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Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on May 26, 2004 - 5:19 PM
Digit-life caught some interesting news today. There are Radeon 9800 Pro graphics cards on the market with a 128-bit memory bus, completely misleading the consumer. It basically cuts memory bandwith and thus performance in half. Sapphire is such a company that is selling them. Although Sapphire marks the box with a 128-bit specification most generic users don't have a clue what this means and thus can do for performance.
As you can see, they are designed similar (but not identically) to usual RADEON 9800SE-128bit/9500Pro products, feature TSOP chips, but clock rates are 325/580 MHz instead of PRO's 380/680 MHz. They are suitable for RADEON 9800 more.
In other words, there are three differences:
* PCB design
* TSOP memory chips
* Reduced clock rates
Nevertheless, the card is named Radeon 9800 PRO. It's good there's a sticker on box that notes of 128-bit bus, but the "Pro" suffix is not to mean reduced clock rates, so we are slightly anoyed by this. Very misleading.
Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on May 26, 2004 - 5:19 PM
Digit-life caught some interesting news today. There are Radeon 9800 Pro graphics cards on the market with a 128-bit memory bus, completely misleading the consumer. It basically cuts memory bandwith and thus performance in half. Sapphire is such a company that is selling them. Although Sapphire marks the box with a 128-bit specification most generic users don't have a clue what this means and thus can do for performance.
As you can see, they are designed similar (but not identically) to usual RADEON 9800SE-128bit/9500Pro products, feature TSOP chips, but clock rates are 325/580 MHz instead of PRO's 380/680 MHz. They are suitable for RADEON 9800 more.
In other words, there are three differences:
* PCB design
* TSOP memory chips
* Reduced clock rates
Nevertheless, the card is named Radeon 9800 PRO. It's good there's a sticker on box that notes of 128-bit bus, but the "Pro" suffix is not to mean reduced clock rates, so we are slightly anoyed by this. Very misleading.
They should be at the very least naming them 9800Pro lites or 9800ProEZ like the powercolor 9600ProEZ!