Question on Video Card Prices (128-256)

[Makaveli]

Not too long ago, I purchased a 256 mb Asylum Geforce FX 5200. I got the card for $115.00. When I look at other cards such as the Radeon cards, I see their 128mb cards for prices sometimes up in the $150-180.

My question is, what feautures about a 128 video card (or any really) would make it that much more expensive than a 256mb?

Thanks,

MaK

[Emc2]

Well, when do you really need 256MB of graphics RAM? Most gamers' computers only have 512MB of regular memory. So you're basing the price of RAM alone, and not some of the other neat features that ATI's have. I can't give you specifics of comparisons, because I don't know them.

I DO know that my ATI supports Triple Buffering, 6x anti-aliasing, AGP 8x, DirectX 9 (native), has a faster clock speed, and outperforms most GeForces, even though it only has 128mb of Video RAM. Besides, if you run out of video RAM, you have an AGP Aperture for spillover, so it'll use your main memory...not as fast, but you'll rarely (very rarely) need more than 128MB.

[HeadBand]

that is a common misconception that how many MB means how good of a card it is....really what matters is the speed of the gpu and memory and how good the firmware /drivers for the card is...most cards will not even use up the 128mb limit

that is basically saying that a system with a 1ghz cpu and 4gb of ram is faster than a 3ghz cpu with 1gb of ram....you are not filling up the ram with either 1gb or 4gb so it son't matter since you are not paging it

[tony_j15]

Bottom Line: Except for the R9800 or FX5900, 256mb vid ram is worthless. On the other cards is amounts to nothing more than a scam to sucker in people who dont know better.