Vram amount vs Memory Bandwith?

whats your budget, are you planning on gaming? Due to those low profile gaming cards, you most liking going to gaming on 1280x1024 or less, so 512 should be fine. High memory Bandwidth is better for video cards that have much higher than 1gb, it always better performance instead of being bottlenecked.

I mostly do MSoffice,Photoshop and multimedia (ripping,recording netflix,encoding)
With my HD 4650 I play Bioshock high settings/1920x1080,left for dead high settings/no AA 1920x1080 and Crysis Warhead 1280x1024 mainstream settings.
So I figure the HD5670 will be fine.
I know with GDDR5 the bandwith is faster and so is memory clock speed.
Since I OC my card I figure the 512mb GDDR5 would be better but I wanted some opiniions.
I am not even sure if the HD 5670 will take advantage of 1gb vram or not even at 1920x1080
In general if you have a choice between GDDR5 512mb or ddr3 1gb which you you picfk?

budget is under $100 USD.
For my needs I really dont want to spend too much

GDDR5 is a little over kill for multimedia,office and Photoshop. I'd just go for the 1GB  

Good deal
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

need a low profile
i was thinking of this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
though I am going to hold off for awhile and watch the prices on 5670s and hope they drop a little.

I know that with my HD4650 1gb it doesnt take advantage of the
Vram it has according to alot of posts I have seen from members I respect.
So I am not sure if with the 5670 if it will use the 1gb effectively.
With Gddr5 I can really overclock the memory hard compared to DDR3

hd 4670 with ddr2 is real crap.if you have a budget of $100.then you can have many choices kindly tell us your powersupply!and its brand.

The question of the thread is which is more important
Vram or Memory bandwith.

I am already set on a HD 5670 after reading all the reviews
including Toms Best video card articles where they pick 5670 as top choice under $100.

Would you rather have 512mb GDDR5 or 1gb DDR3 is the question?

Memory bandwidth is more important for the HD 5670. Below is a link to an Axle Radeon HD 5670 1GB DDR5 review. One of the card it is reviewed against is a typical HD 5670 512MB DDR5 card. There are hardly any difference in the game benchmarks which indicates that the extra 512MB only improves performance by 2 frames at best and typically less than 1 frame on average. Therefore, the extra 512MB of DDR5 RAM is more or less worthless unless the price difference is very, very small.

1GB of DDR3 RAM may actually lower the performance since DDR3 has lower bandwidth than DDR5. If price was the same, then 512MB of DDR5 without a doubt.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/axle-rad...

Note that there is a typo in the review in the "Axle Radeon HD 5670 1GB GDDR3" introduction. It does indeed use DDR5.

I am completely agree with this.1gb ddr3 is worse than 512mb ddr5.less bandwidth,less clock and less memory speed.

Thanks for the replies.
Everything I have been reading online was saying the same thing.
I figure that with the Gddr5 I can also get a stronger memory OC also.
I bought a HD4650 1gb a few months ago but I knew the Vram was
wasted but the card was cheap so I didnt care.
I wasnt sure whether the HD 5670 would take advantage of extra ram
or not
so this answers my question.
Thanks again for the replies

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