XFX GeForce 6800GT

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As we were going to press, the street prices for GeForce 6800 and 6800 GT boards were plummeting. XFX just announced a $50 mail-in rebate for this board, taking its street price into the under-$300 range.

Being a performance-oriented bunch of folks, we generally favor performance over price, but given the huge delta in street prices between this board and Sapphire’s slightly faster Radeon X850 XT, and looking at the narrow differences in performance, we have to give the nod to XFX’s GeForce 6800GT.


Besides, we know the XFX board will run in SLI mode today (in fact, it spanked Asus’ highly overclocked Extreme N7800 GTX Top). Who knows when ATI customers will be able to harness a pair of X850 XTs?

—Michael Brown

Month Reviewed: November 2005

Verdict: 8

URL: www.xfxforce.com

HEAD-TO-HEAD VIDEOCARD BENCHMARKS

Best scores in each category (shaded) are bolded.

HOW WE TESTED:

TEST SYSTEM: Athlon FX-55, nForce4, SLI motherboard, 2GB DDR RAM

DOOM 3: Timedemo 1 tested at 1600x1200, High Quality, 4x AA

FAR CRY: Boat level tested at 1600x1200, all settings on High (water at Ultra High), 4x AA, 8x aniso

HALO: Timedemo script tested at 1600x1200

3DMARK03 GAME 2 AND GAME 4: Tested at 1600x1200, 4x AA, 8x aniso

3DMARK03 AND 3DMARK05: Tested using default settings

HQV SCORE: HQV Benchmark DVD