Graphic Cards PowerColor X800GT @ 9995

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PowerColor X800 GT

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Hi Guys

Just got my copy of CHIP Mag Nov 2005 Issue.

PowerColor X800 GT
Memory & Bus width : 256 MB DDR3 / 256 bit
Core speed : 475 MHz
Memory speed : 490MHz X 2
Output : Dual DVI / HDTV
Interface : PCIe 16x
Pixel Pipelines : 8

PowerColor X800 GT Technology Specifications

- 8 parallel pixel pipelines
- 6 parallel vertex processing engines
- 160 million transistors on 0.13 micron fabrication process
- 256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory interface
- PCI Express? x16 lane native support
- MCE support

SMARTSHADER â„¢ HD
- Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware

- DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shaders
- Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
- Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)

- Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
- Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
- 32 temporary and constant registers
- Facing register for two-sided lighting
- 128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
- Multiple Render Target (MRT) support

- Complete feature set also supported in OpenGLR via extensions

SMOOTHVISION â„¢ HD
- 2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
- Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
- Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1)at all resolutions, including widescreen

HDTV resolutions
- Temporal Anti-Aliasing
- 2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
- Up to 128-tap texture filtering
- Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) options

3Dc â„¢
- High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
- Works with any two-channel data format

HYPER Z â„¢ HD
- 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
- Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
- Fast Z-Buffer Clear
- Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
- Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

VIDEOSHADER â„¢ HD
- Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
- FULLSTREAM? video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
- VIDEOSOAP? noise removal filtering for captured video
- MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
- DXVA Support
- Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversioon
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
- Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)
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This is what Chip has to say

1.> PCI-Express 256MB - 256Bit
2.> X800GT is superior to 6600GT Spec wise
3.> 8 Pixel Pipelines , 6 Vertex Shader Units
4.> GPU @ 475Mhz & Memory @ 985Mhz

Benchies
3D Marks 2003 - 9005
3D Marks 2005 - 4005

Doom3 - 40FPS @ 1024x768 - 4xAA & 8xAF :hap2:
HL2 - 50FPS @ 1280x1024 - 8xAA & 16xAF :hap2:
Fear - 38FPS @ 1024x768 - 4xAA & 8xAF :hap2:

Only downside is no SM 3.0

For: Good Perf , 256MB GDDR3 , no additional power req.
Against: No Shader Model 3.0 , slightly expensive[but i feel its perfectly priced]
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Overclocking @ neoseeker.com

Seeing as this card was designed to be overclocked, it comes as no suprise that we were able to top out at 170 (!) MHz over the base spec. This is 100 MHz over the overclock that Powercolor ships the card with. This is extremely impressive and anyone who either owns or ends up owning this card should at least consider using its high performance potential.

We got the core on our card up from 400 MHz all the way to 570 MHz. The performance gains from such an overclock are definitely noticeable, and as you can see from our results, boost the X800 GT to very nice levels.

In 3DMark 05, the card when overclocked scored 94 frames in the Pixel Shader test. This still falls below the 6600 GT at stock speeds, but it's up almost 20 frames from the score the Radeon received at the speeds Powercolor shipped the card at.

In Doom 3, at 1024 x 768 with full filtering, the card received a boost of about 5 frames which seems paltry, but then again Doom 3 does not give good performance for Radeon cards.

Call of Duty 2 with filtering on at 1024 was bordering much closer to playable with the higher speeds, but there will have been a full months of optimisation between the demo and the retail game.
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Overclocking @ Hexus.net

So just how far above the already-increased X800 GT 256MB frequencies were both samples able to go? Running overclocking tests by inching up core and memory speeds until visible artifacts became apparent, the air-cooled PowerColor X800 GT Xtreme 256MB sample was stable at 561MHz core and 1176MHz memory. The memory speed is a little lower than what the Samsung GDDR3 1.6ns RAM is specified to run at, so PowerColor may well be using slightly tighter timings.
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I am completly impressed with X800GT also the price is awesome.
It will be still cheaper at lammy [Hoping]

Also is Sapphire X800GT available here.
Also does ne one have the cost of GTO's from Ati.

Is Powercolor the brand to get here ne other brand in India offering this same X800GT.

More Reviews
1.> http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/atiradeonx800gt/
2.> http://www.xtremeresources.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=122
3.> http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/pc-x800gt.html
4.> http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3639

Images
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/pc-x800gt/front.jpg
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/pc-x800gt/back.jpg
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/pc-x800gt/chip.jpg
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/video/pc-x800gt/bundle.jpg
 
in my experience, most of the times prices mentioned in the mags are exclusive of taxes, so, the market/selling price is usually higher than quoted in the mag..
 
I thought the prices mentioned in mags is usually on the higher side ! Atleast thats what they said in the DFI @ 15.9K thread
 
it depends on who is providing the pricing to the CHIP and digit.

Mediatech and some distros provide the market price exclusive of local tax. Some provide MSRP.

This is market price. i got quoted the exact same amount on this card a week or two ago.

So this is street price from the looks of it.
 
Just had a talk with MediaTech today.
They told me the same amount 9995Rs.

Also it will be available in Dec 12-13 not now. :S

Also if ne one comes to know about a X800 GTO here please lemme know.

Currently thinking of the X800GT for my Rig at 10K :D
Also many reviews say that it can be overclocked to 560/550.

Also read in some reviews that the remaining 8 PixelPipelines can be unlocked .
But did not find a link that would explain how this can be done.
 
Well Quad I would say wait for sometime till 6800 GS is released, it will be a better deal. And apart from flashing bios I dont think you can unlock the pipelines on the Powercolur card, but it OC's well..
 
The XFX 6800GS at 20K is beyond my reach.

However the Powercolor X800GT looks nice and it even oc's well.
But still looking for GTO here if its like 13K its a nice deal.
 
Ok guys, since i myself reviewed the card, i guess i should help you guys clear the doubts.

1) The card X800GT is a good card for the money and yes the mentioned price is accurate

2) The "Xtreme" edition of this card oces well while this one is not a great ocer.

3) AGP version as of now is not avail i dunno if mediatech is gonna get it cause they all are goin for pcie platforms.
 
Wasp said:
Ok guys, since i myself reviewed the card, i guess i should help you guys clear the doubts.

1) The card X800GT is a good card for the money and yes the mentioned price is accurate

2) The "Xtreme" edition of this card oces well while this one is not a great ocer.

3) AGP version as of now is not avail i dunno if mediatech is gonna get it cause they all are goin for pcie platforms.
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@Wasp
From the reviews i read that the normal Powercolor X800GT oc's 560/550.
Doesnt it oc this much on stock cooler.

Can the extra pipelines be unlocked.

Also whats the cost of the Xtreme Edt and is it available here.

Also i am looking for the X800GTO here if u know where i can get it lemme know and also mention the cost.
 
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I don't know how much it will OC after enabling all pipes. The gto2 comes with a power connector, just like the x850, so it is safe to O/C.
The gt doesnt have power connector, so I suppose O/Cing will be limited.
 
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