05-May-04, 11:49 AM
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| |  Affiliate Reviews: GPU's
Abit Radeon 9800XT @ Envy News  | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | | "With the impending release of NVIDIA's 6800-series and ATI's Radeon X family of next-generation cards, each passing day enables us to get cards like ABIT's Radeon 9800XT at bargain prices. Sure, it's still hundreds of dollars, but the performance one receives is excellent bang for the buck. Solid value at a solid price, and with ABIT you get solid support and a solid investment.
Instead of pitting this excellent card against another Radeon 9800 Pro or similar
9800XT, we targetted its review at those who still clutch their Radeon 9700 Pro and
9500 modded cards. Skipping a few generations of new product launches does have its
advantages, as this review will attest to. " | |  | |  | | ATI's Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition GPU @ HEXUS | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | There's nothing like giving the game away on the first page, but there's also no point beating around the bush. X800 XT is all kinds of fast, arriving at that speed using roughly the same methods as 6800 Ultra. It's a GPU of epic performance proportions. Consumer graphics is about to get one hell of a kick up the arse when both GPUs hit retail. | | | | | | | ATi's Radeon X800 XT, the new King of the Hill? | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | Just two short weeks ago Nvidia launched their new GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card along with their NV4x architecture. Today ATi introduces their X800 family of graphics cards based on the R420 architecture. Expectations for both new architectures were high and NvidiaÂ’s GeForce 6800 Ultra certainly did deliver, offering twice the performance of the then fastest shipping graphics accelerator, ATiÂ’s Radeon 9800 XT. Obviously ATi is hell bent on getting the title back from Nvidia and to, once again, proclaim itself the king of 3D graphics. In the next few pages weÂ’ll explore what ATiÂ’s latest has to offer and whether thatÂ’s enough to dethrone the GeForce 6800 Ultra. | | | | | | | ATI X800 XT-PE / Pro and new NV40 'Ultra Extreme' and 'GT' Models | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | "The combination of resolution and eye candy used in this test is enough
to bring almost any current system to its knees. The ATI cards seem to relish
this workload as they manage a significant performance advantage over the
NVIDIA cards. It is interesting to note that ATI's $399MSRP Radeon X800 Pro is
easily outpacing NVIDIA's flagship GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme." | | | | | | | Radeon X800 XT or GeForce 6800 Ultra? Tough choice! | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | So at the end of the day we have the Radeon X800 XT, a card thatÂ’s able to perform right out of the box, which has drivers that are mature enough to soon receive a WHQL certification soon but also has a performance level thatÂ’s basically set in stone. ATi has been working on similar drivers for the past two years, so donÂ’t expect big leaps in performance, a marginal increase is about the best you can expect. And then thereÂ’s the GeForce 6800 Ultra, with release candidate drivers at best, drivers that show promise, even though theyÂ’re still an early build. But the potential is there to boost performance significantly, offering performance levels far beyond what weÂ’ve seen up till now. | | | | | | | |
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