I just bought a radeon 9700 pro. Reading several reviews I saw that the card comes with 2.8ns Samsung RAM which translates into roughly 357Mhz (714DDR). However, the speed is set at 310Mhz. My question is, if the memory is capable of doing such speeds, why do manufacturers underclock them in their video cards?
i know that sometimes they do that in lower spec cards to make a difference in performance between this cards and their higher end cards. but when the 9700 pro came out it was the top of the line for ATI so why bother? Why didn't they just configured the memory at the rated speed and get better performance in the process?
i know that sometimes they do that in lower spec cards to make a difference in performance between this cards and their higher end cards. but when the 9700 pro came out it was the top of the line for ATI so why bother? Why didn't they just configured the memory at the rated speed and get better performance in the process?