[Solved] GeForce GT 240 DDR3 OR DDR5

Which one is the best?

GeForce GT 240 DDR3 1024MB OR DDR5 512MB

Which is the best provider?Wats the latest price?
(XFX,EVGA,PALIT,...etc)

I guess the DDR5 512mb would be better. Still, why would anyone want to buy such an overpriced card considering the alternatives?

Yes I would have to say the DDR5 would be all around better unless you're trying to play at super high resolutions which you shouldn't be getting a GT 240 anyway in my opinion.

IF you're going budget with a 300w PSU than the DDR5 should be good for what you want to do.

You would only need 1 gb ram if you had a giant, or multiple monitors. For the power of this card 512 is all you need. Plus the ddr5 is much better.


Also why is ATI Radeon fan asking us about this? ATI still has way better offerings in this price range.

I have a Samsung 233Sw 1920 x 1080 1080P LCD Monitor,I am not an extreme gamer,Just plays games at 1680x1050 with 2X antialiasing,...




Thanks for all replies

I have a Biostar IDEQ 330P small form factor with a 300w power supply. I'm currently running a GeForce 9500 GT. I can play UT3 at 1280x1024 but have to turn the graphics down. A GT 240 ddr5 should let me play with settings on high. (I have a similar spec. 9600GSO (G92 version) in another system and can play UT3 on high) The GT 240 makes good sense for small form factor systems with limited power supplies and I plan on getting one after the holidays. (Come on Santa, give me money!)

oK,now i am looking at an XFX HD 4850 1GB thanks for ur replies

The HD5770 is equivalent to the HD4870 in terms of performance but it is DX11 compatible and has "eyefinity" which is 3 monitor support. It's also built on a 40nm process which means it has much greater power efficiency and runs cooler. It's a good card for 1920x1080.
It is a 128 bit card but the DDR5 ram makes the memory bandwidth actually slightly higher than 256 bit cards with DDR3, such as the HD4850.

In what game? Even for Crysis it should do significantly better than that.

OOops,Sorry i looked on an an ati 5750! BUt i think its pricy than a 4850

Of course you'll also want to make sure your PSU can handle whatever card you choose.

it might be better though (remember memory bandwidth isn't everything), all of the benchmarks comparing the 2 use an old beta driver for the 5770, and there have been driver improvements. Though i would say by now that they are about equal (4870 was slightly better than 5770 initially)