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PowerColor 9800 Platinum Edition – Manipulated Radeon 9800 Pro |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 24 September 2004 |
TweakTown has taken a look at the PowerColor 9800 Platinum Edition. PowerColor sent TweakTown their Radeon 9800 "Platinum Edition" graphics card last week but they had to admit the naming behind the product got them a little confused. As they had never heard of this strangely named 9800 Platinum Edition before now.
 PowerColor 9800 Platinum Edition
After doing a little digging they quickly discovered that the 9800 Platinum Edition is nothing more than a Radeon 9800 Pro GPU which is cut-down a little to help reduce the retail price for consumers. The 9800 Platinum Edition only uses a 128-bit memory bus compared to the 256-bit on the "true" 9800 Pro and the memory speed is a little slower on the Platinum Edition by around 40MHz (80MHz DDR) which gives the "true" 9800 Pro the ability to push about 2GB more bandwidth per second. Everything else is the same – you still have 8 pixel pipelines to crunch the data and DX9 and AGP 8x support available, just like the proper 9800 Pro and XT.
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