What Radeon video card is similar to 6800GT (1 Viewer)

[SashatheMan]

as the title states. i just wanna comapre the two makers. and the cards they have.

 

[0o0]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2299&p=3

check that out sasha

 

[insert-username]

Off the top of my head, the X800 XL.


I_F

 

[SashatheMan]

i cant find any x800 xl in online shops. how much are they?

 

[SashatheMan]

how does a x800 GTO compare to the x800 XL? i seen those around

 

[AntiHyper]

x800 GTO is somewhat the "economy-class" of the x800s. They're cheaper purely because they're using the left-overs (lower quality) of the x850 or x800 xl chips.

When distributed, the firmware can still be flashed to work as a x800 xl (if the flash is available). It's easily overclockable to an extent of similar performance to the x800 xl.

Get your hands on a GTO, they're significantly cheaper than the XL. Slight tweaking of GTO's performance can be done to match that of XL.

To have a $400 card and not be able to play the latest games at 1600 x 1200 at the highest detail settings is unacceptable in our opinion.

Geez OKAY, most people's monitors can only support up to 1280x1024!

 

[SashatheMan]

hmm, i never overclocked. i gueess i should start.

 

[insert-username]

To have a $400 card and not be able to play the latest games at 1600 x 1200 at the highest detail settings is unacceptable in our opinion.

Geez OKAY, most people's monitors can only support up to 1280x1024!

That's American dollars. $US400 video card for us is about $A700-$A800 dollars - with that kind of budget, you'd WANT to be able to afford a 1600x1200 screen or else it's a waste of cash.


I_F

 

[Minai]

That's American dollars. $US400 video card for us is about $A700-$A800 dollars - with that kind of budget, you'd WANT to be able to afford a 1600x1200 screen or else it's a waste of cash.


I_F

Exactly, if you're max resolution was 1280, then you'd just go for, say a 7800GT instead of a GTX, since you can max everything on that res and have smooth gameplay

 

[SashatheMan]

i found this. they are comparing the x800 GTO with 6800. and the article sais it can be overclocked very well.

 

[insert-username]

i found this. they are comparing the x800 GTO with 6800. and the article sais it can be overclocked very well.

That's an incorrect comparison, since it's using the ordinary 6800 card, not the 6800 GT as you wanted to compare. I believe the GT is significantly faster than the X800GTO.


I_F

 

[Collin]

Originally the X800PRO was the competitor to the 6800GT. I bought my X800XT in June 04', and I remember all the ATI vs. nVidia fanboys dishing it out against each other around those two cards. Although the XT faught very well against the Ultra, ATi got sliced with the PRO due to the GT retaining the Ultra's 16 pipeline architecture whilst the PROs were cut down to 12. If you read all the XT/PRO/Ultra/GT reviews and benchies around the time, you'd notice that the PRO was always the odd one out.

To have a $400 card and not be able to play the latest games at 1600 x 1200 at the highest detail settings is unacceptable in our opinion.

What a load of crap, I'd need a SLi GTX config to be able to run F.E.A.R @ 16*12, 4xTSAA/6xAF, all settings max @ GOOD frames. $US400 = ~AU$560; if those crazy authors are suggesting I can get such a dual card combo for that price, then it's gotta be the best kept secret in town.

 

[Collin]

Woah, check out the 6800GS!

 

[SashatheMan]

i decided to get a x800GTO instead. i figured ide save a hell lot of money for a nearly similar performance

 

[insert-username]

What a load of crap, I'd need a SLi GTX config to be able to run F.E.A.R @ 16*12, 4xTSAA/6xAF, all settings max @ GOOD frames. $US400 = ~AU$560; if those crazy authors are suggesting I can get such a dual card combo for that price, then it's gotta be the best kept secret in town.

The article is dated December 2004. The games tested there are the latest games available at that time. Then F.E.A.R. came out and ruined all the rules.


I_F

 

[Collin]

Well, if it was 04'.. I'll replace F.E.A.R with Doom 3. US$400 couldn't get ya an Ultra obviously and the GTs sure couldn't run Doom 3 @ 16*12/Ultra at good frames.

 

[AsyLum]

Well, if it was 04'.. I'll replace F.E.A.R with Doom 3. US$400 couldn't get ya an Ultra obviously and the GTs sure couldn't run Doom 3 @ 16*12/Ultra at good frames.

Sure they could! If you were a fish