Which is better an Expensive Saphire 9600XT 256meg or Cheap Saphire 9800pro 128meg?

[Cytomax]

Hello all the difference between these cards in price is like $30 so i really dont care about that which is better and by better i mean faster obviously.........

ATI RADEON 9800PRO
Core: 380MHz
Memory/Effective Speed: 128MB DDR/680MHz


ATI RADEON 9600XT
Chipset/Core Speed: 500MHz
Memory/Effective Speed: 256MB DDR/600MHz

Thanks
Eddie

[tom10167]

Unquestionably the 9800. Here's a benchmark.






9800>9600

[football]

I don't even own my ATI card yet, but that's an easy one.

The 9800PRO is the next best card on the planet, other than the 9800xt.

The 9800PRO is better by a wide margin, laterz!

[craig588]

The r9600 is about half of the speed of the r9800. You dont need the extra ram, especially not with a budget card.

[=ACID RAIN=]

Funny, I recently sold my 9600XT to buy a 9800. Yes the 9800pro is way faster!

[Cytomax]

Thanks for all the input guys the reason i was worried was cuz i saw that the 9800pro has a smaller frequency in the core (380) as opposed to the 9600XT (500) however i noticed the 9800 pro has a faster memory (680) than the 9600XT (600)....

[Yuriman]

The 9800's core and ram are also twice as fast per clock as the 9600's.