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RADEON X700 features 8 pixel pipelines that is why it outperforms RADEON X1300 PRO, however, the latter also demonstrates pretty good results in the first two resolutions. At least, you can have enjoyable gaming experience in both of them. It is pretty surprising but GeForce 6600 falls behind the new ATI solution in the lowest resolution only, and in all other cases goes neck and neck with it/ it is hard to tell what is the reason for that: this graphics card works at only 300MHz chip and 250 (500) MHz memory frequencies, which is a way lower than the working speeds of the RADEON X1300 PRO. Moreover, GeForce 6600 features 8 pixel processors but only four rasterizers. Maybe the reasons are again originating from the not quite finalized ATI drivers. In eye candy mode RADEON X1300 PRO and RADEON X700 perform equally fast and even get beyond the acceptable minimum of 30-35fps.

The situation repeats at the Research level. Despite the Shader Model 3.0 support, RADEON X1300 PRO outperforms RADEON X700 only with enabled FSAA and anisotropic filtering having demonstrated excellent performance of 42fps.