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Old Jan 13, 2009, 03:59 AM   #3713
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Originally Posted by Beertintedgoggles View Post
Does anyone know if I'd see any difference in PPD between the DDR3 9600GSO and the DDR2 model (both having 96 shaders)? Just curious, I know with my 8800gt's my PPD is almost exclusively dependent on my shader clocks rather than core or mem, but I know there's a big difference in memory bandwidth between the two versions.
Yes, the DDR2 version only has a 128bit Memory bus and gets about 20% less PPD. I found out the hard way and bought 2 of them. Heavy o/c's get me about 3385 ppd on the 384pt WU's. I would move up to the 9800GT cards instead of these.
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