It's little wonder that the company formerly known as ATI had a hit on its hands with its RV570 SKU. Commonly known as the Radeon X1950 Pro, it married high-end architecture with an attractive street price. Retail examples now ship at just over £100, including the dreaded VAT. Technically-speaking, RV570, as the name intimates, is from the R5xx family and packs in 36 pixel processors, 8 vertex shaders, a threaded architecture capable of dispatching 384 simultaneous threads, and, in most cases, 256MiB of GDDR3 memory that's attached via a 256-bit bus.



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