128mb And 256mb Video Cards

[Keikan]

OK I've been looking at this and I saw a sapphire radeon 9600pro 128 and 256. So i'm thinking would the 256 be even a little more faster than the 128 or just completely slower than 128?

[Virtualbody1234]

Check the RAM specs. Some higher MB models use slower RAM.

[GrubMe]

In the future games to come, it would have to use the 256.
I have a video card that does have 128M works great .

[Keikan]

Actually what about the 9600xt? that store is selling a sapphire 9600xt 128mb for only $229!!! w00t! the 256 sucks you guys are right again. the 128 says 500/325mhz is that good?

[tesco]

Originally posted by Keikan@15 March 2004 - 19:40
Actually what about the 9600xt? that store is selling a sapphire 9600xt 128mb for only $229!!! w00t! the 256 sucks you guys are right again. the 128 says 500/325mhz is that good?

ya its good, dont buy the 256mb because by the time 256mb video ram is actually needed you will probably be buying a faster video card anyway, plus the higher sized ram is usually slower.

[harrycary]

Having more memory on a graphics card mainly helps save resources(mobo memory).

Why waste your system memory processing video data?

But, having more memory on a graphics card will not necessarily create a performance increase. Especially if you have alot of system memory.

/my 2 cents

[atiVidia]

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