Which 9800Pro is better?

[Cherub]

I have two cards, and will keep one for myself, but I'm not sure which is better:

425 core / 369 (738 DDR) mem
407 core / 385 (770 DDR) mem

Both seem to have the same or very similar AGP bus tolerances. Both are stock now, and the "winner" will get ramsinks and watercooling for the GPU.

 

[Regs]

Neither are better.

Just as long as they both use the same rated ram, flip a coin.

 

[McArra]

I'd get the first one. Core makes higher difference than ram.

 

[VIAN]

get the one with the nicer color board

 

[Cherub]

I think I should have asked my question with a little more detail. I have two identical "Made by ATI" cards. The difference is that one has a more overclockable core while the other has more overclockable memory. The question is really which is more important, memory or core speed.

I plan a core and memory voltmod, the core will be watercooled, and the memory will get heat sinks, so there should be more room to exploit either way. I just need to make a decision on which card to keep based on these preliminary stock overclocks.

 

[high]

Ram makes more of a difference than Core so keep the second one and oc more 🙂

 

[sugarkang]

higher clocked gpu beats faster memory anyday.

 

[Cherub]

Ram makes more of a difference than Core so keep the second one and oc more

higher clocked gpu beats faster memory anyday

Wow: simultaneous, completely opposite responses!

 

[Atlantean]

They are both good. Run 3dmark 2003 on both of them and keep whichever one gets a higher score. Then you have bragging rights for a better 3dmark score.

 

[Corporate Thug]

if both have 2.8ns samsung, get the first

 

[Cherub]

if both have 2.8ns samsung, get the first

Why?

 

[GreatDaleness]

Originally posted by: Cherub

if both have 2.8ns samsung, get the first

Why?

Straight from Anand

The difference between the next generation of games and what we've seen in the past is that the performance of one game is much less indicative of the performance of the rest of the market; as you'll see, we're no longer memory bandwidth bound - now we're going to finally start dealing with games whose pixel shader programs and how they are handled by the execution units of the GPU will determine performance.

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