Eight-Way GeForce FX 5900XT Shootout

To ease your burden in selecting the right candidate, we gathered a large variety of branded cards from various vendors - a total of eight GeForce FX 5900XT graphics cards from manufacturers like Albatron, AOpen, Chaintech, Gainward, Gigabyte, Leadtek, MSI and PixelView.

..Now that we’ve seen the performance and features of each contenders, we’ll combine all these different facets and rate them here fairly. If there’s one thing common that we should highlight across all graphics cards, it is most definitely their stock performance. Those of you who wish to gain more performance out of their graphics cards legally, MSI’s FX5900 XT-VTD128 is the only model among the eight contestants in this shootout that lets you do that. Of course if one doesn’t mind going round the back door and flinging warranty concerns out of thought, Albatron’s FX5900XT clearly stood out among the competition. Need whisper-quiet operation? Then MSI and Leadtek graphics cards are your ticket to silence. Users who are most frantic about system temperature should strongly consider AOpen’s Aeolus FX5900XT-DV128 as it operated markedly cooler than any other in this shootout.

Eight-Way GeForce FX 5900XT Shootout @ Hardware Zone