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| The Bottom Line | Nvidia's new GeForce 9800 GTX chip is fast enough, but if your PC is SLI-capable you can spend just a little more and get a significantly better high-resolution gaming experience. Consider your options carefully before upgrading to this card. | This one is easy. Nvidia's GeForce 8800 GTX not only beats ATI to market with its next-gen 3D graphics hardware, it also eliminates ATI's image-quality advantage in current-generation titles. Throw in its sheer horsepower, and Nvidia gives the high-end enthusiast every reason to make this purchase. | Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295 is the single fastest 3D card on the market, and for a relatively aggressive price. Added bonuses like power efficiency and PhysX support sweeten the deal, but even without those extra benefits, we'd still recommend this card for its processing power and comparative value. | AMD's new ATI Radeon HD 4850 is a solid midrange 3D card that will run pretty much anything, and it boasts some forward-looking features to boot. It might be worth waiting for the price to drop just a bit, at which point this card will become much more attractive. | Even if it's a relative power hog, the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 brings so much speed and utility to the table it's hard for us to recommend another midrange 3D card. Only the particularly power conscious or those who play games with known multichip scaling issues should look elsewhere. |
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| Max resolution (external) | 2560 x 1600 | Info unavailable | 2560 x 1600 | 2560 x 1600 | 2560 x 1600 |
| Video RAM installed | 512 MB | Info unavailable | 1792 MB | 512 MB | 2 GB |
| Interface type | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | Info unavailable | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 | PCI Express 2.0 x16 |
| API Supported | DirectX 10 OpenGL 2.1 | Info unavailable | DirectX 10 OpenGL 2.1 | OpenGL 2.1 DirectX 10.1 | OpenGL 2.0 DirectX 10.1 |
| Video interface(s) provided | DVI-I (dual link) HDTV output | Info unavailable | DVI-I (dual link) HDMI | DVI-I (dual link) VGA HDMI HDTV output | DVI-I HDMI HDTV output |
| Graphics Processor | NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX | Info unavailable | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 | ATI Radeon HD 4850 | ATI Radeon HD 4850 |
| Max monitors supported | Info unavailable | Info unavailable | Info unavailable | 2 | Info unavailable |
| Compatibility | PC | Info unavailable | PC | PC | PC |
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