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773794 2009-05-14 09:48:00 GTX260 (new design), GTX275 ,Ati HD4870 (512Mb), HD4890 (1024Mb)

looking to get one of the four,,any advice,suggestions,comments Welcome :thumbs:
cookiemonster (9463)
773795 2009-05-14 09:50:00 What size screen do you have currently and at what resolution?

What games are you planning to play?

I would get the 4870 personally

Blam
Blam (54)
773796 2009-05-14 21:45:00 The best performing card you can afford. pctek (84)
773797 2009-05-14 22:16:00 the gtx 260 has 896mb ram and is $380.23
the gtx 275 also has 896mb ram but is $496.35

i'd go for the GTX260
GameJunkie (72)
773798 2009-05-14 22:21:00 You can't compare them like that junkie - the 275 has more stream processors, faster core clock, more memory bandwidth, as well as a couple of other things.

The GTX 260OC with 216 stream processors is a good card.

www.tweakpc.de

theres a comparison, the page is kind of in german but at least you can see the charts.

If you get a 260, don't go for the 192 stream processors one, make sure you get the 216.

GTX 260

Graphics Engine NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
Bus Standard PCI Express 2.0
Video Memory DDR3 896MB
Engine Clock 576 MHz
Shader Clock 1242 MHz
Memory Clock 1.998 GHz ( 999 MHz DDR3 )
Memory Interface 448-bit
DVI Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
VGA Output Yes x 1 (via DVI to D-Sub adaptor x 1 )
DVI Output Yes x 2 (DVI-I)
HDTV Output Yes
HDCP Support Yes

GTX 275

Graphics Engine NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
Bus Standard PCI Express 2.0
Video Memory DDR3 896MB
Engine Clock 633 MHz
Shader Clock 1404 MHz
Memory Clock 2.268 GHz ( 1.134 GHz DDR3 )
Memory Interface 448-bit
CRT Max Resolution 2048 x 1536
DVI Max Resolution 2560 x 1600
D-Sub Output Yes x 1 (via DVI to D-Sub adaptor x 1 )
DVI Output Yes x 2 (DVI-I)
HDMI Output Yes x 1 (via DVI to HDMI adaptor x 1 )
HDTV Output (YPbPr) Yes
HDCP Support Yes
wratterus (105)
773799 2009-05-14 23:10:00 I might get struck off for saying this on here, but if you have a look in the April edition of Aus PC Authority. There is a latest graphics card review, 22 cards tested. Driftwood (5551)
773800 2009-05-14 23:21:00 Work out which one is the best balance of price/performance for your needs. I'd say the performance is in the following order, best to worst:
GTX275
4890
GTX260 216SP
4870
inphinity (7274)
773801 2009-05-14 23:59:00 the gtx 260 has 896mb ram and is $380.23
the gtx 275 also has 896mb ram but is $496.35

i'd go for the GTX260

So your criteria is cheap.

Mine is performance, then budget.
The 275 is a better performing card, and not massively more so of the 2 I'd take that.


Make an informed decision:

www.tomshardware.com
pctek (84)
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