Close encounter with ATi’s Radeon X800 GT

HKEPC’s Chinese got their hands on two ATi Radeon X800 GTs and put them to the test felt. The Radeon X800 GT is expected to be released next week to take on nVidia’s GeForce 6600 GT. HKEPC received a 256MB copy of HIS, with 980MHz GDDR3 memory, while Grandmars provided a 128MB copy with 700MHz GDDR memory. In addition to testing the performance of both cards, it was also looked at whether additional pipelines could be used, unfortunately without success.

Both cards were compared with a 128MB GeForce 6600 GT and a 128MB GeForce 6800 LE. After running several tests, it can be concluded that the HIS with 256MB is the fastest. But Grandmar’s version also does a little better than both cards from nVidia. Only in Aquamark and Doom 3 are both cards from nVidia faster, unless a resolution of 1600×1200 pixels in Doom 3 is chosen. So it seems that with the X800 GT, ATi finally has a card that can compete with nVidia’s 6600 GT and 6800 LE.