Did Someone Say Radeon X800 XL Core?
The ATI ‘R430’ core found on the PowerColor X800 GTO videocard is the same 0.11 micron, 160 million transistor core used with Radeon X800 XL videocards. With the PowerColor card however, four rendering pipelines are disabled so the X800 GTO only has access to 12 pipelines instead of the full 16 available to the X800 XL. The indicators seem to be that the X800 GTO is ‘hard locked’, so software or videocard BIOS hacks will not be capable of re-enabling the remaining pipelines. This should also tell enthusiasts that the PowerColor X800 GTO will be a challenging card to overclock. The Radeon X800 XL VPU is notorious when it comes to pushing it past its stock speeds, and as we’re just about to show you the PowerColor X800 GTO puts up quite a fight too!
