GeForce GTS450 or Ati Radeon 5750HD?

Another question from me.



I can't decide between those two.

I watched millions of reviews, both have almost the same performance but

5750HD has larger memory bandwih according to http://www.gpureview.com/Radeon-HD-5750-card-616.html (GTS450 stats-http://www.gpureview.com/GeForce-GTS-450-card-634.html)

and its 10$ cheaper that GTS 450 :D, but GTS450 is cooler looking.



So thats why i need your opinion.|||Well I can easily say that so far through my computer experience I most definitely prefer the GeForce chipset compared to the Radeon standards (just my subjective opinion). However we can compare the GTS 450 and Radeon 5750 more objectively than that. :)



We can take a look at these two links

450: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…

5750: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…



First off the 5750 has 2 DVI ports, a HDMI AND a vga port, while the 450 has the 2 DVI ports and a mini-HDMI connector. VGA ports are much older than the DVI ports, but a VGA port is always nice for an older monitor, however it would rarely be used (unless you have older monitors in your house).



More importantly the 450 has an effective memory clock of 3608MHz, while the 5750 only has an effective memory clock of 1200MHz. Score 1 for the 450 having faster memory clocking speeds. Both memory types are the same at 1GB of GDDR5 with 128 bit interface so those stats are equal.



The 450 has a clock speed of about 420Mhz while the 5750 has a core clock speed of 740Mhz. Score 2 for the 450. However, the 450 only has 192 processing units while the 5750 has a whopping 720 processing units which is a definite score 1 for the 5750.



Overall score:

5750:1

450: 2

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450 wins!



Ok now with all this being said here is my recommendation:

If you plan on doing video editing or having only 1 graphic intense game up at a time I would buy the GTS 450 due to its faster memory (very very important in video editing, pretty important in playing a single game) and due to its faster core clock speed. If you plan on running multiple graphic intense processes at the same time, IE dual boxing video games, playing a video game while editing video (can you even really do that effectively?) then i would buy the 5750.



The advantage to the GTS 450 is that it is able to handle a single graphic intense program better than then 5750, but due to the 5750 having so many processing units, the 5750 should be able to slightly outperform the GTS 450 when multiple graphic intense applications are running in parallel.





Hope this helps a little? Good Luck!



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.|||If i understood right, you recommend 450GTS for gaming,

while 5750HD is better for photoshopping and surfing the web...etc at the same time.

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|||id go with nvidia. personally i think the user interface for nvidia gpu's is much better than that CCC ****|||if given the choice i go nvidia. i like their software better.