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1GB nVidia® GeForce™ GTS 240 graphics card
Dual SLI™ 1GB nVidia® GeForce™ GTS 240 graphics card
1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX260 graphics card
DUAL SLI™ 1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX260
1GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics card
1.8GB NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX295 graphics card
Dual CrossFire™ 1GB ATI® Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics card
Which one is the best out of these? I’m assuming because Dual is 2 and is more expensive it’s is better. Btw I’m looking at gaming computers
thanks
The GTX260
or the ATi Radeon 5870
the dual means there are two physical video cards in the computer running in tandem to produce one image. Ati’s name for this is Crossfire, Nvidias name for this is SLi
both are Scalable link interfaces.
if you dont plan on running a extremely large monitor (talking 28" 1920×1200 or more) i’d doubt you would see any true advantages over two 5870’s vs a single one, as one of those cards by itself is extremely f@#$ing fast.
I have a Evga GTX260 SSC Knock Out 896MB (limited edition) and it tears through any game around including Crysis, also game on a 28" 1920×1200 monitor lol….. and SLi would help me, But i’ve got a 2 year old kiddo to take care of, so no moar computer parts right now.
damn economy not letting me get my game on, the way i want to get my game on : P
If i had the spare cash, id shoot for the crosfire system, If i’m sorta strapped on the moolah, shoot for the single 5870 or GTX260.
Both cards are about the same (Ati’s is faster, but are sort of known to have driver issues, Image sampling errors, and Anti Aliasing doesnt work on some games [Battleground europe]) But the ATI 5870 would win over a standard GTX260 in a benchmark bedlem battle.
The SLi GTX260 Vs the Crosfire 5870 would be one hell of a battle though, so make a long hard desicion over that.
And if you’ve already got over 1.5GB of texture memory another 256MB or 486MB really…honestly, won’t make one hell of a difference at all, not even 1fps. with that much available pooled memory, you’ll run out of processing power far before you run out of a place to put everything.
