Is the 7900GTO a upgrade from GT 430?

[sisrace]

Hi, my father just came home with a 7900GTO card from his job because they didnt need it.
Since its old i cant find any comparisons and im waiting for a "new" power supply with 6Pin power connector to be able to even run the card from my father wo has one laying around at his job too..

So i wonder if its even worth "upgrading" to the 7900GTO when the computer currently has a GT 430
Its really old but i understood that it was one of the top of the line cards in its time.
My little brother who uses the computer im trying to "upgrade" will be playing; Minecraft, Heavily Modded minecraft, NFS SHIFT, NFS UNDERCOVER, Skyrim.

The computer do need a gpu upgrade because even at the lowest settings Skyrim is not playable (<15fps MAX)
He wont be playing any "new" games so GPU AGE doesent really matter...

 

[RoasterMen]

GT 430 is weaker than the 7900 GTO, But because of the features, it runs much faster. I'd say it's a big upgrade.

 

[sisrace]

GT 430 is weaker than the 7900 GTO, But because of the features, it runs much faster. I'd say it's a big upgrade.

Features?

Oh and also, i found a used 5850 on the swedish "ebay" (Blocket) for 30 euro, with a bad HDMI port.
If the 7900 GTO is not powerful enough that is..

 

[RoasterMen]

I'd go for a used HD 5850 because really, the 7900 GTO is just a high-end DX 9.0c and even a GTX 750 Ti outperforms it by a big margin.

 

[Lava King]

According to the Passmark GPU Benchmark list, the HD 5850 is by far the better card.


Here's the scores (higher is better)

GeForce 7900 GTO: 245

GeForce GT 430: 650

Radeon HD 5850: 2274



Keep in mind that this is a synthetic benchmark and may not reflect the performance you will get on a specific application or game.

In my personal experience, the benchmark favors Nvidia but still seems to be accurate enough.

 

[sisrace]

According to the Passmark GPU Benchmark list, the HD 5850 is by far the better card.


Here's the scores (higher is better)

GeForce 7900 GTO: 245

GeForce GT 430: 650

Radeon HD 5850: 2274



Keep in mind that this is a synthetic benchmark and may not reflect the performance you will get on a specific application or game.

In my personal experience, the benchmark favors Nvidia but still seems to be accurate enough.

Games like dirt 3 wont even start with the card, But while playing skyrim at medium the card is at 40% load, but it feel like im playing on a packet of butter. Reason? 512MB of GDDR3 isnt really very suffiecent even at low settings at a lower resolution... The memory is always overloaded even if i overclocked the card to its limits with a quite good gain in performance... I guess a 6year old high end directx 9 card doesent really have too much to offer in this time..

 

[RoasterMen]

It doesn't have anything to offer in any GAMES AT ALL. It's either stick with GT 430 running low settings or HD 5850 and run it at medium.