Right before the launch of the much-anticipated R520-series of GPUs, ATI's busy rolling out new SKUs of existing R4xx products. Barely a month have elapsed since the launch of the Radeon X800 GTO SKU. We took a look at SAPPHIRE and PowerColor versions, each equipped with 256MB of GDDR3 memory and both retailing at around the £110 mark.

The X800 GT 256MB part encroached on GeForce 6600 GT 128 pricing but, on balance, was faster in the majority of games we tested with. 8 rendering pipelines were run at 475MHz, and, crucially, a 256-bit memory interface provided nearly 32GB/s of bandwidth from GDDR3 DRAM devices run at 980MHz for both cards. The Radeon X800 GT 256MB was nothing more than a cut-down (in fragment processors, at least) version of GPUs higher up in the X8x0 range, and, by consequence, X800 GT cores were ones that failed to run with the requisite 12 or 16 pipelines demanded on X800/X850 models.. Learn more about this X80 GTO over at Hexus's full review..



Link: Hexus.net