X600 XT vs. 5900 PCX : Mid-Range PCI Express Cards Compared

Today at GamePC, we’re looking at the two highest performance PCI Express graphics card solutions which are actually available on the market, ATI’s X600 XT PCIe and nVidia’s PCX 5900. Both of these cards are retailing in the $250 range, and have DirectX 9.0 support, and should be able to play modern games at decent frame rates. Which is the better solution of the two though?

…Despite all this, the GeForce PCX 5900 card performs quite well for a mid-range product, thanks to the fairly high-end NV35 graphics architecture which this card is based off of. This card bested the X600 XT PCIe in the majority of our benchmarks, and should be a much better performer in newer titles such as Doom3 compared to ATI’s chips. In addition, the card was very overclockable, as we were able to squeeze 15-20% higher performance levels with simple GPU and DDR clock speed boosts through Windows.

Price wise, we’ve found Asus’s X600 XT PCI Express card to be the more expensive of the two, while actually delivering lower performance levels across the board. Sure, Asus’s solution seems to be a bit more elegant, but it’s hard for us to justify the higher price tag on this fact alone. If it were up to us, the GeForce PCX 5900 would be the way to go of these two cards.

X600 XT vs. 5900 PCX : Mid-Range PCI Express Cards Compared @ GamePC