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Originally posted by GrimReaper+Feb 25 2005, 02:40 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (GrimReaper @ Feb 25 2005, 02:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--{White_Knight}@Feb 25 2005, 03:20 PM
How many pipelines does the 9800 XT have? I know the 9700 Pro has 8 and think the 6600 GT has 8. I guess 12 would be the sweet spot but havent seen any cheap cards around that offer 12 as standard. Even if I had the cash I would never give Radeon or Nvidia £400 for a card thats superseeded every 6 mnths, there aren't enough AAA releases on PC per year to justify the cost, oh unless your obsessed with your 3D Mark Score* :bucky!:
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Radeon 9800XT has eight pipelines.
The better things are the Memory Bandwidth and the extra vertex pipeline. (Four in total compare to three of NVIDIA's)
Moreover the use of 256-bit Memory Bus Width (compared to NVIDIA's 128-bit)
The thing that's worse is the memory type, simple DDR, when NVIDIA uses GDDR3 thus having higher clock rates for memory. However, ATI uses 256-bit, therefore the Bandwidth doubled, giving a much higher result.
If you can over clock it over than the original fill rate of NVIDIA's 6600GT, your card will be better ;)
...However I recommend having only up to 128 MB for that DDR type :bucky!: ... with NVIDIA's you can grab the 256MB version and over clock it, getting better results than ATI's 9800XT DDR memory type. [/b][/quote]
Thanks for the advice Grim, I haven't seen any 6600GT variants with 256MB memory on-board? If the X800 Pro boards dropped £100 i would be sorted but thats not going to happen just yet
