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HIS X800XL vs Sapphire X800XL 512 MB

Date: 2005-08-03 | Author: Björn Endre
Company: HIS , Sapphire

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INTRODUCTION
 
If you are after a card with a good price vs performance ratio, the ATI X800XL is a good choice. Even though cards using it are $100 cheaper that the X850XT based cards, it still isn’t a cut down chip, and except for lower core and memory speeds, it has the same amount of pipelines and technical features as its bigger brother.
 
With tons of companies selling X800XL cards, it is obvious they try their hardest to find that special feature that makes their card special and buyable.
 
Today, I am testing two cards with different features. First we have the HIS X800XL. As other HIS cards I’ve reviewed, this comes with their IceQII cooling system, making it very silent. In the other corner, I have the Sapphire X800XL 512 MB, which, as you might figure out, comes with twice the memory of ordinary X800XL cards: 512 MB.
 
TECH SPECS AND FEATURES
 
As I mentioned in the beginning the X800XL shares much of the same features as the more expensive X850XT.
 
Model Name HIS X850XT PE IceQ II Dual DVI VIVO 256MB PCIe HIS X850XT IceQ II Turbo Dual DVI VIVO 256MB PCIe HIS X800XL IceQ II Turbo Dual DVI 256MB PCIe Sapphire Hybrid X800XL 512 MB
Chipset Radeon X850 PCIe Series Radeon X850 PCIe Series Radeon X800 PCIe Series Radeon X800 AGP Series
ASIC R480 R480 R430 R430 
Pixel Pipelines 16 16 16 16
Vertex Engines 6 6 6 6
Transistor 160M 160M 160M 160M
Fill Rate 8640MTexel/s 8640MTexel/s or
8528MTexels/s 
6912MTexel/s 6912MTexel/s
Memory Size(MB) 256 256 256 512 
Memory Type GDDR3 GDDR3 GDDR3 GDDR3
RAMDAC (MHz) 400 Dual 400 Dual 400 Dual 400 Dual
Engine CLK (MHz) 540 540 (Turbo)
533 Normal 
400  400
Memory CLK (MHz) 1180 1180 (Turbo)
1148 (Normal)
986 MHz 980 MHz
Memory Interface (bit) 256 256 256 256
Memory Bandwidth 37.8GB/s 37.8GB/s or
36.8GB/s
32.0GB/s 32.0GB/s
Maximum Resolution 2048x1536 2048x1536 2048x1536 2048x1536
Bus Interface PCIe PCIe PCIe PCIe
 
The HIS X800XL and the Sapphire X800XL 512 MB run at similar clockspeeds.
There are some differences however:
  • The Sapphire X800XL 512 MB has Video In as well as Video Out and thus has the Rage Theater chip. This chip is missing on the HIS x800XL card.
  • The Sapphire card  needs extra power through a power connector
  • While the HIS has one VGA connector and one DVI connector the Sapphire card has two DVI connectors.
  • The Sapphire card comes with a standard ATI cooler while the HIS card uses the Arctic Cooling  cooler.
Both cards however are dual-slot cards meaning you will have to make sure to have some extra room to the side of the PCI-E slot.
 



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