Radeon HD 4650 or GF PX8800 ?

[operator]

I won a new screencard in a contest. But I have no clue if it's better than the one I allready have.

The one I have:
*WinFast PX8800 GTS TDH 320MB

The one I won:
*Radeon HD 4650 512MB DDR2

What do you think ?

 

[Gilles]

I would go with the 4650 personally. It's either or though, I doubt you'll see a huge difference.
Although you might be able to get more money for the new card, and keep the old one.

Do you only have 1 GPU slot?

 

[operator]

Nope, got one left. . Can I get them to work together somehow ? Cause it has crossed my mind.

 

[Samuraid]

The 8800GTS 320MB is slightly faster than the Radeon 4650. The Radeon will consume less power though.

And no, you can't quite use them together in the same machine. You could use the separately in the same machine though (i.e. running different screens).

 

[Gilles]

What motherboard do you have? It will either support Crossfire (ATI), or SLI (nVidia). Sell one, and buy a matching card to run two cards together.

Or do what Samuraid said, but I'm doubting you have two monitors.

]The 8800GTS 320MB is slightly faster than the Radeon 4650.

Really? I wouldn't have thought that. I know the 4670 is definitely faster than the 8800GTS, and I figured the 4650 would be too. I thought it would be a little worse than the 9800GT 1GB.

 

[Samuraid]

Really? I wouldn't have thought that. I know the 4670 is definitely faster than the 8800GTS, and I figured the 4650 would be too. I thought it would be a little worse than the 9800GT 1GB.

Well, there are two variants of 8800GTS. The 320MB/640MB ones are slower than the 512MB variant. Are you sure you are not thinking of the Radeon 4870 for your comparison? (your card, which is definitely faster than all of them. )

 

[Gilles]

No, no, I wasn't thinking of my card.

I wasn't sure about the 4650, but from the rankings I've seen, the 4670 is better than both the 8800GTS, and the 9800 GT.

 

[Samuraid]

Here's a good general comparison. It ranks the 8800 GTS 320MB as slightly slower than the 4670. However, the 4650 is slower than the nVidia card in question.
Conclusion - Review Tom's Hardware : Best Graphics Cards For The Money: March '09

 

[Gilles]

Ahh, good link.

 

[Reaper2008]

I have Radeon 4670. It's a good card, much faster than my old one, which was nVIDIA 8600 GT. Results may differ with these cards, but if you play old games the radeon is your only choice. nVIDIA just kills old graphic engines :S

 

[BlargHonk]

It depends on whether you have a GDDR3 or GDDR2