ATI 9600 Pro card and Leopard?

Hello!
I would like to know if the video drivers in leopard are better than the ATI Display software. I want to install Leopard on a G5 with Radeon 9600 Pro Mac/PC edition via a simple update, but dont know if the card will be handled right away, and if yes if I'm to install the Ati software (4.5.7 is the latest I think).
Thanx for your input...

Hopefully this will help someone else in my predicament...
I just installed Leopard on a G5 with an old ATI Rage card in it (long story) and found that HD video (x264 .mkv, etc.) was really choppy (go figure!). So I dug up the 9600 card that came with the G5 originally and swapped out the older card with this newer one. The G5 then booted though the Apple logo with the spinning gear and right when it was looking like it would go into the desktop and finish the boot process the screen would just go black.
While searching around the forums for someone else with this problem (and swapping the video cards back out so I could at least boot the G5 and try installing the latest ATI driver from their website) I noticed from another system on my network that when the G5 was running with the 9600 (and the screen was blank) it was still accessible via the network, and even more importantly available for screen sharing (yea Leopard!). So I shared the screen, seeing that it was running a super low res (that the attached DVI monitor did not support, I guess). I switched the res to a known-good setting (1680 x 1050) and suddenly the blank screen snapped to life, and all is working fine now (and HD video playback is smooth as silk!).
If I had installed Leopard with the 9600 installed in the G5 to start with I bet this would not have happened, but hey, live and learn.

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