HD 5800 and GTX 400 series are awesome. But did you know that the real rulers of the world are not those fast video card? While high-end VGA fight for the title of "fastest", the real competition would occur in the middle class. Unlike the high-end segment of the market which share small, low-end mainstream segment can be regarded as the largest share of the video card market. No wonder if NVIDIA and ATI are also vying issued a product to attract the attention of prospective buyers in this segment. Competition is a sweet fruit for consumers. Nowadays, you can find a lot of low end VGA-quality mainstream which is priced at an affordable price. Which one is right for you? Consider the following article!
In recent months, both ATI and NVIDIA graphics chipset launched many variants to capture market share mainstream low end. Understandably, VGA-class mainstream low end is kind of the most sold in the world, including Asian countries. The number of sales impact on the range of products and brands that are very much anyway. Therefore, for testing and facilitate to make t simple for you to choose, we will see what options are available based on the price range VGA and chipset (GPU) uses.
Price range that offers a balance of price-performance of the most attractive in the low-end mainstream segment may be in the range 50$ to 100$. Why? The consideration is simple. In the market today, at below the price of 60$ you will only find old VGA chipset that is not worth fighting, to run battlefield graphics in the present. While the price difference VGA at a price above the price of USD 120 was too high for the performance difference which is not much.
In addition, the price range is currently filled by a lot of products with a new GPU VGA that is quite strong but power saving. The majority of this new Video card no longer require an additional power supply of connectors 6-pin PIC-Express. This is their main advantages compared to previous generations. Instead of buying an old video card that takes a lot of power, more profitable if the same amount of money spent on a new faster card, more up-to-date, and more power efficient. Therefore, we focused on testing new VGA chipset. Based on the criteria and price range as well as the actuality of power efficiency of the product, there are some VGA chipset that fall into this category, here they are:
A. GeForce GT 220 with GDDR3 RAM,
This is the first chipset from NVIDIA GPU made with a 40nm fabrication process. GT 220 has 2 options a combination of memory: DDR2 and GDDR3. You can find a VGA GT 220 uses DDR2 or GDDR3 on the market, so be careful, do not be fooled. We chose GDDR3 variant because its performance is far enough above the premises DDR2 variants, for the difference in price is relatively few (less than USD 10).
B. GeForce GT 240 with GDDR3 RAM,
Same with the "brother", the GT 240 is also made using the 40nm fabrication process. It also has several different types of memory options, like DDR3, GDDR3, and GDDR5. The reason we disqualify choose with DDR3 memory as before, the performance difference is too small to justify the price difference to the type that are one level above it.
C. GeForce GT 240 with GDDR5 RAM
Variants of the GeForce GT 240 is the highest class comes with GDDR5 memory. Although the capacity of its smaller RAM (512MB, compared to variant DDR3 1GB / GDDR3), its performance is far above his armed GDDR3 RAM. RAM capacity does not affect the performance of the VGA. In this case, the speed and bandwidth is the one who determines the RAM.
D. Radeon HD 4670
Chip Radeon HD 4670 series is not exactly new, in fact tend to be quite old. However, prices continue to fall makes it a pretty attractive option. Support in terms of graphics and power efficiency features, it is still comparable to the GeForce GT 220 and GT 240. Moreover, the performance in this class are still able to compete with other newer chipset.
E. Radeon HD 5670 (1 GB GDDR5)
Here it is the newcomer who kicked off with the support DirectX11 and relatively high performance for its price class. We chose the option of HD 5670 with 1GB of memory. For information, available on the market are also variants with 512MB of memory with the price difference that is quite different.
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