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SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO REVIEW

"Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO review featuring Sapphire Radeon x800, Sapphire Radeon x700 Pro and MSI GeForce 6600 GT. Software used was:- ATI Dangerous Curves and ATI Double Cross."

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO

INVOKE YOUR IMAGINATION! - Merging the blistering frame-rates of the enthusiast realm with the frugality of the mainstream is where the perfect blend of Hybrid lies, the next generation Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO! Built upon industry acclaimed tech and tweaked to perfection is the moniker of any Sapphire product and the X800 GTO does not disappoint with it is 12 Pixel Pipelines and 256MB / 128MB of onboard memory while utilizing a 256-bit memory interface. The only limit to the power you wield is your imagination and the hardware in your PC! Push your PC’s performance threshold and realize the true potential of PCI-Express and the Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO!

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO SPECIFICATIONS

ATI Radeon™ X800 GTO, 256MB Ultra Fast DDR3 Memory, Core: 400MHz, Memory Speed: 980 MHz, 0.13 micron process, Up to 12 extreme parallel pixel pipelines, 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface, 6 programmable vertex shader pipelines, PCI Express X 16, Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion, Dual integrated display controllers, Dual integrated 10 bit per channel 400MHz DACs, Integrated 165MHz TMDS transmitter, Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution, Video-In for Hi quality Video digitalize, edit and playback, and Catalyst™ Software Suite.

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO FEATURES

SMARTSHADER™ HD - Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware. DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shaders. Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control. DirectX 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders. Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass. 2nd generation F-buffer technology accelerates multi-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions. 32 temporary and constant registers. 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats. Multiple Render Target (MRT) support. Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions.

3DC™ - High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression. Works with any two-channel data format.

SMOOTHVISION™ HD - 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes. Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1)at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions. Temporal Anti-Aliasing. 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes. Up to 128-tap texture filtering. Adaptive algorithm with bilinear and trilinear.

HYPER Z™ HD - 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test. Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1). Fast Z-Buffer Clear. Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering. Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions.

VIDEOSHADER™ HD - Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time. FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats. MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration. DXVA Support. Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion. All-format DTV/HDTV decoding. YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays.

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO

CHIP GPU CORE
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MEMORY
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INTERFACE
PIXELS
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SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO R430 400 980 256 12 9.0B
SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 RV430 400 700 256 12 9.0B
SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO RV410 425 864 128 8 9.0B
MSI GEFORCE NX 6600 GT NV43 500 900 128 8 9.0C
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GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

VIDEO CARD SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO
SAPPHIRE RADEON X800
SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO
MSI GEFORCE 6600 GT
ATI DRIVER CATALYST v6.6
NVIDIA DRIVER FORCEWARE v91.31
PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON64 3000
MOTHERBOARD ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA 2
MEMORY 2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0C


ATI TECH DEMO

DANGEROUS CURVES

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO42
SAPPHIRE RADEON X80034
SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO21

DOUBLE CROSS

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO38
SAPPHIRE RADEON X80030
SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO28

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO SAPPHIRE RADEON X800
SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO

COMMENT - "Dangerous Curves and Double Cross demos are designed to show the power of ATI x800 technology. Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO outclasses the Sapphire Radeon x800 by 20% and the Sapphire Hybrid x700 Pro by 50%."

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2003, 3DMARK 2005 AND 3DMARK 2006
PAGE 3 - 3DMARK 2006 GAMES, RIGHTMARK AND SHADERMARK
PAGE 4 - FAR CRY, GT LEGENDS AND PREY
PAGE 5 - QUAKE 4, SCOOTER WAR3Z AND TRACKMANIA SUNRISE
PAGE 6 - TRIBES VENGEANCE, WORLD RACING 2, XPAND RALLY AND FINAL RESULT

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