Asus Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
Asus managed to surprise us once more. Except from the great variety of consumer electronics and optical drives, Asus has also released some top notch hardware products. In the past I had the opportunity to review the Asus FX 5900 GE VGA card. You can read the review in CDRinfo's first VGA roundup. And being faithful to it's promises Asus has send us it's latest VGA card - The AX X800 XT supplied with 256 MB of DDR 3 Video Memory.
As known ATI's XT models are already overclocked by the manufacturer, so the default clock speeds are 520 MHz for it's engine and 1.12 Ghz (2x 520 MHz) for it's memory clock. Very high clock speeds indeed but let's see more about the specifications of this Graphics monster.
- Specifications
| GPU |
ATI X800 XT (R420) |
| Memory Bus Width |
256 MB |
| Memory interface |
256 bit |
| Memory Type |
DDR3 |
| Core Clock |
520 MHz |
| Memory Clock |
1.12 GHz (2x560) |
| Memory Bandwidth |
36.8 GB/s |
| Pixel Fill Rate |
8.8 Gpixels/sec |
| Geometry rate |
750 Mtriangles/sec |
| Bus |
8x/4x/2x AGP |
| Processing technology |
0.13µ |
| Output Connections |
DVI out, CRT out, S-Video out |
| Cooling |
Fan Sink |
| 2D Display Resolutions & Hz |
640x480@240, 800x600@240, 1024x768@200, 1152x864@170, 1280x1024@150, 1600x1200@100, 1920x1440@85, 2048x1536@85 |
| 3D Maximum resolution |
2048x1536 with 16.7M colors |
| Anisotropic Filtering modes (AF) |
2x/4x/6x |
| Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) modes |
2x/4x//8x/16x |
| Dual Display |
Supported |
| Pipelines |
16 |
| Texture units per pixel pipeline |
1 |
| Technologies supported |
-SmartShader HD
-SmoothVision HD
-HyperZ HD
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VideoShader HD
|
| OpenGL support |
2.0 |
| Pixel Shader Support |
3.0 |
| Vertex Shader Support |
3.0 |
| DTV/HDTV decoding |
Supported |
| System requirements |
Intel® Pentium® 4/III/Celeron™, AMD® Duron/Athlon®/Athlon
XP®, or 4X (1.5V), compatible with AGP, 8X (0.8v) or Universal
AGP 3.0 bus configuration
•
Windows 2000, XP
•
128MB of system memory
•
Installation software requires
CD-ROM drive
•
DVD playback requires DVD drive
•
350 Watt power supply or
greater recommended
|
The front side of Asus AX X800 XT
Very nice fan and guess what...
... it glows in the dark!!!
The back side
The back side of the fan sink
Fan sink removed
A closer look of the R420 GPU
Samsung memories used
ATI's Rage Theater chip
-The bundle
Asus is one of the few manufacturers offering great software bundle. The accompanied software is consisted of the following:
Asus/CyberLink: PowerDirector 3DE
Ulead Cool
3D SE 3.0
Ulead Photo Express SE 4.0
Asus/CyberLink: MediaShow SE 2.0
Asus DVD XP
WinDVD Creator
Deus Ex Invisible War
Counter Strike - Condition Zero (2 disky)
Instalation CD (2 disks)
A USB camera is also included in the box. It's
specifications are the following:
- USB CMOS camera
-
300 kpixels
-
Built-in microphone
-
More than 30fps / QVGA
- Ideal for video conference, video chatting
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Support hardware snap-shot button