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Candidates From Part 1

09:34 - Friday 12 May 2006 by Tino Kreiss

Candidates From Part 1

eVGA GeForce 7800 GS AGP Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro AGP Gainward Golden Sample BLISS 6800 GS PCX Gecube Radeon X1900 XTX HIS Radeon X1600 XT iTurbo IceQ HIS Radeon X1800 XT iTurbo Powercolor Radeon X1900 XTX Sapphire Radeon X1300

Outlook For Part 3

Asus EAX X1600 XT Silent Gecube Radeon X1800 GTO MSI RX1900 XTX-VT2D512E Powercolor Radeon X1300 Hypermemory 2 Sapphire Radeon X1600 XT Sapphire Radeon X1800 XL A Detailed Look At The Candidates

Card Manufacturer and Chip	Code Name	Memory	HDR-R	Vertex Shader / Pixel Shader	GPU Frequency	Memory Frequency
Nvidia Graphics Cards
eVGA GeForce 7800 GS SC AGP	G70	256 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	460 MHz	1350 MHz
ATI Graphics Cards
Gecube Radeon X1900 XTX OC	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	690 MHz	1600 MHz
Gecube Radeon X1900 XTX	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	648 MHz	1548 MHz
Powercolor Radeon X1900 XTX OC	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	690 MHz	1600 MHz
Powercolor Radeon X1900 XTX	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	648 MHz	1548 MHz
HIS Radeon X1900 XTX OC	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	679 MHz	1594 MHz
HIS Radeon X1900 XTX	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	648 MHz	1548 MHz
Sapphire Radeon X1900 XTX OC	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	689 MHz	1594 MHz
Sapphire Radeon X1900 XTX	R580	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	648 MHz	1548 MHz
Sapphire Radeon X1800 XT OC	R520	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	695 MHz	1584 MHz
HIS Radeon X1800 XT iTurbo	R520	512 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	695 MHz	1584 MHz
HIS Radeon X1800 XL OC	R520	256 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	554 MHz	1098 MHz
HIS Radeon X1800 XL	R520	256 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	500 MHz	990 MHz
HIS Radeon X1600 XT iTurbo OC	RV530	256 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	600 MHz	1404 MHz
HIS Radeon X1600 XT iTurbo	RV530	256 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	587 MHz	1386 MHz
Powercolor Radeon X1600 XT	RV530	256 MB GDDR3	yes	3.0 / 3.0	587 MHz	1386 MHz
Sapphire Radeon X1300 Pro	R515	256 MB DDR2	yes	3.0 / 3.0	601 MHz	802 MHz
Sapphire Radeon X1300	R515	256 MB DDR2	yes	3.0 / 3.0	452 MHz	514 MHz
Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro AGP	RV530	256 MB DDR2	yes	3.0 / 3.0	500 MHz	810 MHz