Conclusions

They say numbers don't lie, and I believe that includes benchmarks as well: the card is wicked fast, and its owners are going to enjoy extreme speeds coupled with extreme image quality. What we liked about the card is the minimum performance penalty we got as we upped the Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering levels; a “feature” that characterizes the entire X1000 series of cards by ATI, and is attributed to the advanced memory controller these cards have. Club3D has got a winner in their hands, since as we saw from the benchmarks, the card certainly delivers.

Unfortunately if you expected to overclock this card to hell and back, you'll be sorely disappointed, since the overclock we got was modest at best, with end results that were in line with the clock increases we got. Lost Coast seemed to gain the most performance increase, but overall we noticed that, while average fps didn't change much, the overall feel was much smoother when we overclocked the card.

So the question is, is this card worth your hard-earned money? The answer is a definite yes, but only if you want the absolute best in performance right now. If you are looking for a card that will cost you less and will let you overclock it to higher levels, Club3D’s Radeon X1900 XT model is a much more attractive buy in our eyes.

These days you can find it 50 pounds (or more) cheaper and we are willing to bet that it will overclock almost to the levels our XTX was able to overclock. So all in all, what we have here is a super-fast card, coming from a vendor that has never given us troubles in the past, and is known for its quality products. If that's not a winning combination, I don't know what is.

Many thanks to Club3D for providing the card in such a short notice.