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SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO REVIEW

"Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO review featuring Sapphire Radeon x800, Sapphire Radeon x700 Pro and MSI NX 6600 GT. Games software used for benchmarking was:- Farcry, GT Legends and Prey."

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!

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

VIDEO CARD	SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO
	SAPPHIRE RADEON X800
	SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO
	MSI NX 6600 GT VTD128
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

BENCHMARK SETTINGS:- We use three different image quality and resolution settings when we benchmark computer hardware for review. Low quality setting uses a resolution of 1024x768 (unless otherwise stated) and all of the game settings are set to low, this setting will mostly test for processor rather than video performance. Medium quality setting uses a resolution of 1280x1024 (unless otherwise stated) and all of the game settings are set to medium, this setting will test both the processor and video performance. High quality setting uses a resolution of 1600x1200 (unless otherwise stated) and all of the game settings are set to high, this setting is a very demanding test for video rather processor performance!

FARCRY

MEDIUM QUALITY

	91
	81
	71
	75

HIGH QUALITY

	68
	60
	36
	42

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO SAPPHIRE RADEON X800
SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO MSI GEFORCE NX 6600 GT

COMMENT - "Now we get to the interesting benchmarks and what better start than the classic game Farcry. It was good to see that all of the video cards can provide very playable performance with Farcry but there can be only one winner and the Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO beats the Sapphire Radeon x800 by between 11% to 12%."

GT LEGENDS

MEDIUM QUALITY

	60
	53
	45
	38

HIGH QUALITY

	48
	42
	23
	22

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO SAPPHIRE RADEON X800
SAPPHIRE HYBRID X700 PRO MSI GEFORCE NX 6600 GT

COMMENT - "GT Legends is a game which we have found usually favours ATI rather than Nvidia video cards. The Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO narrowly outperforms the Sapphire Radeon x800 by between 12% to 13%."

PREY

MEDIUM QUALITY

	56
	46
	54

HIGH QUALITY

	30
	21
	24

SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GTO SAPPHIRE RADEON X800
MSI GEFORCE NX 6600 GT

COMMENT - "All Doom3 based games usually favour Nvidia rather than ATI which explains the good performance shown by the MSI NX 6600 GT. The Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO manages a victory over the MSI NX 6600 GT of between 4% to 20%."

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