Kasz216 said:
Not really no. It depends on the game. For something like Braid or a FPS it's better... for something computer intensive though like Civilization or a RTS... DDR3 would be better. There you need DDR3's better latency to process all the PC moves that you mostly don't even see due to fog of war. Ever play a Civ game with a shitty CPU but good graphcis card? You can be waiting a whole hour for the damn PC to finish it's moves. But my point was, GDDR5 has better bandwith and worse latency. One moves faster while the other can carry more per movement. It's like a difference between a racecar and a truck... and GDDR5 is the truck. DDR3 is faster. GDDR5 can process more at once. Meaning for games where you just have the graphics show up, and they basically stay that way. GDDR5 is better. For games where you need to make tons of trips where there are tons and tons of decisions being made one right after another. DDR3 is better.
Not that it should make THAT much of a difference anyway. |
GDDR5 will always be better than DDR3 for games.
There's a reason why AMD/Nvidia use GDDR5 memory in their graphics cards.. its because the GPU will always benefit from higher bandwidth. Latency will not hinder a GPU's peformance as much as being throttled by low bandwith. The inclusion of ESRAM in the Nextbox to balance out the shortcomings of DDR3 says it all really.
