[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“While NVIDIA has already introduced their G80 8800GTX, after
several delays the ATI/AMD camp still has not delivered their
next-generation graphics processor: the R600 GPU. While the R600
remains behind closed doors the X1950 remains the fastest Radeon
series available. Among the products in the X1950 family is the
X1950 CrossFire, X1950PRO, X1950XT, and X1950XTX. What we are
looking at today is the X1950PRO, which for this article is coming
from ASUS. The ASUS EAX1950PRO offers 256MB of GDDR3, HDCP support,
heatpipe-based GPU heatsink, and many more ASUS innovations.“While ATI had learned its lesson from the belated Radeon X1000
Linux support, the fglrx driver support for the X1950PRO was not
added in October or even November of this year, but the drivers
will finally be making their way out this month…”