Where the heck is the Radeon 9600?

[SickBeast]

I've been hearing about this card for months now, but where are the reviews? Any word on when we'll know how well this card performs?

 

[BoomAM]

It falls in line with the new ATI naming sceme, ie, faster than a 9500pro, but not as fast as a 9700.
As far as i can tell, its just a higher clocked 9500pro built on the 0.13 process. And can be passivly cooled. It still has the 128bit memory bus though.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I just read today taht it got delayed... *sigh*

I've also heard that it will only have 4 rendering pipelines or whatever, half what the 9500 pro has. I get the feeling the 9500 Pro will perform better.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
I just read today taht it got delayed... *sigh*

I've also heard that it will only have 4 rendering pipelines or whatever, half what the 9500 pro has. I get the feeling the 9500 Pro will perform better.

Agreed.

 

[TheRealShaman]

X-Bit Labs has a post on this matter today..Check it out here.

 

[Richdog]

Yup 9500 Pro will most likely perform better in advanced games.

 

[chsh1ca]

Well, a delay of a few months is well worth it with what is essentially ATI's hammering out of their 130 nanometer process.

I felt the same about nVidia's delay of the GeForce FX: I'd rather they get the process right so the failure rate isn't high than have them release something buggy as hell. I may have to wait, but I am patient.

Getting the 9600 Pro right is definitely important to ATI, as I believe that is going to probably be the card that everyone will look back on as making/breaking them from the updated R300 line. If the R9600Pro can outperform the FX5600Ultra, then that's a win for ATI with the whole line, IMHO.