Question on video cards

[manny78]

Ok so does "data width" matters that much for gaming ? I have 256 bits (Radeon 9800XT) and used to have a 64 bits (GeForce MX) before and sometimes wonder if really makes such a difference. In other words, what matters on graphic card for gaming ? Data width ? Controller speed ? Memory ? RAMDAC ?

 

[manny78]

up !!!

 

[manny78]

and some karma

 

[Dial_tone]

I don't know if you can say which matters MOST! Data width comes into play at the higher resolutions and color depths. If you play games at 1024x768 @ 16-bit color data width isn't much of an issue. You can crank that same game up to 1600x1200 @ 24-bit color and data width matters a hell of alot. Translation: you don't care if the highway into town has 6 lanes if you go to work at 3AM, but if you hit the road at 8AM you care alot.

 

[manny78]

I don't know if you can say which matters MOST! Data width comes into play at the higher resolutions and color depths. If you play games at 1024x768 @ 16-bit color data width isn't much of an issue. You can crank that same game up to 1600x1200 @ 24-bit color and data width matters a hell of alot. Translation: you don't care if the highway into town has 6 lanes if you go to work at 3AM, but if you hit the road at 8AM you care alot.

Thanks. Karma to you.

 

[casualbb]

Speed of GPU unit and speed and quantity of RAM matter a lot.

I haven't really been keeping up, but anything that's decent nowadays has at least 128 MB of RAM, maybe even twice that.

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[B0ARDIN087]

Ok so does "data width" matters that much for gaming ? I have 256 bits (Radeon 9800XT) and used to have a 64 bits (GeForce MX) before and sometimes wonder if really makes such a difference. In other words, what matters on graphic card for gaming ? Data width ? Controller speed ? Memory ? RAMDAC ?

the xt is an awesome card....... u dun good.

i personaly run the 9800 pro but i have it Oced to 420/350 (core/memory speed)