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Date 2007-02-28
Provider: MSI
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
MSI RX1950XT-VT2D256E-HD Videocard
Not everyone has 500$ to put on a videocard, but don't worry there's many good quality alternatives for them. The videocard manufacturers provide several different cards in various price classes. Tonight we will look at a card in the middle segment, which sells for around 300$ which is a more afordable price to some people. But how do they perform though? Can you get good speeds out of a more inexpensive card like this? Well we are going to test one of the latest cards from MSI, they sent us a sample of their middle class card the RX1950XT that in the papers look like a winner so stay tuned for todays review.
About MSI:
Founded in August 1986, MSI has built a business philosophy that stresses "Award-winning product quality and outstanding customer service." MSI specialises in the design and manufacture of mainboards, VGA cards, OSD and barbone systems. Entering a challenging industry environment, MSI are now ranked within Taiwan's Top Three and the world's Top Five mainboard manufacturers.
MSI employs an extensive and experienced research and development team. Currently, over 600 engineers make up this department. This team carries out its work with the latest research equipment, continuing to raise the bar on product quality and innovative product features.
To meet the rising needs of our global customers, MSI has been expanding aggressively, opening two new production facilities and an R&D lab in China. Yearly production of MSI mainboards is expected to rise to over 15.6 million units in 2003.
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MSI has had local representation in the UK since July 2001. Initially employing just a small number of people, it has since gone from strength to strength almost trebling in size. With an extensive Sales, Marketing and support team, a large UK warehouse and a repair centre. MSI offers a complete friendly service to its customers.
Specifications:
Memory interface: 256-bit
• Engine Clock Speed: 625MHz
• Memory Clock Speed: 1800MHz
• Pixel Shader Processor: 48
• Vertex Shader: 8
• Peak Pixel Fill Rate: 10.4 Gpixels/s
Features:
Shader Technology:
• Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware.
• Shader Model 3.0 vertex and pixel shader support:
- Full speed 32-bit floating point processing.
- High dynamic range rendering with floating point blending and anti-aliasing support.
- High performance dynamic branching and flow control.
• Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® 2.0.
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering:
• 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes:
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns,
and centroid sampling.
- New adaptive anti-aliasing mode.
- Temporal anti-aliasing.
- Lossless color compression (up to 6:1) at all resolutions, up to and including wide screen
HDTV.
• 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes:
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering.
- Adaptive algorithm with performance and quality options.
- Improved rendering with higher subpixel precision and LOD computation levels.
- New rotational high quality rendering mode.
3Dc+™ Advanced Texture Compression:
• High quality 4:1 compression for normal maps and luminance maps.
• Works with any single-channel or two-channel data format.
New Ring Bus Memory Controller:
• New Ring Bus Memory Controller
• Programmable arbitration logic maximizes memory efficiency, software upgradeable.
• New fully associative texture, color, and Z cache design.
• Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test.
• Fast Z-Buffer Clear.
• Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering.
• Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, up to and including widescreen HDTV.
Avivo™ Video and Display Engine:
• New advanced video capabilities, including high fidelity gamma, color correction and scaling.
• Dual independent display controllers that support true 30-bpp throughout the display pipe.
- Full symmetry on both heads.
- Each display controller supports display resolutions beyond 2560x1600.
• Advanced DVI capabilities, including 10-bit, 16-bit HDR output.
• YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays.
• Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time.
• MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration.
- DXVA support.
- Hardware motion compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion.
• All-format DTV/HDTV decoding.
• Adaptive per-pixel de-interlacing and frame rate conversion (temporal filtering).
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HDCP - High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection:
HDCP is a content protection specification to protect digital entertainment content across the DVI/HDMI interface. The HDCP provides a robust, cost-effective and transparent method for transmitting and receiving digital entertainment similar to DVI/HDMI-compliant digital displays. HDCP encrypts the data transmitted between the DVI/HDMI connector on the graphics adapter and the display. To provide this support, both the graphics adapter and the display need to have an HDCP transmitter and receiver respectively.
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The card comes packed in a really nice box with a handle, on the front you can see a picture of a face and on the back you can read some information in different languages. Also on the box they have indicated some features that this card holds.
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Inside the box you will find a manual, quick user guide, MSI Multimedia Beyond 3d cd, driver cd, and a full version of the popular game Heroes of Might and Magic V.
Cablewise there is also a few to choose from as you get two VGA to DVI adapters, Molex to PCI-E power cable, S-video cable, and two different output adapters.
Current Real Time Pricing
Closer look and Testing >>>>> Page 2
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