Difference between a Radeon sdr 32mb and a Radeon 7000 32mb?

[JEDI]

i have a 810e mobo (no agp slot), so i'm forced to buy a pci card. i have a radeon sdr 32mb pci, which i think is a radeon 7200.

I saw this about a radeon 7000 ddr pci: Radeon 7000 ddr

Anyone know the difference between the 2? and how much better is one over the other? (links to stats pls)

THX

 

[Metalloid]

I believe the only difference between the two is that the Radeon 7000 has DDR RAM as you mentioned. I have a radeon 32mb ddr and my computer detects it as a Radeon 7000.

 

[JEDI]

thx. is it pci? do u know how much better it is than the sdr version?

 

[jiffylube1024]

The Radeon 7000 is a piece of crap! Although it uses DDR RAM, its on a 64-bit memory bus (same speed as SDR on a 128-bit bus). It's the new "Radeon VE" and its slower than a regular Radeon SDR.

Metalloid - your radeon should be detecting as a 7200 I believe (My Radeon 32 MB DDR LE detects as that).

Go for a Radeon 7500, those are sweet cards

 

[JEDI]

thx jiffy!

too bad the LE didnt come in PCI form

looks like the best PCI video cards are either the gf2 mx, radeon sdr 32mb, or voodoo5.

sigh, looks like i have to upgrade my whole system to play the cutting edge games like Unreal2/warcraft3 this summer

 

[BFG10K]

The Radeon 7000 also has dual-display.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I'm not sure WC3's requirements but Unreal 2 requires a very very powerful system. 1.5 GHz + and a GF2 pro / Radeon + for acceptable performance!

 

[JEDI]

jiffy, where does it say that??? i dont think any game needs a 1.5 ghz to play at 1280x1024x16bit. if that's so, then the makers of the game have cut off alot of their market base (all duron and celeron users).

but i do agree a realistic minimum of gf2 pro/radeon ddr to play 1280x1024x16