| ATI RADEON X800XL 512MB |
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| Brand | Gigabyte |
| Model | RADEON X800XL 512MB |
| Graphics Chip | X800XL |
| Graphics Memory Type | DDR3 |
| Memory (MB) | 512 |
| Graphics Core Clock (MHz) | 400 |
| Memory Clock (MHz) | 980 |
| Memory Speed (ns) | 2 |
| RAMDAC Frequency (MHz) | Dual 400 |
| Active Cooling on Graphics Chip | Yes |
| Heatsink on Memory | Yes |
| Video Capture | Yes |
| Ports | |
| Dual Monitor Support | Yes |
| VGA Out | DVI-I, DVI-I |
| Video In and Out | TV Out |
| Package and Support | |
| Printed Manual | N/A |
| Driver CD | N/A |
| Performance Tool Software | No |
| Major Games | No |
| Major Software | No |
| VR Glasses | No |
| DVD Player Software | No |
| Video Recording Software | N/A |
ATI has changed their reference design slightly to accommodate the extra 256MB on the card. The 256MB version of the X800XL is a standard length PCI Express X16 card with 4 memory chips on the front of the card. The 512MB version has 8 memory chips on the front of the card and 8 on the rear of the board. A large heat sink/fan assembly covers the graphics core and memory chips. The fan is a 13-fin radial fan that sits on top of the graphics chip, while the surrounding heat sink covers the 8 memory chips. ATI covered the 8 rear memory chips with a metal heat spreader.
The core on the X800XL remains unchanged from the 256MB version with 400MHz for the core clock speed and 980MHz for the memory clock speed. This provides a maximum theoretical fillrate of 6.4 Gigapixels a second, due to the 16 pixel pipelines found on the card and a maximum memory bandwidth of 31.4GB/second. The X800XL is based upon ATI's R430 chip, which is based upon a 0.11-micron process, the same as the 256MB X800XL. The feature set is identical to last year's X800XT series and today's X850XT cards, and I won't rehash it here. One thing ATI has done with the R4xx series of cards is use the same base core and scale up or down the number of pixel pipelines to get differing performance parts. The input and output ports on the 512MB X800XL are the same as found on most high-end computer video cards today. It's especially gratifying to see ATI include 2 DVI-I ports. You can set up your system with 2 LCD DVI capable monitors, or one CRT and a LCD, or two CRTs with the included DVI to D-Sub adapters. I hope that all cards released this year will have this configuration, as it is flexible and inexpensive, as LCD monitors have taken the place of CRT monitors in the market place. There is also a TV-Out port, allowing you to play computer games on a television set.
