PowerColor X800GT
PowerColor X800GT
Package bundle:
- PowerColor X800GT video card;
- Two DVI/D-Sub 15-pin adapters and a S-Video/RCA adapter;
- RCA, S-Video, HDTV cables;
- User's manual;
- CD with drivers and utilities;
- CD with software for DVD;
- Game - Hitman: Contracts on 2 CDs.
To all appearances, this board is of ATI's reference design. Note that not all boards by the company's partners offer similar design. In particular, HIS placed all the memory chips on the front side of the board, and on some cards there are contact pads for "additional" video memory chips, which implies possible emergence of 512Mb modifications. Certainly, this prospect has disputable use considering the price positioning of the card, but nevertheless.. With Rage Theater, all is neither straightforward - on PowerColor X800GT, there is soldered pad for it, however the chip itself is not installed. Judging by other photos of X800GT cards, some solutions will be equipped with a Rage Theater chip which will provide support for VIVO features.
  As the cooling system, PowerColor uses an aluminum radiator with a fan covering the GPU. The cooler does not cool the memory chips on the front side because there is no contact between them. To provide more reliable fastening of the cooling system, on the reverse side of the board there is plate to which the radiator is attached with two spring-loaded screws. To prevent the board from damages upon contact with the radiator, protective washers are fitted on its foot.
The cooling system is not making immense noise, and if necessary you can adjust the fan's rotational speed (e.g. with Riva Tuner).
The GPU of R480 offers eight activated pixel pipelines and six vertex units. The GPU operating frequency is 475MHz.
By the way, the utilities which we normally use in tests detected the chip as R423.
The board is equipped with 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, a 256-bit data transmission bus, in the form of eight Samsung memory circuits made in the BGA form factor, of 2 ns access time. This is equivalent to 500 MHz (1000 MHz DDR) of operating frequency. The nominal operating frequency of the video memory is 980 MHz DDR. The memory chips are positioned in four along each side of the PCB. Also, note that some partners are probably using much faster memory of 1.6 ns access time. That is most possible in the so-called "overclockers' versions" which will be more than enough considering the specifics and positioning of the product.
Unlike RX800XT, the RX800GT is not equipped with a connector for additional power supply - therefore, the power consumption level is not high and does not exceed 75W which the card gets through the PCI-Express x16 slot.
PowerColor X800GT is equipped with two digital outputs (there are two DVI/D-Sub 15-pin adapters in the package bundle). The presence of two digital outputs is not standard. Many manufacturers have equipped their X800GT boards with an analogous output as well.
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