ATI Radeon X800 GT Preview

Today Guru of 3D brings you a review on the new Radeon x800 GT. The card my friends is an affordable, and considering the good framerates it can accomplishing in games, and one hell of an attractive piece of gaming gear. Strangely enough we find a little ogre that was manufactured under codename R480 and is actually built on the smaller 0.11 micron fabrication process. This card should be able to deliver what the x700 series couldn’t, a little more performance to compete with NVIDIA’s mighty fine GeForce 6600 GT.

So before we see the launch of the upcoming high-end R520 and R580 graphics cards ATI released something price competitive and definitely has got something there that can compete with the GeForce 6600 GT. In fact in some cases it can even get close to the 12 pipe GeForce 6800. Then again .. still no Shader Model 3 is present as this is once more a refresh product and although I’m not sure on this there’s likely no Crossfire option which is a very strong point for the 6600 GT SLI. I am getting a little puzzled though. At this point in time there are so many x800/x850 products out there that quite frankly the average consumer does not have a clue anymore what the difference is.

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