PCI Express graphics cards group test

(AOpen, Asus, Leadtek, Sapphire, Sapphire, XFX)

Features table

(23/03/2005)

Model	Aopen Aeolus 6200	Asus Extreme N6600GT	Leadtek WinFast PX6600TD	Sapphire X600XT VIVO	Sapphire Hybrid X700 Pro	XFX GeForce 6200
Price inc. VAT	£89	£149	£95	£115	£135	£70
Graphics chip	GeForce 6200	GeForce 6600GT	GeForce 6600	Radeon X600XT	Radeon X700 Pro	GeForce 6200
Memory	256MB	128MB	128MB	128MB	256MB	128MB
PCI Express support	x16	x16	x16	x16	x16	x16
SLI support	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Driver used in testing	Forceware 71.40	Forceware 71.40	Forceware 71.40	Catalyst 4.11	Catalyst 4.11	Forceware 71.40
DirectX support	DirectX 9.0c	DirectX 9.0c	DirectX 9.0c	DirectX 9.0b	DirectX 9.0b	DirectX 9.0c
Pixel Shader support	3.0	3.0	3.0	2.0b	2.0b	3.0
Vertex Shader support	3.0	3.0	3.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
Shader Model support	3.0	3.0	3.0	2.0b	2.0b	3.0
Number of Pixel Pipelines	4	8	8	4	8	4
Width of memory controller	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Standard Core Speed	300MHz	500MHz	300MHz	500MHz	425MHz	300MHz
Standard Memory Speed	665MHz	1GHz	550MHz	730MHz	864MHz	550MHz
Standard Memory Bandwidth	10.6GB/ second	16GB/ second	8.8GB/ second	11.7GB/ second	13.8GB/ second	8.8GB/ second
Overclocking utility	Coolbits	Asus SmartDoctor	WinFox II	Redline	Redline	Not tested
Overclocked Core Speed	370MHz	550MHz	400MHz	570MHz	439MHz	Not tested
Overclocked Memory Speed	965MHz	1.1GHz	720MHZ	800MHz	878MHz	Not tested
Video in/Video out	No/Yes	No/Yes	No/Yes	Yes/Yes	No/Yes	No/Yes
Monitor ouputs	VGA, DVI-I	VGA, DVI-I	VGA, DVI-I	VGA, DVI-I	VGA, DVI-I	VGA, DVI-I

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