*OFFICIAL* ATI Radeon X800 PRO & XT Review Thread

[GTaudiophile]

REVIEWS

Leaked Info?
Legit Review from Spain?
Chip.de Review
HardOCP Review
Extremetech Review
Hexus.net Review
Techreport Review
Beyond3D Review
FiringSquad Review (Updated)
Tom's Review

Anandtech Review

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HardOCP Confirms Prices/Release Dates

X800 PRO: $399 (Available May 4)

X800 XT: $499 (Available May 21)

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Radeon X800 Pro/XT Launch Partners

 

[Confused]

According to the thread in Video, the NDA doesn't expire until 1400GMT, which is 2:15 from now.


Confused

 

[BoomAM]

Im interested in the final analysis of the R42x range, and then later the reviews on retail stuff.
[rant]
Then, we can finally get rid of all the chlidish squabeling of members talking out of their league on the differences between PS2.0 & 3.0 and the effects of clock speeds and pipelines on the whole thing.
[/rant]

 

[rbV5]

Chip Online de

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: rbV5
Chip Online de

If those benchmarks are accurate, seems ati has a winner.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: rbV5
Chip Online de

If those benchmarks are accurate, seems ati has a winner.

I have a hard time believing the Far Cry #'s, nearly doubled up on the 6800u (16x12@41FPS vs 10x7@44 FPS)

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold

Originally posted by: rbV5
Chip Online de

If those benchmarks are accurate, seems ati has a winner.

The results of the 6800U vs 9800XT don't seem to reflect the sizeable lead we saw in benchs from other sites when the 6800U was released...

 

[sandorski]

If thos numbers are correct it certainly looks like the ATI/NVidia race is still on with ATI holding a performance edge overall. I'll wait for more reviews, but I don't think these numbers are unbelievable.

 

[MDE]

HardOCP.
They broke the NDA by a minute .

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: MDE
HardOCP.
They broke the NDA by a minute .

Slow as hell of course. And they are now doing apples-to-apples benchs in response to all the complaints woohoo .

EDIT: and none of the images seem to load...

 

[MemberSince97]

[rant]
Then, we can finally get rid of all the chlidish squabeling of members talking out of their league on the differences between PS2.0 & 3.0 and the effects of clock speeds and pipelines on the whole thing.
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I'm afraid that will never happen.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Dman877

Originally posted by: MDE
HardOCP.
They broke the NDA by a minute .

Slow as hell of course. And they are now doing apples-to-apples benchs in response to all the complaints woohoo .

Their pictures aren't up yet .

 

[anthrax]

HEXUS.NET is out too... Hexus's review


Pictures working too !

There review's is pretty good....... Benchmarks are shown using the frame rate/resolution graph.....just like Tech Reports review..............The new graphs are much more infomative than the traditional bar chart......


Tech Reports review also includes benchmarks from the 6800 Ultra Extreme too !

 

[anthrax]

So is techreport too Techreport's review


TR's one comes with info on Nvidia clocked up 6800 ultra extreme too..!

 

[NFS4]

All reviews listed here:

http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.html?i=22108

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Beyond3d.com

 

[GTaudiophile]

From the TR Review

Note some details in the pictures above. The cooler is a single-slot design for both cards. Both the X800 Pro and XT Platinum Edition require only one aux power connector, and they should work with any decent 300W power supply unit. In fact, one of the ATI engineers brought an X800-equipped Shuttle XPC to the X800 launch event, just to show it was possible to use the card in it.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Dman877

Originally posted by: MDE
HardOCP.
They broke the NDA by a minute .

Slow as hell of course. And they are now doing apples-to-apples benchs in response to all the complaints woohoo .

EDIT: and none of the images seem to load...

It specifically says they use the same crappy testing methodology for "highest playable settings".

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
From the TR Review

Note some details in the pictures above. The cooler is a single-slot design for both cards. Both the X800 Pro and XT Platinum Edition require only one aux power connector, and they should work with any decent 300W power supply unit. In fact, one of the ATI engineers brought an X800-equipped Shuttle XPC to the X800 launch event, just to show it was possible to use the card in it.

That does it!! Forget NVIDIA with their twin power/dual slot hijinks. ATI all the way this round!! (as it was last round).

And with their superior FSAA, it's a done deal. NVIDIA who??

 

[Dman877]

Anyone live near a best buy? I wonder if they have the X800Pro yet...

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: Dman877
Anyone live near a best buy? I wonder if they have the X800Pro yet...

Calm down, BB isn't even open yet.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: Dman877
Anyone live near a best buy? I wonder if they have the X800Pro yet...

Calm down, BB isn't even open yet.

Damn dude. All he asked is if anyone had a BB near them.

 

[Brian48]

Well, I guess if there's an early assumption based on these comparison reviews, the ATI is probably the preferred card for DX 9.0 games like HL2, however the nVidia looks to be the card for Doom3 and all it's variants based on the same OpenGL engine. Not a huge surprise.

Good to see that differences are much smaller this time. Competition is great.

 

[Dman877]

Firingsquad w/6800U Extreme

 

[LTC8K6]

If you factor in the power and single slot, it looks like ATI has done it again.