SAPPHIRE RADEON X1800 GTO REVIEW

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

COMMENT - "The Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO performs well with Dangerous Curves and Double Cross ATI Tech Demos featuring Ruby. The Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO firstly outperforms the Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO by 14% using Dangerous Curves and then beats the Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro by 6% with Double Cross."

COMMENT - "We start the real synthetic benchmarking with 3dmark 2003 and the Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO outperforms the Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO by 14% and the Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro by 26%. We have also featured the results for the 3dmark 2003 game benchmarks which clearly show the Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO has a fairly large advantage over the Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO and Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro."

COMMENT - "3dmark 2005 is more demanding than the earlier 3dmark 2003 and this is reflected in the almost 50% lower score. However the Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO is more than a match for 3dmark 2005 and the Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO outperforms the Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro by 20% and the Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO by 24%. It appears that the older technology found on the Sapphire Radeon x800 GTO is starting to struggle with the newer 3dmark benchmarks. The Sapphire Radeon x1800 GTO also does very well with the 3dmark 2005 game benchmarks beating the Sapphire Radeon x1650 Pro by between 14% to 25%."