by Anton Shilov
06/20/2003 | 10:11 AM
A Taiwanese company that entered the graphics card market very recently has reportedly started to sell its graphics cards based on the RADEON 9600 PRO graphics processor with memory speeds lower than specified by ATI Technologies. Journalists from Clubic.com web-site already called such products as the RADEON 9600 PRO Lite.
<%BANNER[article]%>The graphics cards are made according to the RADEON 9600 PRO reference design, but cost 180 Euros instead of 230 Euros. A very annoying thing about these devices is that their VPU is clocked at 400MHz, just like ATI specified for the RADEON 9600 PRO, whereas memory of the solution works at 400MHz as well, just like specified for the RADEON 9600 (non-PRO). Such hybrid is faster than the latter, but is definitely slower than the original RADEON 9600 PRO. The problem is that they are for sale under the RADEON 9600 PRO brand-name and this misleads customers.
We are trying to find out whether this is actully a lower-end edition of the RADEON 9600 PRO or a new version of the RADEON 9600. Stay tuned.