Hi Thanks for reading
I'm interested in purchasing a new video card for gaming. There are tons of cards with the same GPU on newegg and the specifications section does not really help me since i lack some basic knowledge.
Core clock - Higher is better?
Stream processors - I assume higher is better?
Memory Size - important or are the speeds more important?
Memory Clock - Higher is better? Some say "(effective)" is that important and if so how do i compare that number to numbers not labeled effective?
For arguments sake If you were only able to choose a card by one or two of the specifications mentioned above which would it/they be?
Thanks so much|||it all depends what games are you gonna play and either there online or offline. mainly because online you need a good amount of ram at least 512 mb.
if your not going for online get a card thats has the core clock up really high and the memory clock up really high because thats the speed the card will run at. (you can get a 1gig card at a mem clock at 667mhz and a 512 bit card at 775mhz)
Stream processors you want high because it will give you reasonable fps rate. (frames per second)
If your gonna play games like cod4 or crisis or quake4 you want to get a cad thats overclocked to the stablest rate it can run because this will save you alot of time because you will want to overclock to get that extra bit of performance if you buy a non overclocked card and youll eventually break it because of overclocking.
the best overclocking company i recomend is evga and xfx, xfx is a prob better and cheaper.
the card id get is a xfx geforce 9800 gx2 black edition for online if you want the best performance online and ofline id get a xfx gtx 260 0r 285 i have the 285 which is the smart choice.
also nividia and amd/ati is the company who invent the graphics card and companies who get the nvidia cards get them and make them better and overclock them.
if you need any help email me|||In reality, specs don't mean much with video cards. Benchmarks do. If it's the SAME video card (like two 9800GTs), then you can look at specs to see if one's perhaps factory overclocked and better than the other.
Core clock is important. Higher is better.
Stream processors is good. higher is better.
Memory clock is good. Higher is better.
Memory size is almost illrelevant nowadays. In fact, some companies will put a ridiculous amount of ram on a crappy video card to make it look better than it really is. Case in point, a GeForce 9400GS with 1GB of RAM is far worse than a GeForce 9800GT with 512MBs of RAM.
If I had to pick based on only two specs, it would be core clock and stream processors. But you should really consult some benchmarks, like those over at http://www.tomshardware.com
Often ATI cards will have better specs than an nVidia card, but perform much worse. It's kind of strange.|||To kind of continue on from Mercuri:
As he said Memory size is not that important. Unless you're planning on using either large monitors or two or more monitors at the same time. The new cards with excessive amounts of RAM are more tailored for a specific purpose.
The GeForce 9400GS with 1GB will be able to seamlessly run HD DVD's on a screen up to 30" but will be (relatively) poor at gaming.
GeForce 9800GT with 512MBs will be much better than the 9400GS at gaming; however, it may struggle when using multiple monitors.
As Mercuri said on paper ATI may seem better than nVidia yet this is often not the case. I have experienced this first hand myself. The reason behind this is that ATI CCC (drivers) are much more power hungry than the nVidia drivers and so use up more of the computer's resources restricing its capability. Simply ATI drivers suck :( and from my experience cause no end of problems. I would highly recomend going for an nVidea card|||check these sights:
http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
3D mark results of the best video cards:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
personally I would choose a video card off of all three of those choices...
If u want a good video card remember
* at least 512MB of memory( ddr 2 or ddr 3) [memory size]
* their is no comparison to effective to non effective memory clocks that i know of ( but bigger isn't always better)
hope that helps
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