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GeCube Radeon X600XT Extreme Review |
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Written by Phyro
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Friday, 22 October 2004 |
Digit-Life has published a
review on the GeCube Radeon X600XT Extreme graphics card. In spite of the fact that there appeared newer solutions based on PCI-E interface, manufacturers
of video cards based on firstlings in this segment, in particular Radeon X600, are seeking any methods to attract customers to their products.
 GeCube Radeon X600XT Extreme Review
It's crystal clear that in some tests the new video card outscores even GeForce 6600 in modes with AA due to its fairly good memory bandwidth (relatively!). Very often the product from GeCube outscores a monster of a card
PCX5900.
But on the whole, you can see that no matter what you do with the 4-pipeline chip, it can hardly compete with equally priced 8-pipeline chips, even if the frequency difference reaches the twofold mark. In fact, only its chip operating at 540MHz somehow helps X600XT Extreme to stay up.
This video card is very good and may be in demand as long as its price is lower than that for GeForce 6600. I understand, it's very hard to achieve due to 2.2ns memory and more expensive PCB than in 6600. But if they want to get $150-180 USD for this card, they should understand that one can get a faster video card for this price. That's why I hope that the price for video cards like
GeCube Radeon X600XT Extreme will quickly drop to $130 or even lower, and then
their success will be guaranteed.
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