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It had been far too long since the name PowerColor has been uttered from the mouth of one of our staff members prior to Simon�s review of the X800GTO16, but today that all changes with the second review in a month of a PowerColor video card. PowerColor is becoming an old pro in the video card market having been around for nearly a decade now. Established in 1997 under the larger company of Tul Corporation (formerly C.P. Technologies), PowerColor is responsible for manufacturing and developing the latest graphics technologies that come to market in their own ISO 9001 certified factory.



In a very short time, PowerColor has become a leading ATI graphics card producer and was rewarded in late 2004 becoming an ATI Platinum Partner. Striving to be best, PowerColor was quick to design and produce their line of X1 graphics cards including variations of the X1300, X1600, X1800, and most recently released X1900 that PowerColor offers a lifetime warranty on. The newest 90nM process releases from ATI have come with bated breath and today we look at the RV515 core in PowerColors version of the X1300 Pro Bravo VIVO.



The PowerColor X1300 Pro Bravo features 256MB of onboard GDDR3 memory with a 128bit Bus width. That memory is clocked at 400MHz for an effective speed of 800MHz. Paired with the highest core speed of the X1300 series at 600MHz, this little 4 Pixel Pipeline setup should pack a decent sized punch when compared to the older yet stronger X700 Pro and X800 GTO that I will be putting up against it. Even though this card is not of the higher ranking X1800 or even X1600, I am still expecting quite decent performance for an entry level graphics card.