Today we got our hands on both an ATI X1800XL and NVIDIA 7800GT, so we decided to benchmark each of these cards with the same configuration to see what happens and how much bang you get for your buck.

We used the same PC to run both test so that all differences will be based on the video cards abilities. Our test PC was built using one AMD Athlon X2 processor and 2GB of memory. The hard drive was a SATA WD 400GB with Windows XP installed. No over-clocking was done prior to testing the video card or motherboard so that it only shows what these cards are capable of right out of the box.

Here is what we got!
Below is the 7800GT's Score.

Below is the x1800xl's Score.

WOW! Only 361 point difference. Pretty close!