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Review: SAPPHIRE RADEON X1800 XL 256MB & XFX GeForce 7800 GT 256MB

by Tarinder Sandhu on 29 October 2005, 16:42

Tags: Sapphire Radeon X1800 XL, Sapphire

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A default-clocked GeForce 7800 GTX is around 8% faster than XFX's souped-up 'GT, which keeps a slender lead over SAPPHIRE's RADEON X1800 XL.



Changing the quality settings to now-higher 4x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering, we see the ATI-based SAPPHIRE card take second place from the XFX 7800 GT. Note just how much faster both are than the high-end cards from the previous generation. Shows just what kind of performance improvements you can expect in games that are shader-heavy in nature.