ATI Radeon X1000 Series
Radeon X1600 Family
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Architecture
Radeon X1600 family is the new mid-range family from ATI, but it will only arrive the market on the last day of November – so you won’t see these video card before december!
Radeon X1600 family architecture can be seen in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Radeon X1600 family architecture.
In summary it has:
- 12 pixel shaders processors;
- 5 vertex shaders processors;
- 4 texture units;
- 4 render back-end units;
- 8 z compare units.
Like Radeon X1800, Radeon X1600 series also uses the new ring bus memory controller. However, instead of using two 256-bit datapaths like on Radeon X1800 series, it uses two 128-bit datapaths.
Models
Two Radeon X1600 models were announced: Radeon X1600 XT and Radeon X1600 Pro. The main specifications for these two chips you can check in the table below.
Figure 7: Radeon X1600 XT.
| Model | Clock | Memory Clock | Suggested Price | Availability |
| Radeon X1600 XT | 590 MHz | 1.38 GHz | USD 199 (128 MB) and USD 249 (256 MB) | Nov 30th, 2005 |
| Radeon X1600 Pro | 500 MHz | 780 MHz | USD 149 (128 MB) and USD 199 (256 MB) | Nov 30th, 2005 |
