ATI RADEON X1800 XT and XL Performance: Crushing NVIDIA's 7800?

Lakevren · Oct 9, 2005, 03:35 AM

Earlier this year NVIDIA Corp. managed to take the market of high-end graphics cards by storm with its GeForce 7800 GTX and GT products. This moment, ATI Technologies attempts to fight back the lost positions with its RADEON X1800 XT and XL models that also feature impressive horsepower. Can ATI take revenge now? We will find out as we take a look at performance in more than 20 benchmarks that represent variety of game types.

As we revealed in our ATI RADEON X1000 architecture overview (for details see our article called [color=#800080]ATI RADEON X1000: Brand-New Graphics Architecture from ATI Explored[/color] ), the new RADEON X1800-series visual processing units (VPUs) feature a lot of promising technologies and manage to demonstrate enough potential in synthetic tests. The time has come reveal performance of ATI RADEON X1800 XT and ATI RADEON X1800 XL graphics products in real-world games and benchmark applications in an attempt to find out whether the GeForce 7800-series is endangered by the new lineup from ATI.
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Oct 9, 2005, 03:35 AM	#1
Lakevren MedicalEntropy Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 294 Rep Power: 0	ATI RADEON X1800 XT and XL Performance: Crushing NVIDIA's 7800? Earlier this year NVIDIA Corp. managed to take the market of high-end graphics cards by storm with its GeForce 7800 GTX and GT products. This moment, ATI Technologies attempts to fight back the lost positions with its RADEON X1800 XT and XL models that also feature impressive horsepower. Can ATI take revenge now? We will find out as we take a look at performance in more than 20 benchmarks that represent variety of game types. As we revealed in our ATI RADEON X1000 architecture overview (for details see our article called [color=#800080]ATI RADEON X1000: Brand-New Graphics Architecture from ATI Explored[/color] ), the new RADEON X1800-series visual processing units (VPUs) feature a lot of promising technologies and manage to demonstrate enough potential in synthetic tests. The time has come reveal performance of ATI RADEON X1800 XT and ATI RADEON X1800 XL graphics products in real-world games and benchmark applications in an attempt to find out whether the GeForce 7800-series is endangered by the new lineup from ATI. _________________ Read More / Source: X-bit Labs __________________ [COLOR=darkorange][COLOR=SeaGreen]Opteron 170 @ 2500 MHZ (In Need of Better HSF)[/COLOR] [/COLOR] [COLOR=darkorange][COLOR=Yellow]DFI LanParty UT SLI-DR Expert[/COLOR] [/COLOR] [COLOR=red]HIS IceQ3 X1900XT @ 680/785 [COLOR=YellowGreen]Corsair XMS Pro DDR 400 1GB[/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=royalblue]CoolerMaster WaveMaster Case[/COLOR]