If you are on the lookout for high performance AGP cards, you are in luck. We rounded up seven ATI RADEON X800 PRO cards from ABIT, Connect3D, GeCube, Gigabyte, HIS, PowerColor and Sapphire for a comprehensive shootout.
Slightly more than a half a year after its launch, the ATI RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition is still the highest performing product on the AGP front. Supporting this statement is numerous media reports all around the world, including our own article where we conferred it the Winner award of the high-end VPU/GPU shootout. Although every ATI graphics card vendor has a model based on this VPU, limited quantity and availability have made it a craving product for the ardent enthusiasts with deep pockets. Today the situation has improved, but it is still not available in quantities like its sibling. Right from the start, the RADEON X800 PRO was a much more widely distributed SKU and is easily available from all your favorite vendors anytime off the shelf. Equipped with 256MB DDR3 frame buffer, a 256-bit memory interface, 12 rendering pipelines, six geometry engines, the RADEON X800 PRO is the foremost high-end AGP product shipping in mass volume.
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Hardwarezone
Feb 11, 2005, 06:09 PM
