- Mar 20, 2011
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A while back, my XFX GeForce 8600 GT died. It lasted a couple years before dying, so I'm not sure why it died, but that's beside the point.
I'm looking into buying a new card now. I was pretty much decided on buying a Galaxy GeForce GT 430 until I stumbled upon what seems to be a very similar card: a Sapphire Radeon HD 4670. Both are the same price, both have 1GB 128-bit GDDR3 memory, both have the same effective memory clock speed and very similar core clock speed. There's a big difference in number of stream processors, but it is my understanding that stream processors differ between brands, and so larger quantity does not always indicate better performance.
So basically, I want to know how I should decide between these two cards. I've never had an ATI card before. I don't have a preference towards nVidia or ATI; I would be willing to buy either brand. But these two cards seem so similar. I noticed the Galaxy card has a much lower PSU wattage requirement, and I wonder why that is. Help would be appreciated.
I'm looking into buying a new card now. I was pretty much decided on buying a Galaxy GeForce GT 430 until I stumbled upon what seems to be a very similar card: a Sapphire Radeon HD 4670. Both are the same price, both have 1GB 128-bit GDDR3 memory, both have the same effective memory clock speed and very similar core clock speed. There's a big difference in number of stream processors, but it is my understanding that stream processors differ between brands, and so larger quantity does not always indicate better performance.
So basically, I want to know how I should decide between these two cards. I've never had an ATI card before. I don't have a preference towards nVidia or ATI; I would be willing to buy either brand. But these two cards seem so similar. I noticed the Galaxy card has a much lower PSU wattage requirement, and I wonder why that is. Help would be appreciated.