Radeon HD 4830 vs 4670

4830 vs. 4670, okay need a sub $80 upgrade for my 3rd tower. Any way the stats are different as such the 4830 should be better to my knowledge, but heres the catch. the 8350 has a 256mb mem interface, the 4670 has 128bit, the 4830 is 512mb of gddr3, the 4670 has 1gb of gddr3. anyone know which is better, i have till friday to decide, heres the cards.

4830: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131381

4670: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161315&cm_re=4670-_-14-161-315-_-Product

thankyou

The 4830 will outperform the 4670 by a considerable margin ... good review of the 4830 on Techpowerup.

yeah

i checked out toms hardware charts(which i should have done first) the 4830 beats the 4670. i was just curious if that lack of 512mb of ram compared to the 4670 would actually come into haunt me, i play on a 32" LCD tv atm so it's at 720p, not the highest res but when my new 28" monitor at 1080p gets here i am wondering how well it would handle my games.

I'd still opt for the extra performance, however if you're moving to 1080p it might be a good idea to bump up to something like a 4850. Here's a XFX 1GB 4850 on newegg for $95 after rebate XFX 4850.

the 4670 with 1gb ram is a waste because that card can not make a difference compared to the 4830 in gaming so the ram size doesn't matter.

thanks guys i am gonna go with a 4830 for the moment, and at some point i will do a dual GPU card, sine this system has dual dual cores, so that should allow the full potential of the system.

That's not how it works.

Also, you've got to have another PCIE slot, and a sufficient powersupply.
Come to think of it, you don't mention either of those, but I'm assuming you already checked those out.

why would a need another PCI-e slot for a dual GPU card, not a crossfirex or SLI setup, like a9800 GX2 or a 4670 x2, one slot two GPU's, and i already have a 650watt PSU, but when i upgrade to the dual card i am gonna get a 5.25 power supply just for the card (Since the 2 dual cores in the system can suck down a lot of power)

Oh.
4670X2 sucks btw.
IMO a single card solution is much better for anything less than $300 USD.

Yeah, it needed to said. There are plenty of current generation single gpu cards from either camp that will blow the 4670X2 away ... quite a few for less money.

sorry

i was just using the 4670 x2 as an example, i just thought of it first since i saw it while looking at TH's charts. idk, the 4830 will fit my needs and move past my 9600 GSO, which s all i needed is to make sure i evened out with that or upgraded soo, yeah, we will c what nvidia has out in a few months, and the 4670x2 is two mid level card put together hence why a very high end card would beat it.