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ST|FFY

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I've been looking at the 9600XT and the 9800Pro for a while now and I've figured out that the 9800Pro is the ultimate card for now and that it will destroy the 9600XT in almost anything. But my question is: whats up with the core speed and memory speeds?

This is from newegg; Chipset/Core Speed: ATI RADEON 9800PRO/380MHz
Memory/Effective Speed: 128MB DDR/680MHz

Chipset/Core Speed: ATI RADEON 9600XT/500MHz
Memory/Effective Speed: 128MB DDR/600MHz

so why does the 9600XT have a higher core speed than the 9800Pro?
 
The 9600xt has half the pipelines of the the 9800 pro. 4 vs 8. Due to this, the core runs at a higher speed with fewer pipelines. The 9600 only has a 128 bit memory bus, the 9800pro has a 256 and the 9600 only has 2 geometry engines vs 9800pro 4.

Hence the core is clocked higher to help makeup for these differences
 
oh ok, so is it sorta like saying that 1 Mhz on the 9800Pro is like 2Mhz on the 9600XT?
 
Originally posted by ST|FFY
oh ok, so is it sorta like saying that 1 Mhz on the 9800Pro is like 2Mhz on the 9600XT?
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Sorta, but not exactly ;)

It's kind of like having more floating point units on your CPU (AMD vs Intel), though that's not the whole story.
 
Originally posted by Icewindius
Boy aint that the truth. No wonder I can't remember the OSI layer model.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

The mnemonics "People Design Networks To Send Packets Accurately", "Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away", and "All People Seem To Need Data Processing" may help you remember the layers.

==>Lazn
 
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