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**Praetor** · 07-11-2004, 08:02 PM

I just did a quick lookup of ATI's card line-up and found this:

9800 Series
256bit memory Interface
AGP8x
Support for Smartshader 2.1
Support for HyperZ III+
8 pipelines
4 shaders

X600 Series
128bit memory interface
x16 PCI-X (theoreitcally AGP16X)
Support for Smartshader 2.0
Support for HyperZ III
4 pipelines
2 shaders

Now unless Im mistaken, that's a case of a top generation-old card beating the snot out of a midrange current generation card -- since maybe the GF2Ultra vs GF3Baseline, that's not happened... troubling that ATI would choose to do that

07-11-2004, 08:02 PM	#6 (permalink)
Praetor Administrator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 19,954	I just did a quick lookup of ATI's card line-up and found this: 9800 Series 256bit memory Interface AGP8x Support for Smartshader 2.1 Support for HyperZ III+ 8 pipelines 4 shaders X600 Series 128bit memory interface x16 PCI-X (theoreitcally AGP16X) Support for Smartshader 2.0 Support for HyperZ III 4 pipelines 2 shaders Now unless Im mistaken, that's a case of a top generation-old card beating the snot out of a midrange current generation card -- since maybe the GF2Ultra vs GF3Baseline, that's not happened... troubling that ATI would choose to do that __________________ ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8 4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400 5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10 OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI