Looking to upgrade from ati x1950xt

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Yes. I would recommend that card as well.

$100 doesn't give you very many choices. It is enough to buy a 512MB HD 5670; the 1GB HD 5760 is a little over $100 and benchmarks have shown that extra VRAM makes very little difference in performance. It will be faster than your X1950XT; but it is less powerful than the HD 4850.

The $100 puts you in striking distance of the HD 5750, but you need to toss in round another $20 - $25 to buy one. It is nearly as fast as the HD 4850 (less than 5% difference), but it consumes less than half the power and supports DX11.

What resolution is your monitor?
If its over 1680*1050, consider a 1GB, under that, 512 would be adequate.

Welcome to the world of the HD 5770. No need to worry about 512MB or 1GB of VRAM 'cause they start at 1GB.

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Generally speaking 1GB provide better performance than 512MB starting at around 1680 x 1050. Based on benchmarks, the HD 5670 is not fast enough to take advantage of the 512MB even at 1920x1200 resolution.

For reference purposes, the HD 5770 is nearly as fast as the older HD 4870 (within 5%), but uses about 70w compared to 120w, and it supports DX11.

The HD 5670 is about 25% more powerful than the HD 4670 and consumes less power, but is less powerful than the HD 4770.