Thread: Select better graphic card

I installed Vista on my PC and it has onboard graphic card but I need to connect new graphic card in PC for gaming purpose. I have chosen XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 and HIS HD 4890 iCooler x4 graphic cards. So please tell me which is better for my PC. Any help will be appreciated.

I think both graphic cards are good and have same specification. The XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 has support for DirectX 11 where HIS HD 4890 iCooler x4 graphic card support for DirectX 10.1.

Characteristics of XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphic card.

• 1GB GDDR5 memory, ATI Eyefinity technology with support for three displays

• ATI Stream technology, Intended for DirectCompute 11 and OpenCL

• Compliant with DirectX 11 and previous revisions

• Supports OpenGL 3.1

• Dual-mode ATI CrossFireX technology support for really scalable performance

• ATI Avivo HD video, display technology and Accelerated Video Transcoding

• Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology

• DL-DVI, DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI

• PCI Express 2.0 support

Characteristics of HIS HD 4890 iCooler x4 graphic card.

• 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, DirectX 10.1 support,800 stream processing units

• 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering

• Quad mode ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance

• PCI Express 2.0 support, Dynamic geometry acceleration

• Game physics processing ability,

• ATI AvivoTM HD video and display technology, ATI Stream technology

• Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray and HD Video

• Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT),DVD Upscaling

• Dynamic Contrast, Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support

• Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology