9600 SE vs 9250

ATI cards, who wins? 9600 SE (only 64bit version) or the 9250?

Neither of them would be very good by today's standards.

But at least the 9600 is DirectX 9.0 hardware; the 9250 is only DirectX 8.1 in hardware.

The 9600 SE would be faster, as it has a 325MHz core speed (the 9250 has a 240MHz core). Both have 4 pixel pipelines, as well as 200MHz (400 DDR) memory. The vast majority of 9250s also have 64-bit memory, just like the 9600SE. However, 128-bit versions of the 9250 would probably tie in performance with the 9600SE, despite the lower core speed.

The 9600SE is DX9 (Pixel Shader 2) compatible, whereas the 9250 is only DX8.1 compatible. The 9600SE is really too slow to take advantage of that DX9 capability, though.

I know that, but neither is my oooold comp, im networking it, but anyways, which one would get for FPS?Juglo

If Dx8 was as much Direct3D as you would ever need, there are better, but harder to find, video cards than those two, available for similar or even lower prices. The 9250 is worse than its older cousin, the 9200, which was much worse than its own older cousin, the 8500. The 9600 Pro was made in great quantities, and is in stock at many of the Overstocks and Surplus Sales dealers. At a lower cost, there are still quite a few nVidia Ti 4200 cards out there, new in the box, very inexpensively.

The only video devices worse than a Radeon 9600 SE (that has Pixel Shader 2 for Dx9.b) is the 9550 SE and just about all of the nVidia FXes, unless you want OpenGL, in which case, they aren't bad at all.

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The SE cards are just so ridiculously BAD compared to almost anything other than a 9200 or 9250, and the FXes.

There are $5 PCI cards that can do text and 2D. The thing about cutting off all options is it can create a dead end. In the dupe of this thread, I've pointed out that I used a TNT2 Riva-B 32 in the PC intended for old DOS games. If I want to, I can still use that old clunker for a Network Printer Server, and not lose the ability to play the old game.

I have a better old card I could've used, a GF2 GTS (I believe that's what it was), but the TNT2 is already overkill . .

I believe that the OP has reached a count of at least four, proabably more, of the same (silly by now, IMO) question, just slightly different, about a series of low priced and old model video cards (three yesterday, including this one, certainly). I have the feeling that we are dealing with a bored youth with an endless, boring summer, needing to do something, anything, and choosing this way of coping. Which is now causing us the great huge boredom problem.

The current reiteration involves the X1300 and the 9800 Pro.

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=32&card2=476

I believe that the OP has reached a count of at least four, proabably more, of the same (silly by now, IMO) question, just slightly different, about a series of low priced and old model video cards (three yesterday, including this one, certainly). I have the feeling that we are dealing with a bored youth with an endless, boring summer, needing to do something, anything, and choosing this way of coping. Which is now causing us the great huge boredom problem.

The current reiteration involves the X1300 and the 9800 Pro.

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=32&card2=476

Kiwi_1

listen @$$WIPE! there are differences between my threads! thats why theyre not getting locked,and who are you to go around saying this? your a pathetic level 8 (probebly the idiot youth you were speaking about) so just bugoff! and if your getting board of clicking on my topics... DONT CLICK THEM! your not wanted by me and probebly everyone else. GOOD DAY TO YOU SIR