High Quality

So far we have seen both the Connect 3D 9600XT in 128mb form pull just ahead of the Sapphire 256mb model in about every bench, granted by only a few frames but it is consistent.  One last try to see if we can establish any practical difference between the two cards.  Maxing out the FSAA to 6x and taking the Anisotropic Filtering to 16x, let's rerun UT2003 and Sam in quality mode and see what we will see.

Unfortunately, it is more of the same.  The extra 128mb of memory doesn't seem to be doing much does it?

Overclocking

To push the limits of the Sapphire 9600 XT, we employed the use of PowerStrip.  The stock settings we observed were 500MHz on the core and 297MHz (594MHz) on the memory.  Slowly working our way north, we hit the wall of clean display at 577MHz on the core and 346MHz (692MHz) on the memory.  Not too shabby I'd say.  Clean display is defined as zero perceivable visual anomalies or artifacts.  Let's revisit UT2003 and see what our newly found frequencies can do.

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Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The Card
Page 3 - Benchmarks UT2003
Page 4 - Benchmarks Serious Sam, Code Creatures, RTCW, AquaMark
Page 5 - Max Quality and Overclocking
Page 6 - Conclusion 

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