ATI RADEON 9700 PRO Extreme Overclocking

swannema · 12-11-2002, 08:44 PM

http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/radeon...-overclocking/

Not sure if it has been posted. I have been out of the loop the last couple of days.

Conclusion
So, in spite of all our apprehensions, the extreme overclocking of ATI RADEON 9700 PRO is a rewarding thing.

With proper cooling and increased chip and memory voltages, we managed to raise the graphics core and memory clock-rates by 38.5% and 29%, respectively. The maximum frequencies the graphics card would work at were 450MHz for the core and 800MHz (400MHz DDR) for the memory. That's definitely a record-breaking performance!

Judging by the results obtained in Unreal Tournament, the performance growth we got during overclocking reached 30-35%. In other words, it appeared proportional to the increase of the chip and memory frequencies.

We also learned that the issue of poor "balance" of ATI RADEON 9700 PRO holds true. With 256bit DDR SDRAM memory bus, this graphics chip has "only" eight texture modules and it is the texturing speed that may become the bottleneck in certain situations. But, as the benchmarks show, ATI RADEON 9700 PRO gets definitely "out of balance" only when anisotropic filtering is enabled. In all other cases, the workload is shared evenly between the chip and the memory bus.

So, we are ready to meet NV30. Are you?

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Qba73 · 12-12-2002, 09:42 AM

i am a loyal ati follower, but i must admit the fx looks like a monster, and yes the 9700 would compete with the fx while its overclocked, but would only be competing with a card thats running at stock speeds, imagine the bench's on a fx overclocked.

i feel ati's counter will beat the fx when it comes out in spring 2003, ati always does them one better. remember the 9700 was meant to crush the ti4600 (which it most definitly does) not to compete with nvidia's FX.

if the past holds up ati will beat the fx with there answer in spring, but this competion is endless like intel and amd, they get locked in and there is never any clear winner. One has the title for 4-6 months until a counter is launched and so on. but it is finally good to see that nvidia is definitly sharing the castle with ati now. Camelot always comes to an end sometime, nvidia in the past year has had a reality check.

dirfmike · 03-12-2003, 02:11 AM

FYI...

This article is now at this link;

Radeon 9700 Overclocking

Sir_JaKoNT|L · 03-12-2003, 02:23 AM

interesting swanni, thanks for the info

12-11-2002, 08:44 PM	#1
swannema ???????????????? Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 9,632	ATI RADEON 9700 PRO Extreme Overclocking http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/radeon...-overclocking/ Not sure if it has been posted. I have been out of the loop the last couple of days. Conclusion So, in spite of all our apprehensions, the extreme overclocking of ATI RADEON 9700 PRO is a rewarding thing. With proper cooling and increased chip and memory voltages, we managed to raise the graphics core and memory clock-rates by 38.5% and 29%, respectively. The maximum frequencies the graphics card would work at were 450MHz for the core and 800MHz (400MHz DDR) for the memory. That's definitely a record-breaking performance! Judging by the results obtained in Unreal Tournament, the performance growth we got during overclocking reached 30-35%. In other words, it appeared proportional to the increase of the chip and memory frequencies. We also learned that the issue of poor "balance" of ATI RADEON 9700 PRO holds true. With 256bit DDR SDRAM memory bus, this graphics chip has "only" eight texture modules and it is the texturing speed that may become the bottleneck in certain situations. But, as the benchmarks show, ATI RADEON 9700 PRO gets definitely "out of balance" only when anisotropic filtering is enabled. In all other cases, the workload is shared evenly between the chip and the memory bus. So, we are ready to meet NV30. Are you? __________________ SUSE 11.2, KDE 4.3.4
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12-12-2002, 09:42 AM	#2
Qba73 Bench This Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Land of the lost Towers, NY Posts: 1,665	i am a loyal ati follower, but i must admit the fx looks like a monster, and yes the 9700 would compete with the fx while its overclocked, but would only be competing with a card thats running at stock speeds, imagine the bench's on a fx overclocked. i feel ati's counter will beat the fx when it comes out in spring 2003, ati always does them one better. remember the 9700 was meant to crush the ti4600 (which it most definitly does) not to compete with nvidia's FX. if the past holds up ati will beat the fx with there answer in spring, but this competion is endless like intel and amd, they get locked in and there is never any clear winner. One has the title for 4-6 months until a counter is launched and so on. but it is finally good to see that nvidia is definitly sharing the castle with ati now. Camelot always comes to an end sometime, nvidia in the past year has had a reality check. __________________ I7 920 @ 4.02Ghz 6gb Corsair Dominators P6T Deluxe BFG 285 GTX OC OCZ Powerstream 700w Samsung 2693HM 25in PS3/X360 60" Panny
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dirfmike Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Vancouver, BC Posts: 91	link change FYI... This article is now at this link; Radeon 9700 Overclocking __________________ Mike P4PE w/ 1024MB Corsair XMS3200 running at 2700, 2x120GB Western Digital HDD 8MB cache PATA + 1x300GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA and a 3.06 P4 Northwood @ 3.29 w/ BFG 6800 GS OC on a Samsung 191T
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