R480 and R430: ATI's Fall PCIe Update

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Radeon X800

ATI Radeon X800

Unfortunately, all that we have to show at this time of the new X800 with 12 pixel pipelines is a press photo. As in the X800 XL, ATI uses a R430 graphics core for the X800. The clock speed is 400/350 MHz.

Test Setup

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We tested the new cards on an ASUS A8N-SLI with NVIDIA’s nForce 4 SLI chipset (in single operation) and an AMD Athlon64 4000+ with 1 GB RAM (DDR 400).

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Test System
CPU AMD Athlon64 4000+
FSB 200 MHz
Motherboard ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce 4 SLI)
Memory 2x Kingston DDR400 KHX3200/512, 1024 MB
HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120 GB S-ATA (8 MB)
DVD Hitachi GD-7000
LAN Netgear FA-312
Power Supply Antec True Control 550W
Drivers & Configuration
Graphics ATI Catalyst v4.12 BetaNVIDIA v66.93
Chipset Intel Inf. Update
OS Windows XP Prof. SP1a
DirectX DirectX 9.0c
Graphic cards used for Benchmarks in this article
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE PCIe (540/590 MHz, 256 MB)Radeon X800 XT PE PCIe (520/560 MHz, 256 MB)Radeon X800 XL PCIe (400/500 MHz, 256 MB)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCIe (420/550 MHz, 256 MB)GeForce 6800 GT PCIe (350/500 MHz, 256 MB)
Benchmarks
3DMark 2005 Standard Resolution
Unreal Tournament 2004 Custom TimedemoMax Details/QualityMap : Assault-FallenCity
Call Of Duty v1.4 Max Details/QualityDemo : VGA
Doom3 Demo : Demo1High Quality
Farcryv1.3 Custom Timedemo cooler01Very High QualityFlashlight : On
Flight Simulator 2004 Custom VideoCustom QualityScenario : Hong Kong at Dusk
Battlefield Vietnamv1.2 FRAPSMax Details/QualityMap : Ho Chi Minh Trail
The Sims 2 FRAPSMax Details/QualityCustom Scene
Half-Life 2 Three custom TimedemosMax Details/Quality