DDR2 or GDDR3 ?

[garyevs]

Hi

I am looking to buy a replacement graphics card, as mine has just died. I will probably build a new PC shortly, so I don't want to spend too much on this card at the moment.

I have been looking at the AGP Radeon X1650Pro.

There are a couple of versions:

512Mb DDR2 running at 800MHz clock speed
256Mb GDDR3 running at 1.3Ghz clock speed

I was wondering which is the better card, as they are around the same price.


Cheers

[pullmyfoot]

the GDDR3. faster ram. and besides, that card dosent need 512mbs of ram, so the 256 will actually perform better than the 512mb version.

[garyevs]

Originally Posted by pullmyfoot

the GDDR3. faster ram. and besides, that card dosent need 512mbs of ram, so the 256 will actually perform better than the 512mb version.

I thought that the GDDR3 was the way to go, but I just needed confirmation.


Thanks for your help.

Cheers

[dr_roberts49]

My EVGA 7600GT has 256mb of GDDR3 and it smokes! Going to buy another from Newegg pretty soon so I can run them in SLI.

Robert