Reviews

Radeon™ X1800 Series

“We're impressed with the Radeon X1800 XT. In the "money is no object" world of $400-and-up graphics cards, this is the fastest one we've yet tested. It's also great to see ATI offer a 512MB card on the high end, and at a reasonable $50 price premium over the 256MB card.”
ExtremeTech.com

“First, the X1800 XT, the king of ATI’s hill turns out to be faster than the 7800 GTX overall…”
PCPer.com

“The performance at the top of the line is fantastic. The X1800 XT… wallops the GTX in CoD2 and Far Cry.”
Neoseeker.com

“Radeon X1800 supports HDR with multisample AA; a feature which NVIDIA currently doesn’t provide with any of their GPUs.”
FiringSquad.com

Architecture:

“The architecture is interesting and adds enough features that NVIDIA will be the one playing catch up in that arena next time around.”
PCPer.com

Image Quality:

“Overall, we were impressed with the images produced by ATI's Adaptive AA. The X1800 XT produced some of the best images we have seen on the PC to date.”
HotHardware.com

“ATI's new high-quality anisotropic filtering modes had a negligible impact on performance, at least in FarCry. In fact, the difference in performance between the no-aniso tests, and the tests where 16x high-quality anisotropic filtering was applied was less than 10%.”
HotHardware.com

“With high quality AF enabled on the ATI Radeon X1800 XL, you will find the edge filtered much better than the GeForce 7800 GT, which is more blurry. The difference is quite visible in the second screenshot. With high quality AF enabled on the X1800 XL, the bottom of the angled wall is very smooth with no blurring. This really shows you the benefit of high quality AF; all angles are filtered "properly" with anisotropic filtering. This provides a very noticeable image quality benefit in game.”
HardOCP.com