What is the best PCI video card? Radeon X1550 or HD 2400Pro?

Question

I need the best PCI video card for gaming. I know that the PCI
interface is horrible for gaming, but this is for a little experiment of mine. It looks like PowerColor just put out a Radeon HD 2400Pro for the PCI bus. Before I was looking at getting HIS Hightech's X1550. Here are the specs for both cards:

HIS Hightech X1550:

Fabrication Process: 80nm
Core Clock: 550MHz
Memory Clock: 800MHz (effective)
Memory Type: 256mb DDR2
Memory Interface: 64-bit
Fill rate: 2.2GPixal/s
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4GB/s

PowerColor HD 2400 Pro:

Fabrication Process: 65nm
Core Clock: 525MHz
Memory Clock: 800MHz (effective)
Memory Type: 256mb DDR2
Memory Interface: 64-bit
Fill rate: 2.1GPixal/s
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4GB/s

If anyone knows for a fact which one is better for gaming please let me know. And once again, I know that PCI bus is definitely not the way to go for serious gaming. This is for my own kicks. Which is the best? And what PCIe cards perform similarly to these PCI cards? Thank you.

Answer 1

Speed wise they are pretty similar in their clock speed, their fill rates and their memory bandwidth.



Which is better, kind of splitting hairs on that one. I would personally choose the HD2400 Pro as I've put a couple in systems I've built and am using one now. I have played a couple of games on them but nothing too taxing. The biggest advantage of the HD2400 is for HD video playback which it is awesome at while the 1550 will suck at it.



Past that the HD2400 uses a smaller die (65nm vs 80nm) which means it will make less heat and use less power. Both good things in my books.



That PCI bus is a real dog for video though. Just so you are aware before you try and use it:



Max throughput to PCI bus is 133MB/sec

Max to an AGP 8x card is 1024MB/sec

Max to a PCIe card is 2048MB/sec

Max to a PCIe 2.0 card is 4096MB/sec



That 133 bottleneck is pretty stiff compared to the regular PCIe bottleneck of 2048.



Your call though and that HDMI output on the 2400PRO can make a huge difference if you are trying to make a multimedia machine.

Answer 2

The HD 2400 is a decend card for the money yet there are extra powerful enjoying cards for slightly extra. in case you like ATI, there is the HD 2600 that could desire to be slightly extra funds (approximately $30). in spite of the indisputable fact that, the HD 3850 is approximately $2 hundred and is plenty extra powerful then the two the 2400 and 2600. in case you are able to handle to pay for $250-3 hundred, you will get the ATI 3870, yet another good card. With nVidia, 8800 GT or extra advantageous are good enjoying cards. in spite of the indisputable fact that, you would be paying plenty extra for those enjoying cards (beginning at $3 hundred+). the only difficulty that i might advise is which you get a card with 512mb ram. that's the recent requirement for video enjoying cards as lots of the recent video games require dissimilar ram on the enjoying cards to accomplish great.

Answer 3

Better get Powercolor HD 2400 Pro this have more smaller nm.U must know,the specs of graphic card not only on its specations but also on nanometer cause the smaller nm,the powerful graphic card.