Radeon agp suggestions
by Sam3d · in Hardware Issues · 08/26/2006 (4:05 pm) · 4 replies
My Radeon 9800 Pro is dying (blue hatching in the background).
Great card for ~3 years.
Anyone have suggestions on a good replacement from the latest crop of ATI cards for XP?
I want AGP, don't care about TV tuner, and use a Shuttle box so length may be an issue.
Seems like the X700 PRO AGP 256 and X1300 PRO AGP 256 are popular.... ?
Thanks.
edit - went with the X1300, nice.
Great card for ~3 years.
Anyone have suggestions on a good replacement from the latest crop of ATI cards for XP?
I want AGP, don't care about TV tuner, and use a Shuttle box so length may be an issue.
Seems like the X700 PRO AGP 256 and X1300 PRO AGP 256 are popular.... ?
Thanks.
edit - went with the X1300, nice.
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#2
But I've had problems in the past in getting the 'best' card and then developing content that performs poorly on the lesser cards that most people have.
09/04/2006 (3:59 pm)
Yes, the Radeon 1800XT is great... and expensive. But I've had problems in the past in getting the 'best' card and then developing content that performs poorly on the lesser cards that most people have.
#3
it has a 600 MHz/800 MHz Core/memory clock but only 4 Pixels Per Clock ? it's $129.00us
This card has SM 3.0
Could someone explain what "Pixels Per Clock" is ?
And more important, what impact does this have on render quality
speed, shading, memory speed, fill, HDRL rendering etc.
Can this feature be a bottleneck ? :)
I assume that Pixels Per Clock is 4 pixels written to the frame buffer per clock cycle,
and that is a so-called "4x2" configuration ? is that right ?
That means that this the card would have 4 pixel pipelines ?
Now look at the Radeon X800 it's 400/700 clock/mem @ 256 bits
but it has 12 Pixels Per Clock. it's only $199.00
Would this card blow away the X1300 pro because of ppc ?
What would the preformance difference be ?
A Radeon 9800 accesses its memory using a 256-bit interface
and processes eight pixels per clock pulse, while the Radeon 9600 Pro
accesses its memory using a 128-bit interface and processes four pixels
per clock pulse. This means that memory access and processing performance
of the Radeon 9800 would the double of that of the Radeon 9600 Pro if they
were working at the same clock. In other words, a Radeon 9600 Pro would have
work at 650 MHz and access the memory at 1.360 MHz to have the same performance
of the Radeon 9800.
And can you overclock a Radeon 9800 ?
-Areal
09/05/2006 (12:24 pm)
Ok, what about a Radeon X1300 Pro - it has 3 memory interface options 128/64/32 bitsit has a 600 MHz/800 MHz Core/memory clock but only 4 Pixels Per Clock ? it's $129.00us
This card has SM 3.0
Could someone explain what "Pixels Per Clock" is ?
And more important, what impact does this have on render quality
speed, shading, memory speed, fill, HDRL rendering etc.
Can this feature be a bottleneck ? :)
I assume that Pixels Per Clock is 4 pixels written to the frame buffer per clock cycle,
and that is a so-called "4x2" configuration ? is that right ?
That means that this the card would have 4 pixel pipelines ?
Now look at the Radeon X800 it's 400/700 clock/mem @ 256 bits
but it has 12 Pixels Per Clock. it's only $199.00
Would this card blow away the X1300 pro because of ppc ?
What would the preformance difference be ?
A Radeon 9800 accesses its memory using a 256-bit interface
and processes eight pixels per clock pulse, while the Radeon 9600 Pro
accesses its memory using a 128-bit interface and processes four pixels
per clock pulse. This means that memory access and processing performance
of the Radeon 9800 would the double of that of the Radeon 9600 Pro if they
were working at the same clock. In other words, a Radeon 9600 Pro would have
work at 650 MHz and access the memory at 1.360 MHz to have the same performance
of the Radeon 9800.
And can you overclock a Radeon 9800 ?
-Areal
Torque Owner Areal Person
Radeon 1800XT
&
nVidia 6800XT
Both have SM 3.0