Today Nordic Hardware takes a look at 7 Radeon 9800 Pro cards, where 2 boards are reference boards from ATI and the 5 others are retail products. These are just about the fastest videocards you can get your hands on right now. ATI recently launched their 256 MB version of the Radeon 9800 Pro and it's in here as well, but the focus remains on the retail products.
Read More... When it comes to ATIs new 256 MB board I can't really say that I'm impressed. Initial rumors indicated that this board would run faster than the 128 MB version but the only thing clocked higher is the memory and this is only to defeat the added latency of using DDR-II. In some few odd cases the extra 128 MB VRAM does make a difference though but these cases are few and far between.
You can find the 13 pages of action packed high end videocard shootout at Nordic Hardware.
Read More... When it comes to ATIs new 256 MB board I can't really say that I'm impressed. Initial rumors indicated that this board would run faster than the 128 MB version but the only thing clocked higher is the memory and this is only to defeat the added latency of using DDR-II. In some few odd cases the extra 128 MB VRAM does make a difference though but these cases are few and far between.
You can find the 13 pages of action packed high end videocard shootout at Nordic Hardware.
