Should i get a HD 5770 or a GeForce GTS 250? and what are the differences?

i dont even know what are the differences and just want a card that could play games on maxed settings ^-^



if you know anyother card prices bettween 150-175$ let me know.|||I love this, most games do not even play well with DX10, even on windows7, so why the heck does everyone magically think supporting DX11 is all that. These are the same people that claimed vista sucked rats butts, and wouldn't part ways with xp for vista with DX10. So if they have never played in DX10 they haven't a clue about DX10...

I have a 285GTX MSI Twin fan edition, a very good card. DX10 would play very well in vista, key to DX10 settings is that the highest resolution is 1200x1000, it just has the tweaks turned up, for better lighting and such... Windows7 doesn't play well with the DX10 settings, and many games aren't at the DX11 stages yet.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as… I suggest this 250GTS because of the cooling, even if you don't have a great ventilated case, this card will stay cooler than most. It runs off a single 6pin PCIEx15 connector, which MSI supplies a pigtail to run 2 4pin molex to power the card... The 250GTS is a 256bit card vs the 5770's 128bit. Lets do the math, 128bit more performance for the same price...

Power supply, if you happen to need a little better one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…|||I would go with the HD 5770 performance is close between the cards with the HD 5770 ahead and the HD 5770 overclocks waaay better than the gts 250 and it supports DX11 which the gts 250 does not.



Logic makes it sound like the 256 bit card should be better. The thing is there is much more to it than just that number that make it a more powerful card.





The first thing the bit depth (128 and 256 bit here) relates to is the memory speed. The GTS250 OC has a clock speed of 2240 mHz and the HD 5770 has a speed of 1200 at Quad data rate (a feature of GDDR5).



This gives the cards a bandwidth of:

GTS250 - 71.6 GB/s

HD 5770 - 76.8 GB/s





See how the HD 5770 even with less bit depth actually pushes more data per second than the GTS250?|||You're not going to get much in that range. For maxed out settings, you'll want at least a GeForce 9600.