- Joined
- Sep 16, 2003
- Location
- Knoxville, TN
Anandtech
[H]ard|OCP
Xbit
(stock = 472 | 526)
[H]ard|OCP
Xbit
(stock = 472 | 526)
....Ouch well now we know why they backed off the stock frequencies. Apparentally they have some *serious* yeild issues. To top it all off ATi is adding an AI feature for their IQ logorithms. (aka cheats) Looks like no one is safe from "optimizations"Overclocking the core higher produced artifacts in DOOM 3, and overclocking the memory higher also produced artifacts in DOOM 3. It seems the Radeon X700XT being clocked at 475MHz is very near to the maximum frequency for stability with this revision of the RV410 VPU.
Concerning CATALYST A.I. image quality our initial impressions are that there are not any in-game quality differences by using the default setting at Low. While at the High setting we do start to notice texture aliasing/crawling. We will be doing more investigation into game image quality with CATALYST A.I.
One thing is for sure, the GeForce 6600GT and the Radeon X700XT are very competitive products when it comes to overall gaming performance. If we had to edge out a card that offers up the better value we would have to lean towards the GeForce 6600GT at this point in time. In our two days of X700XT experience we saw it get held out of the top spot in terms of both framerate and image quality by the GeForce 6600GT. Keep in mind that the GeForce 6600 series also packs the performance potential of Shader Model 3.0 once games start using it.