PowerColor Radeon X1800 XT 512MB (PCIe) Review

The Radeon X1800 XT is no doubt a very fast card, even if it may have just lost the performance crown to the newer GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB. With a card like the Radeon X1800 XT, enabling anti-aliasing and high dynamic range rendering is no longer just an option; it is feasible for practically all the games that we tested. The official drivers have also improved the performance of the PowerColor Radeon X1800 XT when anti-aliasing was enabled, arguably the right approach to take for such high-end cards, when the frame rates without the eye candy options are already more than sufficient. Besides, there are few games that would tax this card at the typical settings.

Having just witnessed the true mettle of the Radeon X1800 XT 512MB with the official Catalyst 5.11 drivers in our benchmarks, the remaining and most crucial detail is its considerable price. For the PowerColor Radeon X1800 XT 512MB, it is available at a rather steep SG$1099. For that, you will get the second most powerful consumer graphics card now to play Doom 3 at more than a hundred frames or about sixty frames at the maximum graphics quality settings and eye candy options.

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