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PowerColor X850 XT and PowerColor X800XL Graphics Cards Review (page 16)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 03/29/2005 | 09:39 AM ]

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The graphics cards from PowerColor have excellent speeds in Colin McRae Rally 2005, because this auto simulator abounds in complex pixel shaders. Even at its default frequencies the PowerColor X800 XL easily outperforms the GeForce 6800 Ultra, not mentioning less powerful NVIDIA GeForce 6. As for the PowerColor X850 XT, its slightly faster than the RADEON X800 XT at the default frequencies and is a little ahead of the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition at the overclocked frequencies.

The PowerColor cards on RADEON X800XL and X850 XT look even more advantageous in the “eye candy” mode thanks to their advanced memory controller and the technologies for an efficient use of the available memory bandwidth.