ATi Radeon HD 2950Pro Due in November

The card will be based on the RV670 chip, and is said to provide more powerful, faster graphics, while conserving power, as well as being price effective.

Ooh…not so sure the graphics card manufacturers know what price effectiveness is, but I’m willing to let them give it a try!

The RV670 chip will support DirectX 10.1 and shader model 4.1, and include Universal Video Decoding, PCI Express 2.0 compliance, with CrossFire support. The chip also features built-in HDMI, HDCP and 320 stream processors per GPU – the same amount found on the ATI R600 GPU as well as ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT/Pro graphics cards.

Two models will be available. The Gladiator model will use 512MB of DDR4 memory, while the Revival model will be using DDR3 memory in 256 or 512MB sizes, and slightly lower clock rates.

No samples are available for testing yet. Many will cheer for any ATi product, while others will boo and complain if the card doesn’t outperform the nVidia 8800 cards. The raw speed may not be equal, but the features of the card already outstrip the 8800 feature set.

Drivers will make the difference, hopefully this card will begin life with some great ones.

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[tags] ATi, AMD, nVidia, DirectX 10.1, RV670 GPU, Radeon HD 2950Pro, CrossFire [/tags]