A Tale Of Two Radeons

[Ignatz]

Hi all,

The Radeons 9700 Pro 128MB and 9600XT 256MB are almost identical in price,
which would you choose?

Thanks!

Ken

 

[PrayForDeath]

9700 Pro ofcourse, it has almost double the performance of the 9600XT, and those 256MB rams are just for marketing

 

[Lonyo]

Radeon 9700 Pro, it is much better.

The 9600XT will barely make use of 256MB, the 9700Pro is 8 pipelines and 256 bit memory bus, 9600XT is 4 pipes and 128 bit memory bus.
The 9700Pro outperforms it, ignore the RAM amount, it means nothing with these cards.

 

[jiffylube1024]

9700 Pro - it's way faster. 8 pipelines vs 4 and slower memory bandwidth as well.

 

[Ignatz]

Thanks for the input guys, I think I'm arriving at the conclusion that this might have been what cha call a "stupid question".

Can you tell I'm not well versed in vid cards?

Thanks again,

Ken

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Ignatz
Thanks for the input guys, I think I'm arriving at the conclusion that this might have been what cha call a "stupid question".

Can you tell I'm not well versed in vid cards?

Thanks again,

Ken

I wouldn't call that a stupid question. If anything it's stupid (or maybe smart?) marketing on ATI's part. People who aren't up on video card technology will probably jump on a 256meg card when they see it next to a faster 128, for basically the same price. It would seem a better deal to most right?

I was @ Circuit City last week looking @ 9800's and I saw a 256 meg 9200 card, scary