whill creative MX card DDR ram be faster?

[Varborta]

I am more concerned on 1024*786 resolution performance.

 

[OuranosEXX]

yes man ti will be faster but creative has polices problems with nvidiacausethe last has given MX to manufactor to use it ONL:Y with SDR not DDR. anyway the perfomance gain from MX sdr would probably be 10-20% at high color high resolution just as Geforce SDR was with Geforce DDR, but if i where u i would definitely go with a Geforce DDR casuse its higer multi-pixel perfomance, and i would o/c it.

 

[Zoomer]

No performance difference.

Keep in mind that ddr is limited to 64bits (path), while sdr can use the full 128bits.

So it just cancels itself out.

However, sdr chips possibly can overclock bertter too.

We'll have to wait for a review by anandtech for confirmation thou...

 

[MustangSVT]

Are u sure there would be no performance difference? i would guess that DDR would improve performance but like u said, bottleneck may be not the rams.
anyways why get Geforce anything when u can get Radeon? hehe

 

[bozack]

why svt? are you thinking of trading in the radeon for a creative mx now?

 

[duragezic]

Yes, from everything I have heard, they will be basically no performance different between 128bit SDR and 64bit DDR.

Why get the Geforce2 MX over the Radeon SDR? Well, it is cheaper since the suggested retail is $150 for the Radeon, while it was $120 for the MX and when the MX came out, many were way over $120. The MX is faster in 16bit though lags behind a little bit in 32bit past 800x600 (?). I'm not sure exactly so you would have the check out Anand's Radeon SDR review.

 

[MustangSVT]

? can't u read my description? i have Radeon DDR. ????
? trading Radeon for MX?! NEVER!!!

 

[duragezic]

Of course I wouldn't get a MX after already owning a Radeon DDR but for someone buying either, the Radeon DDR is about $50 more. For me, that extra $50 is worth it because of the great performance but for others who don't care about performance as much, then the MX is fine.

The current bottleneck in video cards is memory, which is why the GF2 Ultra is so fast since it has 200mhz DDR ram.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

actualy it will be a bit slower than a sdr version. If the chip needs and information that would take 3 clock to get from memory with ddr it wil take 2 clocks = 1 wasted clock. So ddr mx card's will be a bit slower.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I meant it would take 3 sdr clock cycles but 2 ddr clock cycles(witch are equal to 4 sdr clock cycles) so you end up losing some memory bandwith.