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X1950 XT 256MB vs 7900GTO 512MB

Big.Wayne

Big.Wayne

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Let us assume the cards are the same price (£180) which do you prefere?

Even though the X1950XT has 256MB compared to the 7900GTO's 512MB the ATI card still appears to be beating nVidia's badboy in most benchmarks!

It what situations would the added memory come into play? because from what I'm seeing atm, the X1950XT 256MB is the 'performance' card to beat at the sub £200 price point. . . :cool:
 
Big.Wayne said:
It what situations would the added memory come into play? because from what I'm seeing atm, the X1950XT 256MB is the 'performance' card to beat at the sub £200 price point. . . :cool:
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The more memory would only come into play really at higher resolutions

Even then, ATi's cards have a much better memory management system on there cards so the difference will be hardly anything at all

The ATi card will also deal better with AA as it doesnt seem to take such a performance hit as nVidia cards do. Plus you get the better image quality that most people claim and notice in the X1**0 series as compared to the 7 series of nVidia
 
If you're not heavily into your overclocking then the X1950XT will easily be better. But the 7900GTO clocks an absolute treat and with a volt mod will easily out perform the XT. But it's all down to what you prefer doing.

Stock/mild overclock = X1950XT

Heavy overclocking/volt modding = 7900GTO
 
naffa said:
Heavy overclocking/volt modding = 7900GTO
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Can I ask how safe it is volt modding the GTO?

I proper fancy a new card, and if the GTO out performs the GTX after the OC and mod, I think i may have found a card to put me on until i've gone conroe. :D
 
sunlitsix said:
isnt the 7900GTO basically a down clocked GTX?
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They appear to be the same apart from the speed at which the memory is clocked! (1320MHz vs 1600MHz) Some believe the voltage to the memory is less on the GTO card which is why there is the talk of a vMod (to increase the vDimm).

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At this point the X1950XT 256MB looks very tempting! even though it isn't on the above chart :D
 
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The GTO flashes to a GTX (this increases the mem voltage), which is nice.

Steedie: What do you mean, a better memory management system? A texture takes up the same space, regardless of the GPU since the devs decide what compression is used. OK the ATI may somehow use slightly less memory for the framebuffer (is that even possible?), but other than that all GPUs will use the same amount of memory.

Unless you use turbocache/hypermemory, but then you're using slow system memory.
 
EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GTO Review @FiringSquad

I've just picked out the 1920x1200 results where possible and bear in mind that the ATI X1950XT isn't included in these results, just use the older X1900XT as a reference score (i'm sure the X1950XT is faster right?).


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Boogle said:
The GTO flashes to a GTX (this increases the mem voltage), which is nice.
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Hi, I have heard various angles to this one and I am led to believe that it is not possible to softmod a VGA cards voltage, you gotta get your soldering iron out and hook up some stuff.

I have had positive results myself from the so-called 'softmod' where you flash a new BIOS and all of a sudden you can get better clocks, but someone else suggested this was due to memory timings being altered or the like?

Would be good to have some feedback on this :)
 
Not sure tbh, I'm just going by an XtremeSystems thread where the 7900GTO clocked like crazy once it was flashed (700/850). I thought I saw a thread where they put a multimeter on the PCB, but can't find it :(

It could be due to timings being reduced, but the performance doesn't seem to drop. So if the timings are relaxed, they aren't affecting performance.
 
The MSI GTO is a GTX, the only difference is a slightly lower memory volts and Mhz. but they make it by sklightly tightening the timing.

its fairly weasy to get 750mhz out of the memory though, most do 800 and some higher.
This si the only reason you will need to volt mod the card, as they undervolt the memory by default.

in terms of thinking - the GTo does not need to be 'soft modded', it has exactly the same core/pipes as the GTX
 
Big.Wayne said:
They appear to be the same apart from the speed at which the memory is clocked! (1320MHz vs 1600MHz)
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Its_Me said:
The MSI GTO is a GTX, the only difference is a slightly lower memory volts and Mhz
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That's what I have already said :)

wannabedamned said:
Does it have the same cooling?

If i was to get one, And upped the core and memory, Would the cooling cope?
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yup its the same!
 
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I'd go with the x1950XT-256, given a choice of either card for the same price.

This is coming from a 7900GTO owner btw (got mine when they were £158 and the x1950xt-256 hadn't been released)
 
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