Radeon 9600 Pro Vs. Fx 5600

[mad_gundam]

I need help between choosing these cards.
Radeon 9600 Pro:
Tot. Mem - 128 MB DDR
Core/Mem speed- 400/300
Manf. Process - 0.15

FX 5600 :
Tot. Mem - 256 MB DDR
Core/Mem speed - 270/ 500
Manf. Ptocess - 0.13

Both of these come around same price
the i think 9600 pro gives better performance but fx 9600 gives 256 Mb
Please help

 

[akshayt]

For what prices are you getting these.Going for radeon 9800pro or fx 5900 sounds better.

Radeon 9600 is preferred over fx 5600ultra.
For such cards ,no point having 256mb vram

 

[blade_runner]

The 5600 is a no go dude. Go for the 9600pro. No point of investing in the extra 128Mb cuz it's won't be utilised much if you tend to play games @ 1024 or 1280 res. 256 Mb of Vram might be good if you hav that much amt of processing power available. however Doom 3 might benefit from the 256 Mb.Still thats not reason enough to go for the 5600.

 

[anidex]

A shader intensive water demo that I cooked up runs like this :-

On my Radeon 9600 Pro:
1280x1024 4xFSAA, 16xAF - 52.0 - 57.0 fps

On my buddy's FX 5600:
1280x1024 4xFSAA, no-AF - 12.0 - 16.0 fps

That should help you make your decision. BTW, the 9600 Pro also uses 0.13 micron technology.

 

[aryan-achilles]

I quite agree !!! The Radeon 9600 Pro is anytime better than the FX 5600.

 

[mad_gundam]

thxk all of u for ur reply well it solved my problem and i better be going for 9600 pro it comes around 7.5k

 

[akshayt]

it comes for 9.5k