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Radeon 9800XT: GeCube vs. PowerColor |
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Written by Phyro
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Thursday, 28 October 2004 |
OC-Serwis has done a comparison between a GeCube Radeon 9800XT and a PowerColor Radeon 9800XT. When we intend to buy a new graphic card, the first thing is to chose the manufacturer of GPU (VPU). We have two options here : nVidia or ATI. We can of course find some other manufacturers' cards some places, but these two rule on the market. Next, depending on the amount of money, we have to chose the GPU (VPU) model. Efficient and expensive or cheap and less efficient. After so much trouble, we pick the model and then comes another decision to make: which manufacturer should we chose. It is not as easy as it seems to be. The card can have the same technical parameters and therefore the same efficiency, but can be very different if it comes to the software provided, cables or any other additionals.
 Radeon 9800XT: GeCube vs. PowerColor
If it comes to the fan efficiency, apparently identical, they did not work the same. The GeCube card's fan was much faster and much louder. I am sure I don't recommend this card to those, who mind the noise. This card would be probably thrown out of the window right away if that kind of person heard what I did during the tests. PowerColor's cooling was not very quiet either but much better than GeCube's.
Both cards can be graded the same. The results are sometimes a bit (actually more than a bit) different, but generally the cards offer the same efficiency. The same with overclocking. Therefore in this category I can not give any card any point that would make it better than the other one.
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