information on a good but somewhat cheap card

[tacos4me]

Just ran 3Dmark at 600/550 and came out with 4902 3dmarks.. maby not quite a 9700.. but thats not bad for a 9600xt:cheers:

[Wiggo]

Just ran 3Dmark at 600/550 and came out with 4902 3dmarks.. maby not quite a 9700.. but thats not bad for a 9600xt:cheers:

I hope that that was 3DMark'03 and not 3DMark'01. :?:

[tacos4me]

I hope that that was 3DMark'03 and not 3DMark'01.

Yeah, 03:cheers:

[Wiggo]

Yeah, 03:cheers:

Just checkin' as there's been a few dipsticks in these forums of late who may get the wrong idea. :D

[Beefy]

Just ran 3Dmark at 600/550 and came out with 4902 3dmarks.. maby not quite a 9700.. but thats not bad for a 9600xt:cheers:

Even if you matched clock speed to a 9700, you still wouldn't get the same performance... and not everyone overclocks.

[Wiggo]

Even if you matched clock speed to a 9700, you still wouldn't get the same performance... and not everyone overclocks.

Yep 8 texture pipelines and 256-bit memory bus vs. 4 texture pipelines and 128-bit memory bus even at a higher core speed isn't really a match.

<small>Edited by Wiggo</small>

[tacos4me]

2 texture pipelines

theres 4 all 9600s do, and yes 128bit memory...:and the 9700s have 8 pipelines:cheers:

[Wiggo]

I was a little sore and tired when I posted that but yes the fact is that the R9700 carries twice the pipelines and memory bus as the R9600 does. :p