HOW DO I FIND OUT MY RADEON RAM SPEED?

[Alex]

hey y'all i bought a radeon 64mb vivo recently but im not sure if i'll keep it at all...

i heard that there are two versions, one with 5.5ns ram and the other with 5.0ns ram... and that the one with 5.0 is just as good as a geforce2 pro... well?

is there any way that i can find out how fast the ram is? because if its not 5.0 i think ill resell it...

thx a lot!

 

[The_Lurker]

Go to the chip and look for markins at the end of a code, something like 5n, 5t, etc etc. Also, with the 5.5ns, you can try oc'ing it to SE speeds (250/230 i believe) and see how it works.

 

[EMAN]

To find it look at the memory chips. If you can find any 5.

 

[Alex]

cool! thx guys!

and am i right to believe that a radeon 64 vivo with 5ns ram is just as good if not better than a gf2 pro at 3d games?

 

[Rand]

<< cool! thx guys!

and am i right to believe that a radeon 64 vivo with 5ns ram is just as good if not better than a gf2 pro at 3d games? >>



Even the Radeon 7500 is only about equal to a RadeonSE (Radeon w/5ns RAM) so I sincerely doubt that a Radeon SE could match it in most cases. more accurately it's somewhere between a GF2 GTS and a GF2 Pro in performance.

 

[Killrose]

Geforce2 Pro will be faster across the board than any Radeon in probably all video benches. However at high resolutions, 32bit, in some of the benches, just as good.

 

[Alex]

hmmmm so should i keep the radeon or trade for geforce?

i run all games @ 1024x768 32bit color mostly

 

[MaxImuMAdVaNtAgE]

radeons have very good 2d and 3d image quality. if you want huge frame rates (who doesn't) and super-smooth motion no matter what go with the gforce. once you hit a certain frame rate though any more is just an impressive number. for that reason i chose a radeon all in wonder with 32mb ddr. i am evry happy with the image quality and features, even if the frame rates are "low."

MaxImuM

 

[Alex]

yeah i guess... i heard geforce 2d is shi*ty ... i`ll check my radeon ram.... if its 5ns im installing it right now!

 

[EMAN]

I have a radeon vivo SE.

Here are some benchmarks overclocked with 900mhz @ 1050mhz

link

 

[Alex]

thx

well i looked at my cards ram things and well it says "5T" and has a serial number somehting like "0005000" im cant remember fully

does this mean i have an SE? cuz my manual says VE, but i dont expect that to be accurate as manuals are mass-printed...

also, how would i go about overclocking it?

 

[DClark]

The easiest way is to look at the brand of ram. The 5ns ram ATi used is ESMT (EliteMT) ram; The 5.5ns ram used in the original Radeon 64mb DDR is made by Hyundai.

 

[Alex]

sweet! it says elitemt!!