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PowerColor X800 GT Graphics Card Review: Worthy Competitor to NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (page 24)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 09/30/2005 | 12:05 PM ]

Futuremark 3DMark05

3DMark05 has it in a different way, putting the PowerColor X800 GT right after the RADEON X800 XL. Why? This benchmark just uses complex pixel shaders and supports both Shader Model 3.0 and Shader Model 2.0b.

The PowerColor X800 GT outperforms both mainstream-class solutions from NVIDIA in low resolutions. In higher resolutions, however, the three cards have identical speeds. As for the “eye candy” mode, the PowerColor card behaves rather strangely. Instead of showing the advantages of its fast memory subsystem, it falls behind the GeForce 6600 GT! The gap of 3fps seems small, but it amounts to about 20% when the absolute frame rates are about 10-15fps. Unfortunately, we couldn’t continue this comparison since the GeForce 6800 and the GeForce 6600 GT have only 128MB of graphics memory onboard and thus do not support this test in resolutions above 1024x768 with enabled FSAA.