9800 Pro to XT Flash: Any other benefits rather than Clocks?

[KODE]

Hi,

Like the Topic says: Is there any other benefits from flashing a 9800pro to a 9800XT rather than the higher clocks? Does the 9800XT have any other superior technology? more pipelines, support for extra features, etc... (I already know the Overdrive thingy :))

KODE.

[JAMES]

More ram 9800pro 128mb and 9800XT 256mb and clock to clock 9800XT is faster then 9800pro

That is even if a 9800pro is overclocked to 9800XT ...9800XT is still faster...:)

[KODE]

Thanks for the reply JAMES,

My 9800pro have 256M (R360 core), but why even at the same clock the XT is faster? must be something else...

[r3b0rN]

maybe the new pcb design can tighten the latencies more?

[KODE]

I heard something about pixel shader optimizations... not sure if it´s true.

[slavik]

9800XT has GDDR memory, while 9800pro 256MB has GDDR2 ... and 16 chips, instead of eight ...

[LilGator]

Not really slavik, the older 256MB Pro's did, but all the new ones are XT PCB's, GDDR, 8 chips (Hynix) and R360 cores. Same as XT.

For me, 9800 Pro 128MB (R360 core), flashing to an XT bios gave a big boost in 3DM03, but nothing anywhere else...

[slavik]

but why have a 9800pro that is just like the XT???

[LilGator]

It's cheaper than making a separate line of 256MBs that have different PCBs / Memory / Cores...

:D