VGA Ram

[Soul Assassin]

Which would be better 256mb DDR3 or 512mb DDR2?

 

[nGAGEd55]

256mb DDR3 IMO

 

[Reptile2025]

yes, ddr3 would be the better option, much faster. think i'm a bit behind, running 2 x 7600gs extreme 256MB cards in sli - ddr2, all games playable, so no worries

 

[Nokkie]

no wonder my card still runs fast it's a x800xt platinum with 256 DDR3 and almost a year old

 

[ShockG]

People its not the type but the speed.
500MHz GDDR3 is slower than 800MHz GDDR2.
500MHz GDDR3 is same speed as 450~470MHz GDDR2!

Advantage of GDDR3 is that its much much cooler than GDDR2 (you can run upto 1900MHz+ without cooling. Has lower voltage requirments, low termination voltage, better strobe signaling etc... Hence can scale much farther. (Also due to even less restrictive timings compared to DDR1/GDDR2)

Having said that go with the faster ram

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

Nope, i would also go with the 256MB DDR3. It's faster, and cooler. No need to even put PASSIVE cooling on DDR3. In my second machine i also have a X800XT Platinum Edition and it's got no cooling whatsoever on the RAM, and it's a speedy card.

 

[ShockG]

But how do you know its faster? he said 256MB vs 512MB, he said nothing about speed...

 

[DAE_JA_VOO]

No, he said 256MB OF DDR3 or 512MB OF DDR2. There's quite a difference there.

But like i said, the difference lies mostly in power consumption and heat.

GDDR2 Wiki

GDDR3 Wiki

 

[ShockG]

i would also go with the 256MB DDR3. It's faster,

Yes but how is it faster? For the same clock speed it isn't faster