Gigabyte's Radeon X800: Give the Gamers What They Want
Conclusion
Gigabyte's Radeon X800 Pro did not fail to impress. In addition to good 3D performance and a full feature set, the card also earns points for its generous gaming bundle and a complete set of cables, which includes a YPrPb component cable for use with HDTV displays. Hardware enthusiasts will appreciate Gigabyte's V-Tuner 2 overclocking utility and the cooling fan featuring LED lights. The only negative point is the meager and outdated application software bundle.
Pros
- High 3D performance and DirectX 9.0b support
- Texture filtering optimizations can deactivated (in part)
- TV-Out
- HDTV connectivity thanks to YPrPb cable
- Full set of cables
- Very good gaming bundle
- Taskbar-Tool & Overclocking Software
Con
- High price
- Outdated and rather slim software bundle
- No video inputs
Feature Table
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Product Name | Gigabyte Radeon X800 Pro (GV-R80P256D) |
| Manufacturer | Gigabyte |
| Homepage | GIGABYTE - Graphics Accelerator - Products |
| Graphics Processor | ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Codename R420 |
| Bus Standard | AGP 4x/8x |
| Memory | 256 MB |
| Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| Core Clock Speed | 475 MHz |
| Memory Clock Speed | 450 MHz |
| Memory Buswidth | 256 bit |
| Memory Bandwidth | 28.8 GB/s |
| Pixel Pipelines | 12 |
| Vertex Shader Units | 6 |
| 3D Features | |
| DirectX Support | DirectX 9.0b |
| Texture Filtering | Bilinear
Trilinear max 16x Anisotropic |
| FSAA | Multi-Sampling: 2x/4x/6x |
| Floating Point Precission | 24 bit |
| Outputs | |
| VGA | 1x |
| DVI | 1x |
| TV-Out | + |
| TV-Out HDTV Support | + |
| Dual-Link DVI | - |
| Inputs | |
| Power Cable | + |
| Video-In | - |
| TV-In (Tuner) | - |
| Audio-In | - |
| Equipment | |
| Cooling | Cooling Fan |
| Adjustable Fan-Speed | Automatic |
| Hardware-Monitoring | Automatic |
| DVI-I -> VGA Adaptor | + |
| Cables | S-Video Cable
Composite Cable |
| (HDTV) YPrPb component output | + |
| Bundle | |
| Software Bundle | 3D-Album LE 2.03
PowerDVD 5.0 |
| Games Bundle | Counterstrike Coundition Zero
Rainbow Six 3 Raven Sield Spell Force The Order Dawn |
| Others/Specials | LED Lights |
Summary
