Gigabyte GV-R98P128D 128M Review (1)
Overclocker 12 May 2003

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Background

ATi Radeon 9800pro should not be too stranger to you. Since its launch a few months ago, we only saw a couple of sites posting reviews on the original ATi card. Everyone seems to be wondering what happened to the retail boards from manufacturers. Well, there were a few Hercules, Powercolor reviews popping up on the net. It seems that the Radeon 9800Pro has enough chipsets ready for the mass market compared to a few months ago.

The battle between ATi and NVIDIA is never ending. While we were writing this review, we heard news of a GF FX5900. Anyway, to date, the Radeon 9800Pro is still king of PC graphics. Featured with improve features set from the Radeon9700pro, it not only offers better performance but better image quality using algorithms.

According to what is reported in the media, there are two variations of the R9800 Pro cards. One is with 2ns DDR and the other is 2.8ns DDR. We always thought that the power of the card could be unleashed by overclocking the Core and Memory. The lower the speed of the ram the higher the clock speed we can reach. We will take a look at that as well.

In our tests, we ran the system under AGP 8x mode on ABIT IC7-G 875P Canterwood with an Intel Pentium 4 3.0C, Kingston 2 x 256M DDR400 module at CAS 2, 5-2-2. We also explored the AntiAliasing and Anisotropic filtering modes comparing it to Tyan's Radeon 9700pro.

Benchmarks used include 3dMark2001SE B330, Q3 demo001, Comanche 4 and CodeCreatures Benchmark Pro.

Specifications

Chipset	Radeon 9800 PRO
Core Clock	380
Mem Clock	680
Memory	128
Mem Bus	256
BUS	AGP 8X / 4X
Mem Type	DDR 4Mx32-2
D-SUB	Y
TV-OUT	Y
DVI Port	N
2-View	Y
H/W Monitor	N
GAME	0

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