Given that they're both playing in the slightly sub-L300 price range, the 6800 GT offers up compelling performance, matching or besting the X800 PRO in almost all of the tests, and when it's not beating the X800 PRO it's very close. With better OpenGL performance from the X800 PRO it'd be tempting to split the recommendation between the two, but at the time of writing the GT definitely gets my personal nod over the X800 PRO.

The performance of the plain 6800 comes in just where it should, with around 70% of the GT's performance in most cases. If NVIDIA are able to tweak the 128MB texture/data overflow case in a few apps, the 6800 looks great for those looking to spend around L200. It's usefully faster than a 9800XT in most DX9-class titles.

The 6800 Ultra and Radeon X800 XT PE remain high-end curiousities at the time of writing. It's been some 2-3 months after their initial releases and you still cannot find a major retailer stocking more than a hundred or so of either, with batches selling out almost instantly. While the GT suffers the same problem just now, NVIDIA assure me, however you wish to take it, that the GT is just about to make a big splash at retail, with them getting much better yeilds on NV40 cores in the 350MHz range just now.