Tuesday, January 9th 2007
SAPPHIRE X1950 Pro Dual - Two GPUs on a Single Card
Sapphire Technology showed for the first time its SAPPHIRE X1950 PRO DUAL graphics card at this year's CES. The SAPPHIRE X1950 PRO DUAL brings two X1950 Pro GPUs on a single card. It performs as fast as the ATI CrossFire dual GPU systems, but the difference lies in that the card connects via a single PCI-Express x16 slot, bringing DUAL GPU performance to mainboards with only one PCI-Express connector. The SAPPHIRE X1950 PRO DUAL features 1GB GDDR3 memory with both cores operating at clock speeds of 580MHz and memory frequences of 1400MHz. The SAPPHIRE X1950 PRO series natively supports HDCP and features the highly acclaimed ATI Avivo High Definition video and display technology.
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35 Comments on SAPPHIRE X1950 Pro Dual - Two GPUs on a Single Card
How knows you might have to run it in DX9 mode just to get good FPS with any card. That would be great the first DX10 game only playable in DX9:laugh:
I love when s**t like that happens. As long as I don't have a R600, if I do I'll be pissed:mad:
"DirectX 10 adds an extra type of shader into the mix, the geometry shader. This type of shader has the ability to create extra triangles if requested to do so. One of the many benefits of this type of shader would be to create displacement mapping (a way to make textures and scenes look more detailed by adding the illusion of height to an otherwise flat texture)."
Take a look at the 10th pic down. Look familier? Anyone who ran ATI's Toyshop demo knows that scene. They will also know that that's a dx9 demo. Who they kidding?
I think it was made before the 8800's were out. Maybe they were using some sort of prototype to test it. At E3 they were playing it with amazing quality. No lag. And that was WAY before 8800's. So I'm guessing that may be what DX9 looks like...