Which card is more powerful?

I own a Sapphire radeon 9800pro 256mb and a BFG nvidia 6600GT OC 128mb.
brand and price aside, Which one is better?

They both have the same core.

The 6600 GT can be clocked higher than the 9800 Pro, so it's core perform better. BUT the 6600 GT has half the memory bandwidth, so the texture resolution would have to be pretty small, wich fits well because the 6600 GT has only 128MB so it would make sense for it to have less bandwidth than the 9800 Pro, wich is a high-end card.
Now the 6600 GT has GDDR3 while the 9800 Pro has DDR2, wich means that u can get the memory clocks a little higher, but the bandwidth will never be as high as the 9800 Pro's.

Since the core is what matters in performance, and the 6600 GT's core (due to it's higher clock speed) is 33% faster in comparison to the 9800 Pro, the 6600 GT is the clear winner, but dont expect to use very high textures and still get good performance.

WTF are you smoking? They most certainly do NOT have the same core. One card is made by Nvidia, and the other by ATI. Does anything remotely correct every come out of your mouth? If you don't know what you're talking about, then STFU!

To the OP: don't listen to this troll. He pops in every now and then to say something stupid.

I am at a loss for words.

What?

The 6600GT for sure; it would be better in almost every game.

comparison vs. 9800XT and 128MB 9800 pro:
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] efault.asp

comparison vs. 128MB 9800 pro.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/sho [...] i=2277&p=3

This is sad...

YOU PEOPLE ARE RETARDS.

How the hell can the 9800 Pro and the 6600 GT have the same core?
Man, u ppl should have ur head examined!

OBVIOUSLY what i meant was their cores are abt the same.. freaking retards..

9800 Pro (R350 core) - 8 shader, 8 TMU, 4 Vertex
6600 GT (N43 core) - 8 shader, 8 TMU, 3 Vertex

I am emmbrassed to have anything to do with the lot of u..

According to his logic athlon 2.2=c2d 2.1

The 6600GT also has SM3.0 support.

9800Pro has a 700MHz effective VRAM clock on a 256bit bus, while the 6600GT has a 1000MHz effective clock (assuming its not one of the many overclocked versions) on a 128bit bus.

This means the 9800Pro has ~40% more VRAM bandwidth

But given the 6600GTs much newer, SM3.0 compliant core, 31% faster GPU clock, the 6600GT will hammer it, as the benchmarks show.

And if you're sooo sure you even know the difference between the two, how come you're telling someone to use ATI tool to OC they're Nvidia card?

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/har [...] 15023.html

You stupid dumba$$.

More like a truck load.

Check his post count. That's how many times he's been wrong.

I am at a loss for words.

I think he smoked a bit too much crack!

No amount of crack can mess you up this badly.

I am at a loss for words.

I think he smoked a bit too much crack!

No amount of crack can mess you up this badly.

Change the Cr to Sm.

lol

Much as I agree his "Same Core" remark was very misleading, you are making yourself look like the "dumba$$" here.

Personal attacks are almost never needed.


ATItool works fine with nVidia cards. I have used it on my 7900GT and my 8800GTX.

The reason people recommend it even for nVidia cards is its ability to scan for artefacts and find max GPU and VRAM clocks easily. Give a newbie slider bars only as in coolbits, nTune, and Rivatuner, and they crank them to the max then post questions asking what the green lines/yellow dots on the screen are.

Sorry about the "personal" attacks, but this a$$ clown does this every time he says anything. The ATI tool rant came from him saying that the 9800pro, and 660GT use the same core.

Never knew ATI TOOL could be used for Nvidia cards. Never pretended I knew they could be, and if I could, I'd explain why I was recommending ATI tool for an Nvidia card. I can play nice, and admit to when I'm wrong , but when it comes to trolls like "Track" who never (unless luck is in the cards) knows WTF he's talking about, I have to call him on it. Go ahead and give him the benefit of the doubt. Doing so, puts you in the same catagory. Enjoy your new friend.