I will have to disagree, both cards will perform well, but the GT 220 is much better than the 9800 as you see here:
Power Trip vs here:
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT: supercharge your graphics horsepower with this GPU at the perfect price and performance combination.
You'll be able to play new games on medium settings on a Full HD screen.
That is so utterly wrong. A GT220 is
NOT better than a 9800GT.
Go look at the benchmark scores; and also go read some reviews that pit the two cards against each other. The 9800GT consistently scores significantly better in benchmarks, and runs every game at much higher framerates than the GT220 does.
The proof is in the pudding. Go look at the numbers. The 9800GT is a more powerful card than the GT220. Period. End of story. No question about it.
Thanks to all
Ok 220 cancle
now 250 and 9800
which 1 is better
What about Direct X?How it effect games?
The 250 is better than the 9800GT, as I said before, because it has higher clock speeds and more stream processors.
DirectX is... well, I could type page after page describing it, but all you need to know is higher versions of DirectX are better.
If, for example, you have an operating system that supports DirectX 10, and a graphics card that supports DirectX 10, and a game that is capable of taking advantage of DirectX 10 features, then that game will look slightly prettier/more realistic than it would if you were running a graphics card that only supported DirectX 9.
To put it simply, higher DirectX versions aren't that important as far as the actual power of a graphics card is concerned; but having a higher DirectX version can
potentially make games look a little bit prettier.
Buy the GTS 250. You won't be disappointed
One warning... I have the Palit GTS 250 shown at this Newegg link, and it is not a "regular" GTS 250. It is an energy-saving, downclocked version called the Palit 250 Green. The shader clock on this model is only 1512 mhz compared to 1800-something for a normal GTS 250. The core clock and memory are also down a few percent from a standard GTS 250. I'd try to find a different model of GTS 250.
Ah, Nice eye, Zathras! I didn't notice that.
That particular GTS250, even with its lower clock speeds, is still a much better card than a 9800GT.
@Key4You - That Palit GTS250 that I linked to is still much more powerful/better than the 9800GT, but if you want a "full blown" GTS250,
then it looks like this one is your best bet. If you don't want to spend $125 on a card, then get the Palit one - if you'd like an additional 15% or so performance increase over the Palit card, then get that ECS one that I just now linked to. They're both great cards, you'll be very satisfied with either one, but the ECS one is a bit more powerful. It's up to you, now, to decide
