benefit with the GDDR4 card.

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400~500 difference in 3DMark03/05 is close to negligible, but it’s something.

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The latest DX9 benchmark shows a ~250 score difference in favor of the X1950 Pro GDDR4 card. Time to find out what it means games ->

Comment from RichBa5tard @ 2007/06/04

Sad thing that the GDDR4 doesn't overclock... it might have been interesting if it was.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/06/04

pre-production sample might have something to do with that

Comment from Massman @ 2007/06/04

Have you tested overclocking with other tools than AtiTool? Maybe it had compability issues

Comment from jmke @ 2007/06/04

X1950 Pro doesn't play with many other tools it seems ATI Tray Tools same results, didn't try powerstrip

Comment from geoffrey @ 2007/06/06

Winclck?

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