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PowerColor X600 XT PCI-Express 128MB
Introduction
Intel's recent push of their new 915/925x chipsets is an attempt to speed up the transition from AGP and DDR to PCI Express and DDR2. Both of these new technologies offer their own advantages, but share the common goal of increasing the potential for higher-performing components. While PCIE does not offer any performance gains over AGP yet, as the technology matures we will start to see it utilized more fully. For example, a PCIE X800 Pro will give you roughly the same performance as its AGP counter-part, but as PCIE becomes more widely accepted, VPU manufacturers will be able to produce higher-performing cards that take advantage of this technology. Right now PCIE is still in its infancy. Because of this, there is not a lot of demand for PCIE cards, and so they aren't as readily available as their AGP equivalents for the most part. Until just recently, if you were in the market for a PCIE card, you were pretty much limited to ATI products because NVIDIA's cards were largely unavailable. Finally we are starting to see more of NV's PCIE cards in the marketplace, at least in the low-end and mid-range sectors. Today we will be taking a look at the Radeon X600 XT 128MB from PowerColor. The X600 XT has 4 pixel pipelines and operates at 500 MHz core and 370 MHz (740 MHz DDR) memory speeds. At present, the X600 XT is pretty much a middle-of-the-road offering. Above the X600s you have the X700s, which offer better performance for just a bit more money. On the NVIDIA side, we have the 6200 series and the 6600 series, which are the closest competitors to ATI's X600s and X700s.   
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Card & The Bundle Page 3: Test Setup Page 4: Benchmarks: Doom 3 Page 5: Benchmarks: Half-Life 2 Page 6: Benchmarks: Counter-Strike: Source Page 7: Benchmarks: Far Cry Page 8: Benchmarks: Splinter Cell Page 9: Image Quality Page 10: Overclocking & Conclusion 
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