Hi, I was thinking of buying one of these two cards and dont really know which is better by looking at the specs. Could someone please tell me which card will give me the better performance. Thanks in advance. Graphics Processor: ATI Radeon X1600PRO Processor Frequency: 500 MHz Rendering Pipelines: 12 pixel pipelines Exchange Interface Memory/Processor: 128-bit Memory: 512 MB Bus: AGP 4x, AGP 8x Memory Frequency: 800 MHz DirectX 3D Hardware: DirectX 9 OpenGL: OpenGL 2.0 RAMDAC: 400 MHz Outlets: VGA/DVI/TV ------------------------------------------------------------- Graphics Processor: ATI RADEON X800 GTO Processor Frequency: 400MHz Rendering Pipelines: 12 Pixel Pipelines Exchange Interface Memory/Processor: 256-bit Memory: 256 MB Bus: AGP/4x/8x Memory Frequency: 490 MHz DirectX 3D Hardware: DirectX 9.0 OpenGL: - RAMDAC: 400 MHz Outlets: VGA/DVI/S-Video
umm yeh id kinda go wiv the x1600 pro which i reckon is quite good, i think my cusin has it he says its quite decent
Ok. Easy one here. It is my personal opinion here that the X800 series is better than all X1000 series GPU's except for X1800 and higher. Even just being my opinion it is definitely true on this one. The X1600Pro is an ok card but you would definitely be better off with the X800GTO(see my sig) The X1600Pros have almost no driver support so in some games they take a dive. CoD2 is absolutely horrible on an X1600Pro as it constantly gets speeds of 4 to 12 frames per second on the lowest settings on 800x600. My X800GTO gets constant speeds of 50fps or more on highest detail settings at 1024x768. Shader model 3.0 does yield a small performance increase but it is useless on the X1600 series as they have sub par performence no matter what. The X8xx series is top-notch. To make it short... X800GTO fo' sho'.
Basically an x1600 pro is the equivalent of an x700 pro except it has SM3 support. However, the x1600 pro even with the 512MB frame buffer is not going to be enough to utilize next gen graphics or HDR unless if you use low resolutions. The x800GTO should outperform it by quite a bit. It has a 256bit bus vs. 128 bit. The frame buffer of 256MB is more than enough for a video card. More frame buffer is only needed when you play games in very high resolutions with high settings and extra large textures. This is something you cannot do with the x1600pro, so the large buffer is not needed.
