Tul introduces PowerColor X1900 GT graphics card
Press release, May 5; Eric Mah, DIGITIMES [Monday 8 May 2006] 
Tul on May 5 launched the PowerColor X1900 GT graphics card, the latest addition to its flagship X1900 series.
The X1900 GT is an enthusiast graphics card for the price-conscious with a suggested retail price of US$349, the lowest price in the X1900 series to date, according to the company.
The card uses the ATI Radeon R580 core, with a clock speed of 575MHz, 1.2GHz memory clock and 256MB of DDR3. The 36 pixel shader processors and 8 vertex shaders support today’s latest games, according to the company.
The PowerColor X1900 GT is CrossFire ready and supports DirectX 9c, Open GL 2.0 and Shader Model 3.0, enabling anti-aliasing with HDR, said the company. An Avivo engine also ensures accelerated video decode and encode of the latest video formats and support for High-Definition (HD) videos, the graphics card maker noted.
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PowerColor X1900 GT specifications | |
Item |
Details | |
Core clock speed |
575MHz | |
Memory speed |
1.2GHz | |
Memory |
256MB DDR3 | |
Memory interface |
256-bit | |
Pixel shader processor |
36 | |
Vertex shader |
8 | |
VGA output |
By DVI to VGA converter | |
TV output |
S-Video | |
DVI-I |
DVI X 2 | |
VIVO (Video In/Video Out) |
Yes | |
H.264 Support |
Yes | |
Geometry transform rate (vertices/sec) |
1.15 billion | |
Memory bandwidth |
38.4GB/sec | |
Pixel fill rate |
6.9 billion/sec | |
Photo |
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Source: Company, compiled by DigiTimes.com, May 2006
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