9600 PRO identification

[palinorus]

I recently purchased a computer with the ATI 9600 PRO graphics card. However, any mention of this card in my computer shows that I have a "9600 Series Card". How I do make sure that I have the "PRO" version vs the "non-PRO" version?

 

[TheRod]

Refer to this table :
<A HREF="http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9600/radeon9600pro/compare.html" target="_new">http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9600/radeon9600pro/compare.html</A>

By the way, you can read your GPU and memory speed with 3rd party applications like Radeonator.

To D/L Radeonator : <A HREF="http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/1/12-1-16.shtml" target="_new">http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/1/12-1-16.shtml</A>

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[palinorus]

Thanks for the info. Are there any other 3rd party applications? I'm having some trouble downloading Radeonator.

 

[TheRod]

Rage3D tweak
<A HREF="http://www.rage3d.com/index.php?node=r3dtweak" target="_new">http://www.rage3d.com/index.php?node=r3dtweak</A>

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[palinorus]

Used Rage3D Tweak to test the speed of my 9600 PRO:
Core Clock: 400MHz
Memory Clock: 200MHz

When I compared against ATI's website, shouldn't my memory speed be 600MHz? Am I reading it incorrectly?

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

The you do not have a pro, you have a PRO LITE or whatever the hell GigaPuke and Powercolor call them.

The core is at PRO speeds, but the memory is probably crappy TSOP memory.

A real pro is 400/300(600). Remember it's Double Data Rate, so the effective speed of 300mhz is (600)mhz, and 200 mhz is (400)mhz. Check the front page of this forum and look at my thread at the top. I have posted a bunch of links to benchmarks with speed info. Like on the Aquamark links to see the posted speeds.

If you can see your card check the memory. Is the memory on it more squarish or more rectangular? IF you can read the memory modules that would be even better.

Small square = PRO BGA
Larger Rectangle = non pro TSOP (P.O.S.).


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[Crashman]

It sounds like you have the PowerColor 9600 Pro EZ, which comes with very slow RAM. It may in fact be 4ns RAM which could be overclocked to its rated 250MHz (DDR500), but will never touch the full Pro card in performance.

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[BirdRobin]

Definately a Powercolour Pro EZ. But its not a real pro mind you.

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