So, if I just overclock my 9800 Pro it’s an XT then???

This is one of the questions we specifically wanted an answer too, and having some extra time with the card that we hadn’t planned for we were able to run some tests to see.

In the following benchmarks the XT is clocked at 412/365. The Pro is clocked at 412/375 (it is intentionally clocked 10mhz higher than the XT to make any latency difference between the two cards have negligible performance hit – XT=ddr Pro=ddr2). All were run at 1024x768 0xAA 0xAF…

3dmark2003

Card/Speed	Setting	1024x768 0xAA 0xAF
9800 XT 412/365		6092 marks
9800 Pro 412/375		5819 marks

Aquamark3

Card/Speed	Setting	1024x768 0xAA 0xAF
9800 XT 412/365		39119 Triscore
9800 Pro 412/375		39191 Triscore

3dMark2001

Card/Speed	Setting	1024x768 0xAA 0xAF
9800 XT 412/365		15013 marks
9800 Pro 412/375		15123 marks

 

Unreal Tournament 2003
1024x768 0xAA 0xAF

XT 412/365

Pro 412/375

Take from those results what you want however also take into account that no 9800 Pro 256mb will reach 460/400 stable on stock cooling.

 

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