omg you guys don't know **** about this card! i mean this is far better than the 9800GT which is a DDR3 card and the GT240 is a GDDR5 and is a lot faster!
Before you go around telling people (and experienced people at that) that they don't know ****, perhaps you should 'learn some **** yourself.
Equipping a card with GDDR5 does not automatically make it faster than another card. there are many other considerations that make up the speed and throughput of a GPU...or any other electronic component for that matter. Like shader units,ROP's, Texture units, bus width , etc so on, and so forth.
the GT240 came 17th in the top 20 gaming cards while the 9800gt came 19th!
What was the criteria for this list?, it certainly was not frame rates. The GT 240 in any form gets its *** beat by the GT 9800 across the board.
yes they do....why don't you try reading them? why...there is one right here at TS that shows the GT 240 coming in behind the GT 9800 in every single bench run.
i tested the 9800gt and the GT240 on the same PC and the GT240 had greater FPS
You really should learn how to benchmark....because you are the only one to reach that conclusion.
and it came to my attention that the 9800gt wasn't able to run GTA 4 on max (it was but with lag) and the GT240 did just fine.
Well aside from the fact that GTA IV is one of the most CPU dependent games in recent memory, do you live in some time bending black hole whereby electronic devices mysteriously change their properties and characteristics when they land in your hands?
Oh here is another mystery... here is the Palit GT 240, equipped with a full 1GB of blazing GDDR5, losing to a lowly GT 9800 that only has a measly 512MB of GDDR3....but how can this be!! oh the humanity!
(hint) adding an extra 512MB of memory to VGA's of this low end of the spectrum is useless in practice...it's just to make you feel good when your buddy has the 512MB version. See there?...you learned something.
and I leave you with the quoted conclusion from PC Perspective's review of both the GDDR3 and GDDR5 version of the GT 240;
As I said in our testing setup page, the GeForce 9800 GT is still a widely available card and in all cases was faster than the GT 240s we tested today.
