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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Shane on February 04, 2003, 12:22:25 AM

Title: 9700 controller speed question
Post by: Shane on February 04, 2003, 12:22:25 AM

looking at new vid card... both radeon 9700 (Tx vs. Pro) the only difference i see is the controller speed...  is there much of a difference?

128 MB DDR ATI Radeon 9700 TX with DVI and TV-Out

controller speed 263MHz

128 MB DDR ATI Radeon 9700 Pro with DVI and TV-Out

controller speed 324MHz


thx.

Title: 9700 controller speed question
Post by: Pfunk on February 04, 2003, 12:42:44 AM

only difference b/t 9700 non pro and pro is core clock speed and memory speed.  many people are flashing the bios and overclocking it to pro speeds.

Title: 9700 controller speed question
Post by: Shane on February 04, 2003, 02:22:16 AM

but what's the performance difference between them (non-overclocked)?

Title: 9700 controller speed question
Post by: Pfunk on February 04, 2003, 10:45:47 AM

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1656&p=18