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| Sapphire Ultimate RADEON 9600XT Edition and ASUS RADEON 9600XT ASUS in Wonder? .... A Flawless Sapphire | |
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(Review by MS, February 18, 2004) |
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ASUS RADEON 9600XT At: |
The ATI 9600XT series is built around the RV360 core featuring two vertex units and four pixel pipleines with one texture units each. At first glance, this may sound a bit anemic, but it only takes one brief glance at the comparable specs to see where the high clock speed of the RV360 compensates for the lower number of execution units. In the spirit of the current line of ATI product, the RV360 core offers full support for pixel shader 2.0 output, compliance with the DX9.0 specifications dictate a minimum of floating point precision 3D-texturing units. Memory bandwidth is conserved by means of the 24x Z-compression.
One feature setting apart the RV960 core from any other ATI GPU is the fact that the RV360 is manufactured using a 130 nm interconnect process using low-K dielectric substrate to reduce leakage currents. The result is a core that is specked to run at 500 MHz clock rate and yet does neither require excess power nor cooling. The latter is an issue not to be underestimated, after all, at least one nail in the coffin of the GFFX5800 was its wind-tunnel-like acoustics.
RADEON 9600XT Technology At One Glance
Graphics Technology
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Features
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Some technical specs in comparison with other RADEONs and GeForce FX
| Core Clock [MHz] | Pixel Pipelines | Texture Units/Pixel Pipeline | Fill Rate (Single) [MPixels/sec] | Fill Rate (Multi) [MTexels/sec] | Memory Clock [Mbps] | Memory Bus Width | Memory Bandwidth [GB/s] | |
| RADEON 9600 SE | 325 | 4 | 1 | 1300 | 1300 | 200 | 64 | 3.2 |
| RADEON 9600 XT | 500 | 4 | 1 | 2000 | 2000 | 600 | 128 | 9.6 |
| RADEON 9700 | 325 | 8 | 1 | 2600 | 2600 | 620 | 256 | 19.84 |
| RADEON 9800 | 380 | 8 | 1 | 3040 | 3040 | 680 | 256 | 21.8 |
| ASUS RADEON 9800 XT | 410 | 8 | 1 | 3280 | 3280 | 730 | 256 | 23.36 |
| GeForce FX5900 Ultra | 450 | 4 | 2 | 1800 | 3600 | 850 | 256 | 27.2 |
| GeForce FX5950 Ultra | 475 | 4 | 2 | 1900 | 3800 | 950 | 256 | 30.4 |
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