An interesting concept But performance is determined by drivers and ultimately it smacks of gimmick.

A 21" widescreen LCD that hits the sweet spot for gaming.

The X800XT PE is ATI's flagship technology, and its main change over the standard X800 XT is a core frequency increase from 500MHz to 520MHz, and a memory increase from 500MHz to 560MHz. Consequently, it performs better than the standard X800 XT's, topping all the benchmarks and achieving a phenomenal 26588 marks in 3DMark01 in 1024 x 768.

TI's current workstation-class 3D graphics accelerators - dubbed X1 - are the company's latest effort to keep a hand in the high-end 3D graphics market. Consumer-level 3D hardware is now massively powerful, of course, but for all-out 3D performance and rock-solid driver integration you need a card dedicated to the purpose, and ATI claims the X1-128 is it.

Missing out on an award by a hair's breadth, MSI blew the other cards away in most departments.

In the workstation graphics market, the name 3Dlabs carries considerable weight, and its Wildcat III series of OpenGL cards continues to be dominating in the high-end workspace. However, in the mid-range sector, NVIDIAs Quadro2 and Quadro4, and ATIs FireGL 8800 have made serious inroads. The new Wildcat VP870 looks set to redress the balance, thanks to a brand-new GPU that takes programmability to a new level.

The GeForce3 chip is quite an incredible thing.

3Dlabs has a strong reputation amongst the professional graphics community for producing high performance and high quality chipsets and graphics cards. The Oxygen range spans the low to high-end of the professional OpenGL market, with the GVX1 falling in the middle of this range.

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