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PowerColor X800 GT Graphics Card Review: Worthy Competitor to NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (page 9)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

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

Far Cry

The PowerColor X800 GT boasts a high pixel shader performance and leaves the RADEON X700 PRO quite far behind in resolutions above 1024x768. The PowerColor is in between the GeForce 6600 GT and GeForce 6800 there. It looks even better in the “eye candy” mode, outperforming the GeForce 6800 in high resolutions and being perfectly unrivalled at the overclocked frequencies.

The conditions of the Research scene are less favourable for the PowerColor X800 GT than those of the Pier map: it is about 13-15% behind the GeForce 6600 GT in the “pure speed” mode. When overclocked, it makes a step up to the level of the GeForce 6800, but not higher. Our turning on full-screen antialiasing allows the PowerColor X800 GT to flaunt its wide, 256-bit memory bus and to beat the GeForce 6800 in 1600x1200 even at the default frequencies.