Dual 2.5ghz G5 video card questions

Hello,
I've read a bunch of posts on replated subjects, but I've enough of a newbie at this to not be sure I'm undertanding all of it.
I have a Dual 2.5ghz G5 with a ATI Radeon 9600 XT video card.
I want to get a 30" display. While I don't play games I will be using Aperture, which seems to work better with a faster video card. Ideally I'd like to be able to also drive a 15" lcd on the side as well, but this is not a necessity.
I've found two in stock at various places. Can anyone tell me if one or both of these would work? And if one would be a much better performer?
thanks very much.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition Video Card 100-435058 ($239)
and
ATI Radeon X850XT 256 MB AGP Video Card ($513)
Per the Apple Store website:
System Requirements : Requires ATI Radeon 9650, Radeon X850 XT or NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL Card

Hi,
The first card needs to be the ATI RADEON 9800 PRO Mac Special Edition Graphics AGP 8x 256 MB DDR - The G5 Edition. The one you have posted is not the 'Special' G5 Edition.
The second one needs to be a Mac Edition also:
RADEON X800 XT Mac Edition.
The 9800 is much faster than a 9600. The X800 is the fastest video card made for the Mac AGP, very good card.
They are both very difficult to find. See this thread for more info:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3566354#3566354
Regards,
Dave

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