sirantonycartw
Geek Trainee
Hi,
Please don't answer by saying look at benchmarks, that's really not what I'm looking for.
What I want to know is. How can you tell how good it is by looking at the specs?
I used to compare the fillrates... the higher the fillrate, the better the card but I'm starting to understand that technically, fillrate doesn't always relate to the cards performance. How can a card with a lower fillrate be a better performer than a card with a lower fillrate? It's true because you can see it in benchmarks.
So, what I'm asking is, please could somebody explain how to tell which cards are good?
For example:
Gfx card 1 has 500mhz core, 1000mhz shader and 1000mhz memory.. it has a fillrate of 2gt/s..
Gfx card 2 has 600mhz core, 1200mhz shader and 1200mhz memory.. it has a fillrate of 1.6gt/s..
How can card 1 have a better fillrate??? Surely card 2 would have a better fillrate as its specs are higher?
Also that brings me onto benchmarks... card 2 may perform better in benchmarks..
I just don't understand it.
Please can anyone explain how you can determine how good a card is by reading the specs.. just for the sake of being able to compare them???
Cheers!
Please don't answer by saying look at benchmarks, that's really not what I'm looking for.
What I want to know is. How can you tell how good it is by looking at the specs?
I used to compare the fillrates... the higher the fillrate, the better the card but I'm starting to understand that technically, fillrate doesn't always relate to the cards performance. How can a card with a lower fillrate be a better performer than a card with a lower fillrate? It's true because you can see it in benchmarks.
So, what I'm asking is, please could somebody explain how to tell which cards are good?
For example:
Gfx card 1 has 500mhz core, 1000mhz shader and 1000mhz memory.. it has a fillrate of 2gt/s..
Gfx card 2 has 600mhz core, 1200mhz shader and 1200mhz memory.. it has a fillrate of 1.6gt/s..
How can card 1 have a better fillrate??? Surely card 2 would have a better fillrate as its specs are higher?
Also that brings me onto benchmarks... card 2 may perform better in benchmarks..
I just don't understand it.
Please can anyone explain how you can determine how good a card is by reading the specs.. just for the sake of being able to compare them???
Cheers!
