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9600XT clocked faster then 9800Pro, wouldn't be better would it?

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Silent Frog

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I have a 9600XT overclocked at 565CORE and 351RAM. The 9800Pro is 380CORE and 340RAM. My card wouldn't be faster then that one would it. Is it just a better core? or what? that makes it faster.
 
the 9600xt is 128bit (4 pipelines).... the 9800pro is 256bit (8 pipelines).... basically the 256bit cards can access memory twice as fast as the 128bit..... so no matter what you do with a 9600xt it will never be as powerful as a 9800pro or a 9700pro or any other 256bit card.
 
Silent Frog said:
I have a 9600XT overclocked at 565CORE and 351RAM. The 9800Pro is 380CORE and 340RAM. My card wouldn't be faster then that one would it. Is it just a better core? or what? that makes it faster.

Bench with 3Dmark03........ then we can tell... I guess.
 
The 9800's core and ram can produce near double the results per clock, due to it having 256bit ram an an 8pipe core.
 
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