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Tough question.

 

For The Dark Mod it would be 9800GSm because it has nearly double the texture fill-rate.

 

For Shader-Math heavy games it would be gt540m because it has 96 cores (verses only 64 in the 9800).

 

Most games are disproportionately texture heavy so probably the 9800 unless you're trying to play Crysis 2 or Metro (etc).

 

The gt540m is DX11 so, with the added shaders, it is more future proof but will be a low-end card very shortly while the 9800 is a decent card now and will still have muscle a little longer. It's anyone's guess when game developers will stop making DX10 backward-compatible games verses when they will stop making games that scale well to 28Gb per second memory band-width.

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Tough question.

 

For The Dark Mod it would be 9800GSm because it has nearly double the texture fill-rate.

 

For Shader-Math heavy games it would be gt540m because it has 96 cores (verses only 64 in the 9800).

 

Most games are disproportionately texture heavy so probably the 9800 unless you're trying to play Crysis 2 or Metro (etc).

 

The gt540m is DX11 so, with the added shaders, it is more future proof but will be a low-end card very shortly while the 9800 is a decent card now and will still have muscle a little longer. It's anyone's guess when game developers will stop making DX10 backward-compatible games verses when they will stop making games that scale well to 28Gb per second memory band-width.

 

I second that opinion... I got a gtx550ti recently, and it was only marginally better for TDM and WoW than my old 8800GTS was. I knew better, but was trying not to spend too much money. I should have saved for another month and gone with something better than even a 560. Basically, in nvidia's new numbering scheme, the x40-x50 cards are 'budget' cards with narrower memory bandwidth, the x60's are mid-range and the x70-x80's are the performers.

System: Mageia Linux Cauldron, aka Mageia 8

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