GeForce 7300 GS worth buying?

[zzDimaxx]

I found in my local store GeForce 7300 GS 512MB its only 70$ i dont believe my eyes when i saw it. I think maby this Graphic card not that good why its so cheap?
Currently i'm on GeForce 6200 256MB spend on it 90$:hmm:

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: GeForce 7300 GS worth buying?

Moved to Hardware.

It is better than the 6200 but it is still a budget card, it is to compete with the ATI X1300.

[mlkmnz]

Re: GeForce 7300 GS worth buying?

I found in my local store GeForce 7300 GS 512MB its only 70$ i dont believe my eyes when i saw it. I think maby this Graphic card not that good why its so cheap?
Currently i'm on GeForce 6200 256MB spend on it 90$:hmm:

No, its junk, avoid. 512MB of RAM on that graphics card wouldn't be any different than if it had 128MB as the graphics chipset on it just won't do anything more to warrant the RAM. What you have there is a low end chipset which the manufacturer has cleverly put a lot of what is most likely cheap ram to trick new players. Its the chipset that matters, not the ram. As a comparison, it'd be like having a Celeron 1GHz with 2GB of Ram next to a P4 3GHz with 512MB of ram, the celeron won't come close in performance.

For your $90, go buy a second hand 9800 Pro or FX5700/5900, either will be faaaar better than your existing card or that 7300GS. You might even have enough money left over for a bit more system memory.

[-[MDS]-Stormy]

Re: GeForce 7300 GS worth buying?

No, its junk, avoid. 512MB of RAM on that graphics card wouldn't be any different than if it had 128MB as the graphics chipset on it just won't do anything more to warrant the RAM. What you have there is a low end chipset which the manufacturer has cleverly put a lot of what is most likely cheap ram to trick new players. Its the chipset that matters, not the ram. As a comparison, it'd be like having a Celeron 1GHz with 2GB of Ram next to a P4 3GHz with 512MB of ram, the celeron won't come close in performance.

Couldn't agree more. All the 7300GS is is a glorified 5200 with the 7 series core. Inaddition to what mlkmnz said, the card only has a 64 bit memory interface. Here's the specs for it,

GeForce 7300 GS Graphics Bus Technology
PCI Express
Memory Interface 64-bit
Memory Bandwidth 6.5GB/s
Fill Rate (Billion pixels/sec) 2.2
Vertices/Second (Millions) 413
RAMDACs 400MHz

just for fun, here's the numbers for a 5500,

Graphics Core: 256-bit
Memory Interface: 128-bit.
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec.
Fill Rate: 1.1 billion texels/sec.
Vertices/sec.: 68 million
Pixels per Clock (peak): 4
Textures per Pixel:*16
RAMDACs 350 MHz

So if you enjoy playing at 800x600 and everything on low, then the 7300 is for you.

[zzDimaxx]

Re: GeForce 7300 GS worth buying?

hehe thanks for Info guys.
I not gonna buy it :)

[LoD]

Re: GeForce 7300 GS worth buying?

The bible that i swear by.

http://www.neeyik.info/3dspecs/

mmmm yummy, 64 bit memory interface, 3 vertext pipes and wow a total of 4 pixel pipes... this card is smoking!

[-[MDS]-Stormy]

Re: GeForce 7300 GS worth buying?

Nice site. I like this one better though,

http://users.erols.com/chare/video.htm

much easier to read.