If you look at the template hierarchy for categories you will see it follows:
- category-{slug}.php
- category-{id}.php
- category.php
- archive.php
- index.php
As Milo says these templates are just using the loop to display what is already queried, so there template itself does not matter outside load order of the hierarchy.
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