128bit 9550 vs. 128bit 9600SE

[odin8yoshi]

I was thinking the 9550 was better then the 9600SE but then i went to looking at the clocks of both cards and the 9600se has a much higher core speed, and slightly less memory speed..with the exact same other specs. So wich of these would give better performance, especially after overclocked, could the 9550 fill the gap between the two with stock cooling (except with some AS5 maybe)?

9600SE
4 pipes
128bit
325core/365mem

9550
4 pipes 128bit
250core/400mem

And they have the same R350 core..

[E_tron]

I would take my chances and go with the 9550, because the GPU has a greater overclocking potential than the memory. It would be reasonable to conclude that the 9550 can reach at least 325mhz.

[odin8yoshi]

Thats what ive been thinking myself..that overclocked the 9550 should have a slight edge. Any other opinions appreciated : )

[Quailane]

And they have the same R350 core..
RV350 core. The 9600 is just better. The extra clock speed is good. Are you sure the memory is 128-bit? I thought the 9600se had 64-bit memory. Are you also sure that they didn't just get the crappy cores that couldn't run as 9600's and use them as 9550's? I bet the memory on both is 5ns. That means 200Mhz. Just because one has it running at spec and the other below means nothing. ATI uses 5ns ram on all of their low end cards, so I bet the memory overclocks the same.