“Well there you have it, the second revision of the X1900GT is in fact slower than the original. ATI did make an effort to cover up the weaker core of this second revision, which they did by using faster memory. However, the 63MHz slower core was not properly compensated for by the 120MHz faster memory, which resulted in any where from a 3~9% performance loss at 1600×1200. Some of you probably might not think much of this and while it’s not the end of the world, it is more the principal of the thing.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- eVGA 7950GX2 Gaming, Overclocking & Toasty @ BCCHardware
- XFX GeForce 7950 GT XXX Edition @ HEXUS
- NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT HDCP Compliant Preview @ MVKTech
- Inno3D GeForce 7950 GT 512MB Zalman Edition @ Guru of 3D
- NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 (G80): GPUs Re-architected for DirectX 10 @ AnandTech
- XFX 8800 GTS and 8800 GTX review @ DH
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX/.GTS Tech Report @ TechARP
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX @ TechARP
- XFX GeForce 8800 GTX and eVGA 8800 GTS GPU’s @ Legit Reviews
ATI Radeon X1900GT, Rev 1 versus Rev 2

ATI released a new revision of the X1900GT, something they have done for a lot of past cards as well. In this particular case, they lowered the core speed, while raising the memory’s. Legion Hardware puts the 2 cards head to head, and shows what you can expect to see because of this change.