I'll hafta dig up some links, but 500Mhz or 1Ghz DDR doesn't equal 48G bandwidth, its like 20 something. I don't know the formula for calculating bandwidth.
Also 20k+ 3dmark points? Come on we all now 3dmark is cpu limited, at default tests its not gonna be much faster if at all then the 9700.
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