HIS X800GT IceQ II Turbo and HIS X800GTO IceQ II Turbo

Introduction


While ATI is busy showing off their new products it is easy to forget that they still have a pretty nice line-up already out. The X800-series has grown a lot and today I am testing the X800GT and X800GTO cards from HIS.

Specifications


The X800GT and X800GTO chips are aimed at providing mid-level performance. The X800GTO actually is recognized as a X850Pro in the drivers but I can see why they chose to rename it to X800GTO as it would have been confusing to have the X800XL, which is a bit faster, and then the X850 Pro which is slower.

Let’s look at the specifications:

As you see both cards use the R480 chip, same as the X850XT.  I’ve seen mention on the Internet about X800GTO cards where you can unlock the last 4 pipelines so you get a X850XT, but I haven’t tried it on this X800GTO card yet.

Both these cards are of the Turbo variety. This means HIS has already overclocked them from the start with their iTurbo application. On the X800GTO the core is overclocked from 400 MHz to 500 MHz, a cool 25% overclock, while the memory is overclocked from 980 MHz to 1 GHz, a mere 2% overclock. The X800GT has its core overclocked from 475 MHz to 500 Mhz, a 5% overclock, and the memory from 980 MHz to 1 GHz, again a 2% overclock.