x1950 cards are really just a preliminary testing ground to make sure ATI has GDDR4 working before that start shipping it with r600 based cores. I mean, what did you expect? The only difference between the 1900 and 1950 is a 400MHz memory speed difference and even then you have two different memory interfaces with supposedly GDDR4 using crap latencies on the 1950 from what I have read
You also have to consider that the 1900/1950 is going HDR and AA at the same time whereas the Geforce7s are only doing HDR OR AA except in Source based games. I don't know if they took this into consideration in the benchmarks as I haven't read them, but if infact the 1950 is running both HDR and AA that's going to kill framerates as AA is a frame killer, but it's going to look better(graphically) as a result
I still also like how ATI built the r580 core and PCB to be able to utilitize GDDR4 in the future. I also still prefer ATIs unified shader approach as I suspect that is going to become an edge in the future
Either way, both 7950 and 1950 are overpriced pieces of garbage, 7950 in particular
You also have to consider that the 1900/1950 is going HDR and AA at the same time whereas the Geforce7s are only doing HDR OR AA except in Source based games. I don't know if they took this into consideration in the benchmarks as I haven't read them, but if infact the 1950 is running both HDR and AA that's going to kill framerates as AA is a frame killer, but it's going to look better(graphically) as a result
I still also like how ATI built the r580 core and PCB to be able to utilitize GDDR4 in the future. I also still prefer ATIs unified shader approach as I suspect that is going to become an edge in the future
Either way, both 7950 and 1950 are overpriced pieces of garbage, 7950 in particular