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What is more important?
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Snakey said:
hard to say. very hard to say, iv seen cards with 512mb ram such as gf6200 which is not very quick at all compared to even a 128mb 6600.
then iv also seen cards with 320 stream processors perform slower than cards with 128 stream processors.
so this question can go either way.
very nice question though, would love to see the replies of other people since this is an interesting subject you have brought up.
Street said:
iv had many people say to me why thier 6200 with 512mb vram can;t run testdrive unlimited properly, they winge that they get around 20fps on low at 640x480
they they say why can;t it do it when its got 512mb on it and my 256mb card runs it far better. very funny indeed.
Boogle said:Just show him benchmarksToms Hardware has VGA charts that let you compare almost any card to almost any other card in many games and theoretical tests.
What about 'real world' experience? Anyone have cards with less memory that have performed better than previous cards with more memory?
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its quite simple explanation really.
just explain to him that there are several components which make up a GFX card.
some of these are more important than others, and that while Vid Ram is important, it is and can be bottlenecked by memory bandwith, Shader power and general clockspeed.
anyone who thinks More Ram = Quicker = numpty.
talk to him in language he may understand.
Show him that a mondeo 2.0 has 136bhp, but a Honda Type R 2.0 has 190Bhp. explain to him that some numbers - whilst indicative of performance do not tell the whole story and that the actual spec should be looked at before making an assumption.
just explain to him that there are several components which make up a GFX card.
some of these are more important than others, and that while Vid Ram is important, it is and can be bottlenecked by memory bandwith, Shader power and general clockspeed.
anyone who thinks More Ram = Quicker = numpty.
talk to him in language he may understand.
Show him that a mondeo 2.0 has 136bhp, but a Honda Type R 2.0 has 190Bhp. explain to him that some numbers - whilst indicative of performance do not tell the whole story and that the actual spec should be looked at before making an assumption.
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You can't really compare "stream processors" or "shader processors" unless they are part of the same generation of GPUs and the same make (i.e. ATI or Nvidia).
On the other hand comparing the amount of memory is pretty simple so long as you take into account the speed at which it is running at.
On the other hand comparing the amount of memory is pretty simple so long as you take into account the speed at which it is running at.
