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ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB PCI-E Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Saturday, 11 March 2006 |
The Inquirer shares a
review on the ATI Radeon X1800 GTO
256MB PCIe graphics card. ATI
got served with the GeForce 6800 GS. This card has hurt ATI big time. ATI started shipping Radeon X1600 XT
and PRO around December 2005. The card is certainly faster than a GeForce 6600
GT but it could not beat the reintroduced GeForce 6800 GS. The GeForce 6800 GS
won't simply as it had 256-bit memory interface, that was its key. Since then ATI was working on the revenge and
it decided to brand it Radeon X1800 GTO. The GTO series was very successful for
ATI and it sold a lot of Radeon
X800 GTO based cards. That's why it decided to continue the tradition and to
introduce the new Radeon X1800 GTO.
 ATI Radeon X1800
GTO 256MB PCI-E Review
The Radeon X1800 GTO is not a new card it is rather reinvented and crippled
Radeon X1800 XT card. It works at 500MHz core and 1000MHz memory but its
pipelines number is reduced to twelve. The standard Radeon X1800 XL has sixteen
pipelines. Both cards are based on R520 core and as you know every new revision
of the core is highly overclockable. Radeon X1800 GTO has 256MB of 256-bit
memory and we think this is the key element why this card might win the game
against just announced GeForce 7600 GT. NVIDIA still has to launch its GeForce 7600 GS but that will
not be able to compete the new GTO.
We have to compare this card with the
GeForce 7600 GT but at press time we didn't had any in our hands. We should
bring you a few more mainstream cards and compare them together to find the
optimal solution for the money. We think that ATI did a good job with the Radeon X1800 GTO. It is new lamp
for old ones strategy but as long as it means a good card for not so much money
we are happy about it. The card won't be available today but we learned that it
will be in retail and etail stores around 20th of March. It is not that bad but
we have to say that ATI did paper
launched the card.
We suspect that the Radeon X1800 GTO should end up
faster than the GeForce 7600 GT as it has 256-bit memory versus 128-bit memory
in NVIDIA's case. Last time NVIDIA won because of its 256-bit
memory interface. The Radeon X1800 GTO looks like a good card to us and the
pricing is right, so the card has the every chance to be the real
successor.
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