ATI has really been taking it on the nose lately with late release of their Cross-fire platform and the mixed results that is has received from the various sites that have reviewed it.  The one thing ATI has tried to do with some success is to make inroads into mid-priced range of video cards, we have seen cards like the X800GTO do quite well when compared to other card of similar speed offered by NVIDIA.

One thing that has also hurt the X1XXX series of cards is misinformation, for example the ATI X1600 was first introduced by ATI on October 5th, but it was never actually made available till the first part of November.  Now that they have reached the hands of the gamers results have been rather good with the X1600 Pro holding its own against the NVIDIA 6800GT.

While the X1600 may never be the ultimate gaming card it does offer the average gamer a very low cost means to play the majority of the games available today, albeit at reduced settings along with the one feature that NVIDIA can't offer and that is stellar playback of video.  That is made possible thanks to the Avivo decoding technology, which just so happens to feature H.264 support a very handy codec that allows to watch HD video on your PC.

The card we are reviewing today is from our friends at HIS or their official name Hightech Information System Ltd it's their Iceq IceQ X1600 Pro. So come on along as we take a look this card and see how well it performs.

RV530 90nm process Vertex and Pixel Shader 3.0 10bit Native Display Quality Dynamic Flow Control 128-bit FP32 Processing 1024 instruction slots Shaders 128-way Ultra-threaded dispatch processor 256-bit Ring Bus High Dymanic Range rendering All stage Trilinear (16X) Anisotropic Filtering Full (HQ) Anisotropic Filtering 12X Temporal Max. MSAA 6X Adaptive AA Parallax Occlusion Mapping 12-tap error-free Dynamic Soft Shadows RMX/RMC H.264 Accelerated DL-DVI CrossFire support DirectX® 9 and OpenGL® supported

 

HIS Iceq X1600 Pro Page 1 - Introduction and Features Page 2 - Specifications and Comparisons Page 3 - A Closer Look Page 4 - Avivo Explained Page 5 - Testing and Test Setup Page 6 - 2001SE - Doom 3 - Chronicles of Riddick Page 7 - Chronicle of Riddick - SpecViewPerf - Far Cry Page 8 - Counter Strike Source - Overclocking - Conclusion