Asus V9999 GE (6800) and Sapphire X800 Pro

Driverheaven has a comparison between the two top performing “budget” cards. These are the lowest priced high end video cards available. I definitely like the blue PCBs.

“The Asus is quite different from most 6800 non ultra’s, for starters there is 256mb of DDR3 compared to 128mb DDR on other non ultra’s. The card also has a second molex connector like the GT and Ultra’s. Finally it uses the 2 slot cooler where as most non ultra’s use a 1 slot cooler…The Sapphire card follows the ATI reference design almost to the letter. Clockspeeds are set at 475mhz core 900mhz memory and 256mb of DDR3 is used. As with all X800pro’s this card has 12pipes.”

Recovered from an Internet Archive snapshot of the InsaneTek front page.