Confused about best card: Radeon 9800 SE or 9600 XT?!!..

[new2AMD]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
9800xt>9800Pro>9800>9600xt>9500Pro>9600pro>9800SE>9600>9500>8500>9100>9000=9200>7500>7000=RadeonVE

The 9500Pro performs better than the 9600Pro?

but it doesnt do dx9 like the 9600pro correct?

 

[kylebisme]

incorrect.

 

[new2AMD]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
incorrect.

I thought 9600 was the first to support dx9. A 9500 can be modded to handle it?

 

[jm0ris0n]

Any 9500 or higher card is DX9 compliant.

 

[Mingon]

Well if you look at just the specs on paper it alone it seems a 9600xt should be faster. They both have 4 pipelines, but the 9600xt has a higher core clock, which would give it more fillrate. Their memory bandwidth would be similar if you were comparing the 128 bit version of the 9800se. If you were comparing the 256 bit version, it would be considerably more than that of a 9600xt, but the 9800 se often isn't fast enough to make use of the extra bandwidth. If you look at benchmarks then the 9600xt is usually faster.

the 9600 has no hierachial (sp?) z

 

[Schadenfroh]

revised by popular request

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