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Review: Crucial RADEON X850 XT 256MB Video Card

by Tarinder Sandhu on 28 July 2005, 00:00

Tags: Crucial Technology (NASDAQ:MU)

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Fillrate and shading

Let's take a look at the cards' basic vital statistics.

Card Crucial RADEON X850 XT ATI RADEON X850 XT PE ATI RADEON X800 XL GeForce 6800 GT GeForce 6800 Ultra GeForce 7800 GTX
Interface/speed PCI-Express PCI-Express PCI-Express PCI-Express PCI-Express PCI-Express
Onboard memory 256MB 256MB 512MB 256MB 256MB 256MB
Core speed 520MHz 540MHz 400MHz 350MHz 425MHz 430MHz
Rendering pipelines 16 16 16 16 16 24
Fillrate (multi-texturing) 8.32GTexels/s 8.64GTexels/s 6.4GTexels/s 5.6GTexels/s 6.8GTexels/s 10.32GTexels/s
Memory interface 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit
Memory speed 1080MHz 1180MHz 980MHz 1000MHz 1100MHz 1200MHz
Memory bandwidth (max) 34.56GB/s 37.76GB/s 31.36GB/s 32GB/s 35.2GB/s 38.4GB/s
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Let's take a look at fillrate and shading performance figures from 3DMark05's feature tests.





As one would expect, the Crucial X850 XT's fillrate is marginally lower than a PE's, which is clocked at 20MHz higher core and 100MHz higher memory frequencies.



Pixel shading is better than a GeForce 6800 GT's but pales into comparison against NVIDIA's latest GPU.





Vertex shading has always been an ATI forte.