[OCWORKBENCH.COM] Powercolor X190GT Review Intro 1/4

The X1900 GT brings forth an enthusiast graphic card for the price-conscious with a suggest retail price of USD299; by far the lowest of any X1900 cards offered to date. The single-slot monster uses the ATI Radeon R580 core, with clock speed of 575MHz , 1.2 GHz memory clock and 256MB of DDR3. The 36 pixel shader processors and 8 vertex shaders easily delivers eye-watering visuals for today’s latest games.

As with the entire X1K series, PowerColor X1900 GT is CrossFire™ ready and supports DirectX 9c, Open GL 2.0 and Shader Model 3.0; enabling anti-aliasing with HDR. Avivo engine also ensures accelerated video decode and encode of the latest video formats and support for High-Definition (HD) videos. How will it take on the Nvidia's 7900GT?

Product Name	X1900 Crossfire	X1900XTX	X1900XT	X1900GT
Core Speed	625MHz	650MHz	625MHz	575MHz
Memory Speed	1.45GHz	1.55GHz	1.45GHz	1.2GHz
Memory Size	512MB DDR3	512MB DDR3	512MB DDR3	256MB DDR3
Memory interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Pixel Shader Processor	48	48	48	36
Vertex Shader	8	8	8	8

VGA Output	-	By DVI to VGA converter	By DVI to VGA converter	By DVI to VGA converter
TV Output	-	S-Video	S-Video	S-Video
DVI-I	DVI-I x 1, VHDCI x 1	DVI X 2	DVI X 2	DVI X 2
VIVO (Video In/Video Out)	-	YES	YES	YES
H.264 Support	YES	YES	YES	YES

Geometry Transform Rate (vertices/sec)	1.25 Billion	1.3 Billion	1.25 Billion	1.15 Billion
Memory Bandwidth	46.4GB/sec	49.6GB/sec	46.4GB/sec	38.4GB/sec
Pixel Fill Rate	10 Billion/sec	10.4 Billion/sec	10 Billion/sec	6.9 Billion/sec