FX5800 vs 5900

[sandman38]

Hello
I'm just thinking about updating my video card to something less than $200.
At the moment I have limited it down to....
1- Geforce FX5800 256MB
2- Geforce FX5900 128MB

Any recommendations? Memory over possilble performance increase on the 5900?

Any help would be great and thanks for you time.

 

[entium]

5900xt 128 mb

Memory really doesn't improve performance much.

 

[cleeve]

The 5800's memory performance will actually be much slower than the 5900's, because it's memory interface is 128-bit and not 256-bit.

256 megs does nothing over 128 megs, BTW. A 128 meg 5900 would still beat a 5800, even if the 5800 had 1000 megs of onboard RAM.

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