AMD has rolled out the
ATI Radeon X1050. It is an low level graphics chip intended for board makers to offer as a minimum-specification Windows Vista Aero Glass-friendly upgrade.
The X1050 contains 16
pixel shaders in four pipelines and fed by a pair of
vertex shaders. It's a
PCI Express part, but the connection of a bridge chip makes
AGP boards a possibility too. Three configurations are on offer, respectively supporting 128MB of
DDR, 128MB of
DDR 2 and 256MB of
DDR 2 video memory across.
Early supporters of the X1050 include
GeCube and
Tul's PowerColor brand.
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