On the red camp, there's also a mid range ATi card meant for PCI Express, but ported to the AGP platform. Found at Bell Systems, the Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro 256MB AGP is something that might interest mid range buyers who wants the latest feature set like SM3.0 on an ATi card. Going for $ 269, the price might a little on the higher side when compared against NVIDIA solutions of the same price. But however, being an ATi cards, some might objectively like it's color reproduction or even it's 256MB worth of video memory.

The white packaging box of the Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro 256MB AGP.

This is how the Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro 256MB AGP looks like from top down.

Due to the lower power output from the AGP slot, a 4 pin floppy power connector is required on this card.

This is how the back of the card looks like. The pinkish pads is where the Rialto bridge chip lies. All X1600 Pro cores are native PCI Express, thus requiring such a bridge chip to convert AGP signals to PCI Express signals which the core could understand.

The memory chips found on the card. 8 of these Hynix 2.5ns DDR2 memory modules are present on the board, giving 128bit memory bandwidth.

The cooling solution on the card is rather mediocre, with fat aluminum fins making the bulk of the heatsink. Also, thick thermal pads cover the memory modules, but only on one side of the card.

The rear I/O connectors consists of a VGA output, a TV Out connector and a DVI Output.