"ridiculously cheap price"

Don't be a pansy. Go for it. YOLO.

I love mystery, and sometimes the only way to find out is to fuck around.

luckybob wrote on 2023-10-11, 15:05:

"ridiculously cheap price"

Don't be a pansy. Go for it. YOLO.

I love mystery, and sometimes the only way to find out is to fuck around.

Yeah, but shipping on the other hand is not THAT cheap so it kinda balances out 🤣

Looks more like some 9800SE models.

Radeon 9X00 cards having cut down memory interfaces is not unusual. It's unlikely to be a knockoff, and more likely to be an OEM card supplied from Inno3D, Palit, Club or some other. The cheap-o capacitors (relative to polymer) are also a giveaway. Palit loves electrolytic as cost-saving substitutions. If you can get a better look at the memory chips, I wonder if they are 250/500MHz TSOP? Another OEM cost-saver giveaway.

That's essentially just a mislabeled Radeon 9500 Pro. Some of these cards actually had decent Hynix 3.3ns memory which is capable to work at 650-700 Mhz.

Pretty sure the Mobility 9700 was available as 256MB/128-bit configuration.

I wonder if it’s some kind of laptop GPU shoved on an AGP card.

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-10-11, 18:43:

That's essentially just a mislabeled Radeon 9500 Pro.

I’m not sure of that. Most 9500 Pros were identical to their 9700 Pro counterparts.

Mobility 9700 = desktop Radeon 9600. And that's some leftovers R300 chip shoved on a PCB from Radeon 9800 SE. Sadly, not significantly faster than Radeon 9600XT, due to GPU clock difference, while lacking universal AGP connector.

I told the guy to boot up a machine with this card and run GPU-Z and he agreed, he's also curious. We'll see what we get when he can do that.

Am386DX-40 wrote on 2023-10-11, 18:58:

I told the guy to boot up a machine with this card and run GPU-Z and he agreed, he's also curious. We'll see what we get when he can do that.

see, that's no fun. 🙁

if its anything interesting, its suddenly going to cost more and you've lost out. Granted if its actually something boring, and or broken, you can say you won...

No, whatever it is, the price stays the same. So it's a win or nothing, but no loss.

paradigital wrote on 2023-10-11, 18:44:

Pretty sure the Mobility 9700 was available as 256MB/128-bit configuration.

I wonder if it’s some kind of laptop GPU shoved on an AGP card.

That's my guess as well. R3_0 chips were built with 150nm lithography and required external 4-pin power; RV3_0 chips were built with 130nm lithography, were a bit slower than R3_0 chips, but required no external power and produced less heat.

luckybob wrote on 2023-10-11, 19:11:

if its anything interesting

It isn't in any scenario, because it's a gimped 128-bit memory bus card.