Well the information I present here will likely yield to a simpler question, as in which one of my graphics cards are better, but I'm not sure what I should be looking at in comparison.
(When I say clock speed I'm referring to the graphics clock speed)
Basically I still haven't been able to upgrade to a new GTX card which I was asking about in another thread some time ago, but I have multiple cards laying around and I'm just not sure if I should pay more attention to the amount of CUDA cores, the clock speed, or the VRAM more or less.
As you can see in my signature I'm currently running a 9600 GT. Although it's a special one, it has 1 GB of VRAM, and it's factory overclocked to 700 MHz.
Here are some of the other cards I have lying around somewhere:
Two NVIDIA 9800 GT cards. (can run in SLI) Although I believe they need new fans or something as they had some problems.
One NVIDIA 8800 GTX
Another NVIDIA 9600 GT that has less VRAM and a normal clock speed (not optimal to run in SLI with my current card)
The 8800 GTX has double the CUDA cores (128) of my current card but has a slower clock speed of 575 MHz as well as only 768 MB of VRAM. Although I've been led to believe the 512 MB of VRAM is all that any modern game may ever use depending on resolution, which I currently use one DVI monitor at 1680x1050.
The 9800 GT has almost double the CUDA cores (112) yet has only a clock speed of 600 MHz
Both the 9800 and 8800 have a higher texture fill rate than my current. The 8800 has a greater memory bandwidth as well.
Basically I need to know which one would be best overall to go with without buying a new card?
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(Side hardware question, would I benefit from Dolphin by pushing my i7 2600k up to 4.0 GHz from 3.7 GHz?)
(When I say clock speed I'm referring to the graphics clock speed)
Basically I still haven't been able to upgrade to a new GTX card which I was asking about in another thread some time ago, but I have multiple cards laying around and I'm just not sure if I should pay more attention to the amount of CUDA cores, the clock speed, or the VRAM more or less.
As you can see in my signature I'm currently running a 9600 GT. Although it's a special one, it has 1 GB of VRAM, and it's factory overclocked to 700 MHz.
Here are some of the other cards I have lying around somewhere:
Two NVIDIA 9800 GT cards. (can run in SLI) Although I believe they need new fans or something as they had some problems.
One NVIDIA 8800 GTX
Another NVIDIA 9600 GT that has less VRAM and a normal clock speed (not optimal to run in SLI with my current card)
The 8800 GTX has double the CUDA cores (128) of my current card but has a slower clock speed of 575 MHz as well as only 768 MB of VRAM. Although I've been led to believe the 512 MB of VRAM is all that any modern game may ever use depending on resolution, which I currently use one DVI monitor at 1680x1050.
The 9800 GT has almost double the CUDA cores (112) yet has only a clock speed of 600 MHz
Both the 9800 and 8800 have a higher texture fill rate than my current. The 8800 has a greater memory bandwidth as well.
Basically I need to know which one would be best overall to go with without buying a new card?
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(Side hardware question, would I benefit from Dolphin by pushing my i7 2600k up to 4.0 GHz from 3.7 GHz?)
[color=#FF4500][color=#ff00ff]Dolphin: 4.0-1767[/color]
MOBO: MSI Z87M Gaming[/color]
[color=#1E90FF]CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K OC'd @ 4.2 GHz[/color]
[color=#32CD32]GPU: EVGA GTX 660 Ti[/color]
[color=#FF0000]RAM: Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133[/color] [color=#ff0000]MHz[/color]
[color=#000080]OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit; SteamOS
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MOBO: MSI Z87M Gaming[/color]
[color=#1E90FF]CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4770K OC'd @ 4.2 GHz[/color]
[color=#32CD32]GPU: EVGA GTX 660 Ti[/color]
[color=#FF0000]RAM: Ripjaws X 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133[/color] [color=#ff0000]MHz[/color]
[color=#000080]OS: Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit; SteamOS
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