I need the best PCI video card for gaming. I know that the PCI
interface is horrible for gaming, but this is for a little experiment of mine. It looks like PowerColor just put out a Radeon HD 2400Pro for the PCI bus. Before I was looking at getting HIS Hightech's X1550. Here are the specs for both cards:
HIS Hightech X1550:
Fabrication Process: 80nm
Core Clock: 550MHz
Memory Clock: 800MHz (effective)
Memory Type: 256mb DDR2
Memory Interface: 64-bit
Fill rate: 2.2GPixal/s
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4GB/s
PowerColor HD 2400 Pro:
Fabrication Process: 65nm
Core Clock: 525MHz
Memory Clock: 800MHz (effective)
Memory Type: 256mb DDR2
Memory Interface: 64-bit
Fill rate: 2.1GPixal/s
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4GB/s
If anyone knows for a fact which one is better for gaming please let me know. And once again, I know that PCI bus is definitely not the way to go for serious gaming. This is for my own kicks. Which is the best? And what PCIe cards perform similarly to these PCI cards? Thank you.|||Speed wise they are pretty similar in their clock speed, their fill rates and their memory bandwidth.
Which is better, kind of splitting hairs on that one. I would personally choose the HD2400 Pro as I've put a couple in systems I've built and am using one now. I have played a couple of games on them but nothing too taxing. The biggest advantage of the HD2400 is for HD video playback which it is awesome at while the 1550 will suck at it.
Past that the HD2400 uses a smaller die (65nm vs 80nm) which means it will make less heat and use less power. Both good things in my books.
That PCI bus is a real dog for video though. Just so you are aware before you try and use it:
Max throughput to PCI bus is 133MB/sec
Max to an AGP 8x card is 1024MB/sec
Max to a PCIe card is 2048MB/sec
Max to a PCIe 2.0 card is 4096MB/sec
That 133 bottleneck is pretty stiff compared to the regular PCIe bottleneck of 2048.
Your call though and that HDMI output on the 2400PRO can make a huge difference if you are trying to make a multimedia machine.|||Better get Powercolor HD 2400 Pro this have more smaller nm.U must know,the specs of graphic card not only on its specations but also on nanometer cause the smaller nm,the powerful graphic card.
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