PowerColor Radeon 9800 Platinum Edition Video Card Review

Today we are looking at the PowerColor RADEON 9800 Platinum Edition. For those that don’t know, Tul owns the PowerColor brand and is the third largest provider of ATI-based graphic cards. The company makes very competitive products that are known all over the world. Although the RADEON 9800 has been around for some time now, this card is something totally different — and I do mean it.

. . .Overall I was pretty satisfied with PowerColor RADEON 9800 Platinum Edition. Maybe this isn’t a top of the line video card but for around $160 you get a very decent performance and a cool multiplayer game which retails at $39.99. As to memory architecture confusions, I think the box was appropriately labled as a 128-bit version. Looking back at some of the benchmarks, it’s pretty clear that this card can push a lot of pixels even with 9.6 GB’s of memory bandwidth and a slower clocked memory.

Those of you looking for a cheap video card upgrade, PowerColor 9800 Platinum Edition is definitely a great product to consider. Especially if you don’t own a 3.0+ GHz CPU which would definitely make you GPU limited.

Pros:
+ Fast considering its 128-bit memory architecture
+ RAM heatsinks
+ Free multiplayer game
+ Considerably cheap
Cons:
- Underclocked memory
- Poor overclocking results

With 8 rendering pixel pipelines and standard RADEON 9800 core clock, our PowerColor RADEON 9800 PE gets the rating of 8.5 (Very Good) out of 10 and the Bjorn3D Seal of Approval.

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