GPU manufacturers typically like to refresh product lineups in the fall of each year in time for the holiday season. This year ATI is refreshing its high-end, midrange and value lineups in time for the Christmas purchase rush. All of ATI's products are getting revised with this launch including the high-end X1900, midrange X1600 and value oriented X1300 series of graphics processing units.

ATI's approach this year is similar to previous fall refresh approaches. The new high end offering for the holiday seasoning arrives in the form of ATI's Radeon X1950XTX while a new entry-level performance offering arrives in the form of the slightly new Radeon X1900XT 256MB. In today's article we'll be evaluating ATI's latest Radeon X1950XTX and X1900XT 256MB in single card performance. How much of an improvement is the X1950XTX? How much performance is lost with the X1900XT 256MB? And how well does it compare to NVIDIA's offerings? Join us as we explore ATI's two new graphics cards.