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Thursday, September 29, 2005
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The X800GT is the mainstream VPU recently introduced by ATi. It is based on the same core as the more expensive X850XT, a.k.a. R480, but with half of the pixel pipelines disabled. We speculate that ATi is simply binning the R480 line and using the "faulty" ones for the X800GT line. The targeted retail price should be pretty close to Nvidia's 6600GT, however, X800GT will come with 256MB GDDR as standard. Let us see if ATi can create another R9800Pro, where the VPU offers an unbeatable performance and price ratio at that time...
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Friday, August 12, 2005
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ATI's X800 GT SKU offers, finally, real-world performance that, on balance, overcomes NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 GT. Users looking to upgrade to a £100-£110 PCI-Express GPU would do well to seriously consider SAPPHIRE's X800 GT Hybrid 256MB card. AGP users will need to wait, though, and the very nature of the how the X800 GT came into being indicates that it won't be around forever, so snap it up while you still can...
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