Gigabyte GV-R98P256D 256M Review (1)
Overclocker 8 Jul 2003

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Background

ATi Radeon 9800pro should not be too stranger to you. You have probably read our review of the Gigabyte GV-R98128D 128M earlier. Today, we bring your the performance review of its 256M Variant of the card.

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. This third model which has 256M looks identical to the ATi card. It uses Samsung KAN26323AE-GC22 DDR memory which is DDR-II 2.2ns. In our tests, we will look at default core/mem clk and overclocked results.

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 and Gigabyte Radoen 9800Pro 128M

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

Specifications

GV-R98P256D
Chipset	Radeon 9800 PRO
Core Clock	380
Mem Clock	700
Memory	256
Mem Bus	256
BUS	AGP 8X / 4X
Mem Type	DDRII 4Mx32-2.2
D-SUB	Y
TV-OUT	Y
DVI Port	Y
2-View	Y
H/W Monitor	N
O/C Tools	V-Tuner
GAME	0

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