In our opinion, the current round of war between the red and green teams officially kicked off when ATI released their 5.11 catalyst driver- giving a nice boost in performance to the X1800XT, which, at its launch, didn’t really shake any ground up. The 5.11 Catalyst drivers basically allowed the X1800XT to surpass 7800GTX and nVidia fired back by releasing the 7800GTX-512 which pretty much wiped the slate clean. However, these 512 cards are still extremely expensive and hard to find- nVidia almost pulled a paper launch..



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